There was a time when I was certain of the number and location of control poiunts in a given character in a typeface I'd use, because Program X or Program Y flashed a little thing on its splash screen "reading font metrics"...

Does Xara even read font metrics at all?

The reason I ask it that frequently I need to modify a glyph to make a logo or something. And Xara Designer 11 produces way more control points than I'd expect or want whenever I do the Ctrl+Shift+S thing:

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This is a fair comparison above: Here'a glyph shown with its original control points in FontLab (a font editor), at bottom. And then there's the glyph (top) when reduced to a path in Xara.


Why? And is there a way to curtail this excessive control point thing?

TIA,

Gary