Settings - Header - Overview

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Global and horizontal layout information about the font is found on the Header page (Settings window). On the Format menu, click Settings, and then click the Header tab.

Version

Set by the font manufacturer.

Note: For historical reasons, the Font revision version is not used by Windows to determine the version of a font. Instead, Windows evaluates the version string from the Naming window.

Font Header Flags

This field is used to specify the global information about the font. Press the Edit button to modify this field through the Font Header Flags window.

Font direction hint

Select the appropriate field. Most Latin fonts have this value set to Only strong left to right.

Note: A neutral character has no inherent directionality; it is not a character with zero (0) width. Spaces and punctuation are examples of neutral characters. Non-neutral characters are those with inherent directionality. For example, Roman letters (left-to-right) and Arabic letters(right-to-left) have directionality. In a "normal" Roman font where spaces and punctuation are present, the font direction hints should be set to Strong left to right, contains neutrals.

Units Per Em

Valid range is from 16 to 16384. This value should be a power of 2 for fonts that have TrueType outlines. Nowadays 2048 units per em value is the best value for all fonts of any size including large Latin or non-Latin script fonts.

This value is used to convert values in the pixel coordinate system by multiplying them by a scale. This scale is:

pointSize * resolution / ( 72 points per inch * units_per_em )

Smallest read. size

Smallest readable size in pixels. Most fonts have this value set to 9.

Created

The date and time the font was created, press the Now button to set these fields to the current date and time.

Modified

The date and time the font was last modified, press the Now button to set these fields to the current date and time.