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- Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:21 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: How to combine characters to make a unique word
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7797
Re: How to combine characters to make a unique word
Now whenever I type the word Allah is shows a unique shape for it, whatever font , software or operating system it is, so what is making this change? the true type font itself or some other coding which is common in computer world? I believe the operating system does it automatically, as well as co...
- Tue May 03, 2011 7:44 am
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: How Do You Convert FontCreator Fonts into a Keyboard Layout?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 12502
Re: How Do You Convert FontCreator Fonts into a Keyboard Lay
Let me try to explain this. A font maps character shapes ("glyphs") to numerical codes. These numerical codes are based on the Unicode standard. Devanagari characters occupy a bloc of codes beginning at 0900. If you make a Devanagari font, you should map the character shapes to the appropr...
- Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:25 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Font for postal address labels
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6279
Re: Font for postal address labels
Deleting the period and comma characters will not work; you need to change them into empty zero-width characters. Open them, delete the glyphs (the pictures of the characters), and drag the right boundary so it is at the same place as the left boundary (probably at 0). As for the bolding; you need t...
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:57 am
- Forum: Type Design
- Topic: Confused by some Hebrew characters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6040
Re: Confused by some Hebrew characters
Yes. "Hebrew point sheva" is a vowel sign, and thus inherently defined as a combining character. The circle stands for the letter it combines with.
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:15 am
- Forum: Font Related Information
- Topic: arabic font is getting Corrupted format
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4966
Re: arabic font is getting Corrupted format
You didn't say what program this is happening in. It looks as if it is a non-Unicode-compliant program, and it is translating the Arabic letters into ANSI codes (based on the Arabic code page 1256), but then displaying them according to the Latin 1 code page (1252). Depending on your version of Wind...
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:51 am
- Forum: MainType - Support
- Topic: Pseudo Groups - are these possible?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4215
Re: Pseudo Groups - are these possible?
While it is true that the groups are real folders, they do not have to contain real fonts. As you have discovered, when you tell Main Type to add a font to a group, one of the options is Shortcut. This is how I do groups.
- Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:18 am
- Forum: Type Design
- Topic: hebrew fonts
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8819
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:59 am
- Forum: Scanahand - Requests and Enhancements
- Topic: Diacritical Marks, respectively Unicode
- Replies: 50
- Views: 93805
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:20 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Arabic / Urdu Character mapping
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5100
Unicode for connecting characters
For Arabic-based alphabets, including Urdu, the connecting forms of the letters (initial, medial, and final) are encoded in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, starting at hex FB50. I believe (I don't have the time to check this out now) that the appropriate substitutions are made in Windows (i...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:57 am
- Forum: Implemented Feature Requests
- Topic: Support OpenType Features for Arabic
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8410
I have some experience with Hebrew. Right-to-left isn't a problem under Windows XP, since the operating system knows which characters are supposed to go right to left. So it doesn't matter if it's a right-to-left font or not. If characters are mapped correctly, Hebrew (and Arabic) should automatical...
- Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:45 am
- Forum: MainType - Support
- Topic: Font Icon Display
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6373
Because the active fonts aren't shortcuts; they are actual font files. You cannot install a shortcut to a font file as a font. If you want to know where the font file is located, the folder column in Main Type will tell you that. But what would it mean to say that a shortcut is an active font :?: :?...
- Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:04 am
- Forum: MainType - Support
- Topic: Office 2000 problems after uninstalling fonts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10641
But the problem is that some programs won't be able to run properly without their special fonts. I have three programs on my system that I use frequently which have specialized fonts that are required for the program to behave properly: WordPerfect, Math Type, and DavkaWriter. I think OpenOffice als...
- Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:51 am
- Forum: MainType - Support
- Topic: Office 2000 problems after uninstalling fonts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10641
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:44 pm
- Forum: Font Related Information
- Topic: The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator
- Replies: 10
- Views: 27917
- Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:08 am
- Forum: FontCreator - Support
- Topic: Font Studio and Hebrew Fonts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7469
I use Font Creator (v. 4.5) a lot to remap Hebrew fonts to different encodings, including Unicode, since I have programs that use different encodings for Hebrew. Unicode is the easiest to do since when the encoding is chosen you see the name of the character, so you know you have the right encoding....