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There already is such a feature called OpenType Glyph Substitution. FontCreator has supported OpenType Features since version 7.0

Serif PagePlus X5 or later versions support OpenType features, as do DrawPlus, Microsoft Word, and InDesign.

This should be possible with paste special. Experiment on a small range of glyphs first to see if it works as expected. Insert blank glyphs with the required Unicode mappings using Insert Characters. Copy the new blank glyphs Select the target glyphs Use paste special, with add glyph mappings, but w...

To scale a font up by 10% Edit, Select Composites Edit, Invert Selection Font, Properties (shortcut Alt+Enter), General, Layout, (formerly in Format, Settings, Header), and set funits/em to 1843 (assuming it is now 2048) Edit, Copy Font, Properties (shortcut Alt+Enter), General, Layout, (formerly i...

If you're using the Pro Edition or the 30-day Trial Edition, you can use the transform wizard.

Otherwise, see this thread — Resizing Fonts and Changing Funits/em Values

See also this thread.

Yes, up to a point. If you look at Arial 12 point and Garamond 12 point you will see that Arial looks bigger because it has a larger x-height. If your font does not need accents, then that space can be used so that the Caps Height coincides with WinAscent. However, be aware that the font may not wor...

You can create a single point contour by deleting all by one node from a rectangle, though I have no idea whether a font like this will work on your milling machine. You can set the width for a range of glyphs with Autometrics, on the Tools menu. I believe that both of these are possible in the Home...

Fonts that are loaded will only remain available in Windows applications until you reboot your PC.

Fonts that are installed will be available the next time you start your PC.

Loading fonts is therefore useful for a special print job using fonts that are not often used.

Truetype fonts are scalable, and your font does not look like a fixed width font. You can arrive at a suitable value for the multiplier on the glyph tab of the image import dialogue by trial and error. Its not critical, as long as all glyphs are scaled by the same factor. The glyphs can be scaled us...

Truetype fonts only allow black. White is not possible either — only transparent.

Please don't use the PM facility to ask general questions. Post again in the same thread if the reply is not clear enough.

Never mind the output — it is the input that you need to improve to stop your glyphs looking like one black blob. Did you get any better results yet? Did you understand the issues in the Tutorial that I recommended reading? Greyscale Rendering is done by Windows. Tables in the font can only tell Win...

In fonts, you can have any colour you like as long as its black. You cannot even have white — only transparent. It is not a bitmap, but a vector, so pixels are either included or not included. You can adjust how many grey pixels turn to black, between none and all, but to get better quality, you mus...

The only solution is to scan the handwriting at a much higher resolution. Typically, handwriting may be only 12 points high, which is 1/6th", but to make an acceptable vector outline in FontCreator you need a sample at least 200 pixels high. To use the grey pixels as well as the black ones, you...

Updated to version 1.2 to fix a mapping problem.

Updated to version 2.2 to fix a mapping problem and a problem with OpenType tags.