Sometimes a flag may be raised for something that’s not really an error. For example, FontAudit reports if a curve is nearly flat, and can fix the problem by replacing it with a straight line. If you really want slightly tapered curves in your font, turn off the “Nearly flat curve” test in the Preferences and FontAudit will no longer complain.
Each flag requires human judgement to determine what the next step should be. However, once you’ve determined which are errors that need correcting, you can use the FontAudit action to automagically resolve the problems in all or selected glyphs in one step — a huge time saver! (Figure 3). If you turn on all tests and fix them all, your font may become too “regularized”, so it’s best to fix one type of problem at a time, or maybe a few.
Accountants are not so lucky. They have to go back and fix their own mistakes by hand once an auditor points them out. But typographers can do it with just a few clicks of a button.
Figure 3. The FontAudit table lists all the potential problem spots with the option to automatically fix them.
