Reduce Font Size Tips Needed

[mouellet]

Hello I have a pretty Huge Task to do at work.
We are porting a game in Chinese. The font size is aprox 9megs its realy big.

So what I was thinking is to delete all the unnecessary character to reduce the size.
The problem is the original font has approximately 15,000 characters and the final font that I need to save may have approximately 500 characters.

I have a list of character that I need to keep in a text file.

Any Idea how to proceed?!

Please don't tell me that the only option is to select them one by one
Sorry for my bad English its not my first language.

Michael

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

If you know the Unicode code-points of the characters that you want, it is easy to create a new font with the desired characters, using the Insert Characters feature (Professional Edition only).

Then, you only need to copy 500 characters from one font to the other in the correct order instead of deleting 14,500 characters.

Then you can delete all but the first few required glyphs from the first font, add 500 blank glyphs, and copy the 500 characters from the new font with their mappings back to the blank glyphs in the first font, using "Paste Special."