Upgrade / Vector Question ~ Please

[sweetie]

Hello. I have FC5 and I have been copying and pasting my vector art into the glyphs. My art needs a LOT of tweaking once in the font after this process (takes longer to tweak than create; frustrating). Will the upgrade to FC6 improve this? I would value some honest input here as well as working experience. I am looking to reduce my time tweaking and produce a quality font in a shorter amount of time. Thanks.

[Erwin Denissen]

I'm positive you'll benefit from the new vector import feature.

Do download and install the latest version of FontCreator, and let us know your results! You won't be able to save a font during the trial period, but you should be able to import vector based images, and determine the accurateness of the import.

Also do take a minute to read the From Vector (e.g. an Adobe Illustrator image) to Font tutorial.

[sweetie]

AWESOME! Fabulous improvement! LOVE IT! Much better accuracy / streamlined productivity for certain! Thank you! I definitely want to upgrade ASAP! This will cut my tweaking time after import or pasting by 50 percent or more! LOVE IT! Beautiful!

[Dick Pape]

Now I want to put in a good word for one of the best features in Vn 6 which is the ability to drag and drop a whole directory of images at one time into a skeleton font. In the prior versions you had to do this image by image. Now you can setup an entire font and let it do it's translation while you are at dinner.

Large productivity improvement for me (?20 times faster?) but saves my energies to make the corrections after the glyphs are filled.

[sweetie]

DP,

WOW! Is there a tutorial in the on-line guide for doing this (d&d an entire directory of imagery into the skeleton font)? That would just make my week!

[Dick Pape]

Not sure of the documentation. There have been discussions in the Forum. Too obvious to explain!

Step 1: Open directory containing images. Highlight ones to use.

1 Select Images.jpg (47.72 KiB) Viewed 297 times

Step 2: Drop into open FC font at first position.

2 Drop into 1st Empty Cell.jpg (70.29 KiB) Viewed 297 times

Step 3: Release mouse.

3 When Done.jpg (73.4 KiB) Viewed 297 times

I included the Comma (placed into colon cell) to show you can select individual images. They are loaded in sequence. You would move them into their correct cells afterward.

They tend to group into sets so it goes quickly -- 0-9, A-Z, a-z and individual others.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Windows metafiles can be used too, but they will be traced as bitmaps, which is relatively much slower than using PDF or AI vectors.

Drag and Drop

[sweetie]

This just blows me away (in a good way!)

I just got my upgrade number today ~ THRILLED !!!
I can not wait to try this over the weekend! Thanks so much to everyone!