I have a file of bmp images which I wish to use to create a font. Building the font works well if you drop a file into a cell. You wait while it translates the curves and then select the next image and drop it into the next cell.
My problem is the wait can vary from a little to a lot. You have to be present during this whole time.
Is there a faster way to get a group of sequential images into a set of sequential glyphs? That is, can I select 10 bmp files and drop them into the first available glyph and come back in a hour or two with all 10 characters created?
You can create a panarama image in Irfav View and import five or ten images at once. However, there are limits to how big a bitmap FontCreator can handle at one go, and copying five or ten at once is not going to save you any time at all.
What I find works best is to have all the letters in one big bitmap in Irfan View, drag select around one letter, copy it to the clipboard, paste it into FontCreator’s overview window, then switch back to Irfan View to select and copy the next letter while FontCreator is busy.
What I find works best is to have all the letters in one big bitmap in Irfan View, drag select around one letter, copy it to the clipboard, paste it into FontCreator’s overview window, then switch back to Irfan View to select and copy the next letter while FontCreator is busy.
This looks like a great improvement to my old plan of using the whole thing as background.
I haven’t used paste for a while.
I quit and went to Background because paste usually generated so many extra points that I had to remove manually, often messing up the glyph outline in the process.
How does paste work now?