Adding Macintosh Roman mappings to a FontStruct-made font

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In the Gallery forum is a thread which I started earlier today about my Poetry font.

http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/poetry/2195/1

The font appears not to have mappings for Macintosh Roman.

The font started off as a download from the FontStruct facility at http://fontstruct.fontshop.com and I then did a Save As… and I then edited the saved file using FontCreator 5.6. Apart from fixing errors (most, maybe all, being the removing of redundant points) automatically and a few cases of manually moving a point by one font unit so as to make the direction clear at a cusp, the artwork is as produced by the FontStruct facility. However, I did do some copying and pasting of glyphs from several FontStruct-made fonts so I could perhaps have made a mistake in some way.

Is it possible please to convert the font so as to include Macintosh Roman mappings or would it be better to start with a File New… in FontCreator and just use the present Poetry font as a source of artwork and not as a source of mappings? That would take a while so an automated method of adding the mappings would be preferable if that is possible.

William Overington

30 August 2008

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I decided to try to produce such a font and have now completed it and uploaded it to the web.

However, the original font is still available, though the file has been renamed, and there are now two typecase_ pdfs available as well from the thread in the Gallery forum.

William Overington

1 September 2008

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How to semi-automatic rebuild a platform’s mappings

  • Open the Platform Manager dialog (Format → Platform Manager…)
  • If the platform is available, first delete it
  • Add new platform, make sure you copy mapping info from another platform, as shown below:

  • Finally add naming info to the newly added platform, this can be done with the Automatic Naming feature (Tools → AutoNaming…)
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Thank you for your reply.

Here is a transcript of what I tried.

Monday 1 September 2008

11:50 am (British Summer Time)

Open POETRY018.TTF in FontCreator 5.6.

Save As… POETRY01801.TTF

Format Platform Manager…

The platform Macintosh Roman is listed, so delete it and OK.

Format Platform Manager… Add…

Macintosh Roman Copy from Microsoft Unicode BMP only. OK then OK again.

Format Mappings… Macintosh Roman, have a look at what is now there and OK.

Use Tools AutoNaming… to name the font as Poetry Rebuilt version 0.1801. (The name Poetry Rebuilt is used here, rather than Poetry, because I have already produced the Poetry font version 0.181 by another method and it is installed in the fonts directory of the computer and so I am using another name for the font so that I can have it installed without first needing to uninstall the Poetry font. Had I not already produced the Poetry font version 0.181 by another method I would have named this font as Poetry version 0.181 rather than Poetry Rebuilt version 0.1801.)

Manually copy the five fields about copyright notice, trademark, Font Designer, Description and Sample Text from the corresponding fields in the Microsoft Unicode BMP only platform.

Validate. Validation completed with no problems.

Install the font using Font Install…

Try the font using WordPad at 24 point.

Now, try to make a typecase_ pdf by editing a copy of the source document of the original 0.18 version using Serif PagePlus version X2.

Copy and paste from the pdf to WordPad does not copy the Private Use Area codepoints across.

Upload the font and the pdf to the web.

12:40 pm

Here are links to the two items.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/POETRY01801.TTF

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/typecase_poetry_rebuilt_0p1801_alternates_private_use_area.pdf

William Overington

1 September 2008