When the progress dialog disappears, the 3DO FontWriter displays four windows:

• Character Edit window
• Preview window
• Character Map
• Sample Text window

This section provides an overview of the Character Edit window. A detailed discussion of all windows is provided in Chapter 2.

The Character Edit window lets you display and edit a number of individual characters in the font. It provides:

• The currently displayed character, and its ASCII code in the top-left corner.
• Drawing tools for editing characters.
• A pop-up color selector below the drawing tools.
• The current image selector.
• A display of an anti-aliased character for editing.

Figure 1: FontWriter Character Edit window.

You can specify which character to view by:

• Typing the character.
• Using the scroll bar.
• Selecting the character from the Character Map, which you can display using the View menu.

For a font with outlines or shadows, use the current image selector to choose the actual character image (top) or the shadow/outline image (bottom).