Font Forum

Thanks Amalea!

'8)' Isn't this fun?

Hi Mike,

I downloaded your font and it is great! Your friends need to RIGHT CLICK on the url, and select either "Save Target as" or "Save ... whatever Microsoft uses.

Thanks for sharing!

New Font Quick Steps I started off drawing one character at a time, scanning it in, pasting it into FCP, and making final adjustments there. It took a lot of time. I soon found it was easier for me to just do the whole thing from scratch in FC using the Contour Drawing Tool. But then Erwin made suc...

Place a guide line at the angle you want.

Select the glyph in contour mode [the outline will turn red] and right click in it. An "X" will appear in the center of the glyph.

Use the mouse to grab a corner, and rotate it to the angle you want.

For those of you interested in Historic Type Faces, here is a site for you!

http://prodigi.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/search.asp

Hi Bhikkhu, It sounds like the program you are using to make the PDF is unable to find the font. Could it be the file location? I seem to remember someone mentioning not saving their fonts in the Windows folder. What program or version are you using to make the PDF? It could be a glitch [spelled &qu...

The Newest Release of FCP is always available in the Announcements Forum

Circle Secrets You can always drag a circle from the samples on the left side of the screen into a glyph editing window, but where is the fun in that? Edit Note: The new Circle tool in V5.5 is wonderswell! There are so many possibilities when you know the variations you can get by making your circl...

Sorry, I tried to back page and edit and generated multiple copies of my reply. See what you can learn without even trying? Open Type still has the .ttf extension. Ariel is an Open Type. Can you open it? Perhaps you could send me a font you are having the problem with? Erwin is a better choice, but ...

No, Sorry, a rose by any other name remains a rose. There appeared to be two possibilities with your problem. A. Your Font or B. Your Program. A. Sometimes people use windows SAVE to change the name of a font. That does not work. http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?t=553 B. Programs get damage...

ttl ? Do you mean ttf ?

If they were named wrong you can re-name them in CFP.

At the Top of the Forum, select Search and type in naming. You should find most of your answers.

Good Hunting!

Dave

:shock: It is embarrassing to admit to not seeing what was plainly in front of me. The Online Manual has been available for some time. Go to http://high-logic.com/ and Look in the middle of the page. There it is! We need to bookmark the location at: http://www.high-logic.com/manual/index.html If you...

I just discovered that the H key - Hide can be "Locked Down." Of course you can always turn the grid and guide lines off in the VIEW selection. First select a point [or block of points] Second simultaneously hold down the control key and the H key and use any of the arrow keys to move it o...

Often improvements are made on a daily basis. To stay up to date, ALWAYS check out the newest post in the Announcements Forum.

At present, the latest Version is 4.2.4 (build 4.2.4.170.49)

Hi Berkeley, If I understand you correctly, assuming you are working on a NEW font, [If you are working in an existing font, you should save it under a new name and may want to press the <<ABC>> add a glyph button and work in that space, copy your finished glyph to the clip-board, erase the original...