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by mikeycorn
Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:57 am
Forum: Type Design
Topic: Relative Quality of a Font & FCP's Problem Report
Replies: 1
Views: 7799

Relative Quality of a Font & FCP's Problem Report

Just curious here . . . Can you pretty much judge the quality of a font and the professional skill of that font's creator by the amount of problems reported via FCP's Problem Report feature? Could FCP ever be considered a bit too overzealous flagging things that aren't really a problem and aren't re...
by mikeycorn
Sun Mar 07, 2004 6:14 pm
Forum: Specification
Topic: Font scaling and font smoothing
Replies: 2
Views: 17589

Thank you for the reply! Sometimes when I read the complexity of the answer though, I'm almost sorry I asked! :wink: I just had no idea how complicated this font stuff was. I mean, of the two links, your post was pretty readable, but on the first time through the Microsoft white paper, I'd say I onl...
by mikeycorn
Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:13 pm
Forum: Specification
Topic: Font scaling and font smoothing
Replies: 2
Views: 17589

Font scaling and font smoothing

Before I delved into the FCP, I had always thought fonts were actually bitmaps - really, really big bitmaps - but bitmaps that then were scaled down to smaller sizes. Now I know better, but it brings an important question to mind. The thing is, running Windows XP with the font smoothing turned on, a...
by mikeycorn
Sun Feb 29, 2004 7:30 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Ice'n Gothic Bold
Replies: 7
Views: 15485

Thanks for the replies. It looks, then, that the font is a converted or reworked font, the name of which I know not, and the original would not have had so many extraneous points. I'm just guessing at this and I would be pleased to be corrected. I would say you're probably right on the mark. I had i...
by mikeycorn
Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:26 am
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Ice'n Gothic Bold
Replies: 7
Views: 15485

Ice'n Gothic Bold

I was hoping I could get a professional analysis of this font. http://www.extraxa.com/webposts/ICE044.TTF I can't take credit for it, in fact, it's a little bit sketchy because I plan on using this in a software program I'm releasing, but this is like the phantom font, it comes with a name of "...
by mikeycorn
Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:18 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: vertical spacing
Replies: 4
Views: 6933

Ouch, my head hurts from reading that! :) Okay, it's just the terminology that's throwing me off, but when you read that as a font newbie, it's scary!!! Okay, so there are six values I need to change: Typo Ascender, Typo Descender, Win Ascent, Win Descent and the Ascender and Descender in the Header...
by mikeycorn
Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:56 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: vertical spacing
Replies: 4
Views: 6933

Thank you!
by mikeycorn
Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:31 am
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: vertical spacing
Replies: 4
Views: 6933

vertical spacing

There are so many new terms I'm trying to learn in this world of fonts, I don't even understand most of the questions here muchless the answers. I've got a really nice font I want to use in my program, but unfortunately, the vertical spaceing is way too large. Can someone please tell me how I would ...