Beginner - combining fonts

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I want to be able to combine the CJK characters from one ttf file with the Latin characters in another ttf.

I went through the “Insert Characters Feature” tutorial, but it didn’t do what I wanted. It creates the characters but they are blank. That makes sense but doesn’t help me.

Is there a simple way to combine two fonts?

Thanks,
John

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Try Samples

And

Tools

Also helpful is:

http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/how-to-add-characters-defined-in-the-supplementary-planes/390/1

http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/insert-characters-feature/1166/1

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I usually just open both fonts, select all the characters that I want to copy, and press Ctrl+C (or Edit:Copy). By selecting all of the characters to copy, it tells me how many I have selected on the bottom status bar - a really important piece of information because of the next step. I go to the font to which I am adding the characters and insert the same number of glyphs that I copied. Note that I don’t add characters, just glyphs - no mappings, no postscript name, just a bunch of blank glyphs. Last step, Ctrl+E (paste special) - making sure to check all four boxes: I want to paste the glyph outlines, the metrics, the postscript name, and all the mappings. This is, by far, the easiest, most foolproof way of combining the characters from two fonts into one. You will never screw up the mappings, and the glyphs actually scale proportionally to the funits per em - meaning you often won’t have to do any scaling of your new glyphs.

Van

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Fantastic!

Thanks Van. This should be a new Topic in the FC Tutorials!

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Thanks for your help. That definitely answers my question.