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Christopher Miller

Question: When using FontLab, I can be a true guideline freak. However, I cannot seem to shake one ongoing frustration: when I go to pull out a guideline, many times it is crooked at some odd angle and I am forced to go through the right-click, drag-down, hit align process. What causes this (I realize once you draw a crooked guideline, every subsequent one drawn will be the same angle), and is there a way I can eliminate even being able to draw anything BUT a perfectly straight guideline?

And in translation for those fans of the utterly concise:

Me. Love guidelines. Always crooked. Dammit. Need solution.

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Tim Ahrens

I suggest to drag a pair of guidelines from the square where the two rulers meet. These guidelines will be horizontal and vertical respecitvely. Then, move them. Delete them. Subsequent guidelines you drag out of the rulers will be exactly horizontal or vertical, too.
Note that FL gives new guides the angle of the last guide you touched.

Christopher Miller

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