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Truetype fonts contain a Description field in the advanced naming properties. This description is displayed in the Font Information toolbar. So all you need to do is edit the font in Font Creator and have the information stored permanently in the font where it can be seen in Windows Explorer with th...

Just open the font in Font Creator, and use Save As from the file menu, to save it on a floppy disk or USB drive, or save it in My Documents and send it to yourself as an email attachment.

Don't select the composite glyphs. They will still be correctly composed when pasting back in. Hinting will also not be lost if it exists in the font.

It is a method of classifying fonts by giving them a number.

See this thread

Why not just open the font in Font Creator?

Right-click on the font name in the Font window, and select "Open with Font Creator."

I use Fine Print PDF Factory. You could also try PrimoPDF, which is free. PrimoPDF also works fine, but the installation is a bit defective for Windows 9x. See this post for a fix.

You can print the character set to a PDF driver.

Tuffy

Is that any use?

See the Frequently Asked Questions

Font Creator does not support hinting. If you modify a glyph outline the hinting information is removed.

Format, Tables, Unsupported Tables, and delete the GSUB table. I think that will do what you want. Backup your work, in case it has undesired results.

If you can display it on the screen, you can get it into Font Creator. Print screen, paste into Photoshop, crop it, copy it, paste it into Font Creator as a bmp. About 500 x 500 pixels is the maximum recommended size. You need to set the Caps Height and x-height you want using guidelines, then resiz...

Dick Pape wrote:Hey Erwin good work.
ps: can you put a limit on the number of silly faces people can put in messages? How about 40 to start?:mrgreen:

It could be a lot worse.

Edit: Removed.

Shortcut keys in point mode can be useful for cleaning up unwanted points. Q Previous point W Next point Del Delete point A Add point Shift Up/Down/Left/Right move by 100 funits Up/Down/Left/Right move by 10 funits Control + Up/Down/Left/Right move by 1 funit G add orthogonal guidelines at node O ma...

I added a few characters to it.

A Zip Archive of the Tuffy font and a PDF file of the character set are attached.

I have attached the files to the forum so that they don't get lost.

You will find a free font for teachers in the Font Gallery.

The way that you're doing it may work, and may be the easiest, but the right way is to use the Unicode mappings for Lao. This is a PDF Code Chart for Lao from Unicode.org. I have created and edited fonts for Burmese using only the ANSI character set, as you are trying to do for Lao. It is OK but has...