Font Forum

You would have to do it by hand by taking the ttf of the regular version and fattening it by hand.

MS Sans Serif is actually a bitmapped font, not a true type. A true type of MS Sans Serif Regular does exists, but i can't find a bold version anywhere. It appears that any bold use of the font is the rasteriser doing it itself.

it was actually an issue with intersecting contours.

after my toils, i've written a tutorial to creating pixel fonts using FCP, which i think quite a few of your users might find useful:

http://www.iamcal.com/misc/fonts/pixfonttut/part1.php


thanks for all your help

I've created a pixel font that works fine. here's a gif made in paint shop pro: (photoshop, word, wordpad, etc all work too) http://www.iamcal.com/files/hello_test.gif but when i use it with flash mx (embedded), then this happens: http://www.iamcal.com/files/hello_test.swf (for those who can't see, ...

that solved the problem, yes

so the LSB shouldn't be less than x=0 when it's large - it's not something i guess alot of people will run into, but in braille all the capital letters have an extra 3/4 character width of space preceeding them.

thanks for your help.

the whole glyph is well within the bearings

when i size everything down by 50% (and change units per em accordingly), the problem dissapears. i guess there must be some upper limit for glyph sizes in truetype?

I have a font with glyphs that very considerably in width (half the characters have an advance of 1500 and half have an advance of 3000). The advance is set wider than the character glyphs and the left side bearing is positive, but clipping occurs on the wide characters when they are rastered. I've ...