Font Forum

I am hoping this is a strange request since my usage itself is strange. I am taking an existing font family, regular, bold, italic and bold italic. I want to make all of the glyphs start at 0,0 and ALSO, have a height or 2000 units - let the width come out where it will. I have done this manually an...

I only used 'Times' as an example and of course would use an open license font. Thank you for your reply I did my original fonts many years ago - probably 2005. As I recall, I removed everything I could to make the file smaller. They worked pefectly in my GDI application but now that I decided to in...

David
I think I screwed up the creation of the new font files.
I just posted another question as another topic.

David

I created a few font files and they do not install in windows. I have determined after pulling out much hair, that it would be easier if I copied the special glyphs to another font file. For instance, I took times.ttf, using naming called it MyFont, and saved it as MyFont.ttf I can now use MyFont.tt...

David Thank you You did not answer my question directly but certainly gave me a GREAT direction. FYI - I am using an older version if iText to create pdf documents. Strangely, in the create font call, they use the file name. This definitely works but when I open the pdf in AI CS6, it does not see th...

Font creator is great IMHO. I set up some special fonts that are highly modified versions of another font. They are essentially graphics. I save the font as MyFont.ttf In Windows 7, it shows as "MyFont Regular" so my programs can not find MyFont.TTF I have tried everything under naming. An...