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by RickDe
Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:21 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Requests and Enhancements
Topic: Please Make "Get Union of Contours" or Bold Smarter
Replies: 1
Views: 3354

Please Make "Get Union of Contours" or Bold Smarter

This feature would be extra powerful if it was a bit smarter. After running the Bold Glyph Transformer, it will overlap areas and sometimes make pretty crazy paths. Generally it works pretty well but very often needs individual curves to be cleaned up which the "Validate" feature detects w...
by RickDe
Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:11 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Requests and Enhancements
Topic: Please add the ability to Globally override the Export settings.
Replies: 1
Views: 3171

Please add the ability to Globally override the Export settings.

I'm standardizing 40 fonts and their variants, so 160 individual files. In order to use the AutoHinting feature. I had to change this setting on all 160 project files for both TTF and WOFF. An ability to set the export features globally would be really great. Also being able to set a common export f...
by RickDe
Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:06 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Requests and Enhancements
Topic: Please Add a Way to Select which Character to Auto Kern
Replies: 1
Views: 3209

Please Add a Way to Select which Character to Auto Kern

It took me a while to figure out that you can do these three: - If you have existing Kern tables you can use Auto Kern inside OpenType Designer to regenerate them. - You can export Kerning tables from an existing Font and use them in another by importing them, then using Auto Kern - You can make a b...
by RickDe
Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:27 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: Can a font contain a virus?
Replies: 1
Views: 4256

Re: Can a font contain a virus?

So first off a font cannot BE a virus on its own. It is not a program that can be executed by a computer all by itself. It is data like an Image file. Now that being said, it is possible for a font to BECOME a virus when combined with either a bug or flaw in another program that loads the font file....
by RickDe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:27 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
Topic: [CLOSED] Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..
Replies: 8
Views: 4941

Re: Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..

Erwin Denissen wrote: Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:20 pm Just uncheck "Ranges" and it should accept glyph names that contain a hyphen.
Wow... such a simple solution! I did not even see that checkbox.
by RickDe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 2:56 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
Topic: [CLOSED] Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..
Replies: 8
Views: 4941

Re: Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..

Ok Bhikkhu, I think it's a bug :D or as we developers call them. "Unintended features".

Copy Glyph should probably add quotes to the glyph name, or maybe validate could add the quotes to all names during the validation.

Out of curiosity why would a hyphen be special?
by RickDe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:04 am
Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
Topic: [CLOSED] Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..
Replies: 8
Views: 4941

Re: Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..

On a new font, File->New this issue exists. via Insert->Glyphs paste in, Ohmsign-grek. Hit validate it will say that it is in the font, but it is not. Without validate it just does nothing when inserting, no character added. via Insert->Characters, goto code point 8486, double click to add the chara...
by RickDe
Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:52 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
Topic: [CLOSED] Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..
Replies: 8
Views: 4941

Re: Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..

I should also say that i've noticed that Multi-Mapped characters do not copy. I didn't mention this as I'm not sure if Multi-Mapped characters are valid.
by RickDe
Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:46 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
Topic: [CLOSED] Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..
Replies: 8
Views: 4941

[CLOSED] Something is wrong with Ohmsign-grek..

I'm having issues with some fonts when trying to copy characters from a regular it's Italic version in order to fix issues. My process is fix them in the regular, and then using the transformer to create the italic version. Overall I'm having issues copying about 200 characters at a time and I think...
by RickDe
Mon Oct 19, 2020 2:59 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: What fonts do you really admire?
Replies: 3
Views: 4504

Re: What fonts do you really admire?

Beautiful font!

is this yours?

2780 characters! So many.

I think I see a mistake on the hyphenminus though, unless that is intentional.
by RickDe
Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:54 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Standardizing fonts, validate against a standard list of characters?
Replies: 3
Views: 2389

Re: Standardizing fonts, validate against a standard list of characters?

Thanks Bhikkhu!

Here is the script I created for Spanish.

For anyone else reading this. Modifying the xml scripts is quite easy. You just need the dec values for the characters you want to insert.
by RickDe
Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:51 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
Topic: What fonts do you really admire?
Replies: 3
Views: 4504

What fonts do you really admire?

For when you need to ask yourself:
What is the perfect example of this character? or How should my kerning look.
by RickDe
Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:42 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: I cannot figure out how to make Complete Composites Work for some characters.
Replies: 3
Views: 2207

Re: I cannot figure out how to make Complete Composites Work for some characters.

dotless i. Of course. :lol: bhikkhu, you should be super proud of FontCreator. It's a great program but it could use a few features to make it more obvious to us without a giant brain like you have :D. Would save you a lot of time answering dumb questions like those from me. - Give a bit more feedba...
by RickDe
Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:48 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: I cannot figure out how to make Complete Composites Work for some characters.
Replies: 3
Views: 2207

I cannot figure out how to make Complete Composites Work for some characters.

Currently on one font it's working for some characters, but not others. I understand that it's bringing in the vectors from gravemod, caronmod, etc. Then sometimes (maybe) from tildecomb, dieresiscomb etc. This part is fairly easy to figure out. What I cannot figureout is how the base? characters wo...
by RickDe
Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:13 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Requests and Enhancements
Topic: Where is Auto Complete Code Points?
Replies: 8
Views: 6330

Re: Where is Auto Complete Code Points?

Also if you use the copy paste, you have to delete the existing characters. This removes the Kerning for those characters in the kerning table.