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1. Where I can find a square in the Glyphs panel?'
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OS: Microsoft (Windows 7)
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I’m playing round with a loop but how to achieve my need..He had a 3rd party tool which didn't match our scaling needs the file is a fas so I have tried to reverse engineer the whole function using trial and error.
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