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by Bhikkhu Pesala
Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:24 pm
Forum: Type Design
Topic: Historical and Discretionary Ligatures
Replies: 7
Views: 873

Re: Historical and Discretionary Ligatures

You have not enabled the Terminal Forms (fina) feature. Both fina and hist need to be enabled.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: Type Design
Topic: Historical and Discretionary Ligatures
Replies: 7
Views: 873

Re: Historical and Discretionary Ligatures

You have the right idea. You just need to add an entry to Terminal Forms (fina) for longs > s; and the Historical Forms must precede Terminal forms in the OpenType script. Terminal form longs.png Historical Forms Enabled historical forms.png Historical Forms and Terminal Forms Enabled terminal forms...
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Thu Feb 01, 2024 12:59 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: I'm freaking out
Replies: 3
Views: 295

Re: I'm freaking out

The usual order is accent first followed by the base glyph to type a composite glyph with the accent.

àèìòù or ãõñ etc.

What happens when you type using the font in an application like Word depends on the Windows keyboard that you select in Settings.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:11 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Kern all my fonts
Replies: 1
Views: 263

Re: Kern all my fonts

Open the list of kerning pairs in the Code Editor, and copy the list of pairs.

Paste the list of pairs to replace the list of pairs in another font. Do a syntax check, and rerun Autokern on the pair adjustments lookup so that the kerning suits the different glyphs of the other font(s).
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: How to Change the Font Metrics?
Replies: 2
Views: 432

Re: How to Change the Font Metrics?

The font metrics are calculated from the glyphs in the font.

Use the font information dialog to locate the glyphs with the highest WinAscent and lowest WinDescent.

CapsHeight is calculated from Capital H.
x-height is calculated from lowercase x.
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by Bhikkhu Pesala
Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Problem with left bearing at 0 fixed point.
Replies: 2
Views: 542

Re: Problem with left bearing at 0 fixed point.

I moved this topic to support, as it looks like a problem with understanding the glyph alignment feature.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:11 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Create font over existing with specific parameters
Replies: 1
Views: 581

Re: Create font over existing with specific parameters

Use the Glyph Transformer to change the width by 103%
That will also increase the stroke width. It is hard to guess how 0.03mm converts to funits, but use the bold or thin transformations to modify stroke width.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:58 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Ligatures Transparent Overlapping
Replies: 6
Views: 1178

Re: Ligatures Transparent Overlapping

The question is, “Why does Scanahand produce contours with incorrect direction?”
One should not need to install another software package to fix bugs in Scanahand.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Fri Jan 12, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: When we copy and paste the letters, the paste is not the same font
Replies: 1
Views: 639

Re: When we copy and paste the letters, the paste is not the same font

You would need to paste the text with formatting, not as plain text.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Exclude a symbol or letter from bold
Replies: 8
Views: 1860

Re: Exclude a symbol or letter from bold

In the bold version of your font, symbols can be the same for both Regular and Bold versions, with the other glyphs being bold for the bold version.

Regular
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Bold
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by Bhikkhu Pesala
Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:14 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Requests and Enhancements
Topic: Moved and repositioned glyphs
Replies: 5
Views: 1591

Re: Moved and repositioned glyphs

Cut the selected glyphs to the clipboard Insert the same number of empty new glyphs Use Paste Special , and paste the glyph names, glyph outlines, and any other data that you wish to preserve. The sort order can be changed from the droplist. Probably, you will want to retain sort by glyph index. Gl...
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Exclude a symbol or letter from bold
Replies: 8
Views: 1860

Re: Exclude a symbol or letter from bold

Your font needs a bold version. If none is provided, Windows will add pixels to make faux bold characters when that attribute is enabled in a word processor or other application using that font.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Tue Dec 26, 2023 6:14 am
Forum: MainType - Support
Topic: Need help with a situation
Replies: 2
Views: 842

Re: Need help with a situation

No doubt the fonts are protected by Windows to prevent them being renamed or deleted.

Why do you need to change the filenames? What matters for applications is the font name, not the file name.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
Topic: import image error
Replies: 6
Views: 1978

Re: import image error

That image looks much larger than you need to create a glyph. Try resizing it first by 25% before importing it.
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Thu Dec 21, 2023 7:13 am
Forum: FontCreator - Bug Reports
Topic: import image error
Replies: 6
Views: 1978

Re: import image error

Can you share the image with us, or tell us more about its dimensions in pixels, and number of colours?