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- Wed Sep 18, 2013 12:04 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Requests and Enhancements
- Topic: Open Type Layout Feature Editor
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9279
Re: Open Type Layout Feature Editor
When doing GPOS, it is essential to be able to define anchor points in the glyph editing window and have them be visible in that window.
- Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:48 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
- Topic: [NO BUG] Kerning Questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6895
Re: Kerning Questions
No, autokerning worked just fine for all of the character combinations where there was a horizontal distance to calculate, like "( and "". Each of those got a nice autokern. It just doesn't work for things like ", or -.
- Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:23 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
- Topic: [NO BUG] Kerning Questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6895
Re: Kerning Questions
Autokerning normalizes the horizontal distance between the closest parts of the two characters. When two characters do not occupy any of the same horizontal space, there is no horizontal distance between the characters to calculate, so it just puts in the default spacing between the two characters, ...
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 5:22 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Font Creator 6.0, how do I join points?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3464
Re: Font Creator 6.0, how do I join points?
Ok, the top point (in red) is in a different contour, so you can either 1) select that point and one of the lower ones (hold shift to select the second point), then "join contours" (right click on one point). Or 2) remove the top point, then "add point" (again, right click) to th...
- Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:28 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Unable to Find Glyph $09F8
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8341
Re: Unable to Find Glyph $09F8
I would prefer Unicode character names, but never decimal.Dick Pape wrote:I'd like them to be postcript names of course!
- Sun May 19, 2013 12:14 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Glyph Names I can understand
- Replies: 21
- Views: 18000
Re: Glyph Names I can understand
"Lambda" has always been the preferred Unicode spelling. However, when it was unified with ISO 10646 for Unicode v 1.1, some spellings were changed to "Lamda" for compatibility with source code pages.
- Wed May 15, 2013 4:03 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
- Topic: otf to a ttf
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8642
Re: otf to a ttf
If they have true type outlines (ie, they open in FCP), all Open type fonts are true type fonts. Just change the extension from OTF to TTF.
- Mon May 06, 2013 7:57 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Discussion
- Topic: Font Validator confused by counterclockwise contours?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9331
Re: Font Validator confused by counterclockwise contours?
A contour with incorrect direction has counters that are also wound the wrong way. The validator will only correct the positive contour, though. I've always had to manually fix any counters. You often get an improperly wound contour when you make new characters by mirroring another - like p and q or...
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:42 am
- Forum: Gallery
- Topic: Court Hand
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8436
Re: Court Hand
Court hand is the demented granduncle of Edwardian script and blackletter. It's not technically legible by anyone.
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:41 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Generate Postscript Name for Mu/Micro
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4200
Re: Generate Postscript Name for Mu/Micro
Yes. In the original postscript standard, which predated Unicode, the micro sign was named "mu", and it was used as the lower case Greek mu in Greek code pages. When Unicode disunified mu from the micro character (which is script=common), the Greek mu ended up with a systematic name, uniXX...
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:35 am
- Forum: Implemented Feature Requests
- Topic: Paste Special Dialogue to Remember its Last Used Setting
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8605
Re: Paste Special Dialogue Should Remember its Last Used Set
Yes; a distinct improvement.
- Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:38 pm
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: minor edit, then could not use font
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4540
Re: minor edit, then could not use font
It is possible that it was digitally signed, because a signature contains a sort of checksum that can detect if a font has been altered. Unfortunately, I don't actually know how to fix something like that.
- Mon Feb 11, 2013 4:41 pm
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: FontCreator use in Kindle or Nook
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8182
Re: FontCreator use in Kindle or Nook
I have made some PDF documents with PUA characters and using graphite features through OpenOffice, and the Kindle has imperfectly, but nevertheless with all features intact. I would imagine that the PDFs of simple accented Latin characters will not pose an undue burden, at least on the Kindle.
- Fri Nov 02, 2012 9:14 am
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: Using Microsoft VOLT for OTF Design
- Replies: 19
- Views: 21549
Re: Using Microsoft VOLT for OTF Design
algrass has already posted to the "official" VOLT forum at fontlab forums , as much good as that will do. In general, OpenType and its interactions with Uniscribe is by far the most complicated typography subject I know of - and I have intimate knowledge of Unicode technical standards - bu...
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:44 am
- Forum: Identify a Font
- Topic: Font with J and L both having the same tails
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6748
Re: Font with J and L both having the same tails
The angle's not quite right, is it?