I have recently created a font and due to the complexity of the font i would prefer that the font previews as Arial or a default font in all drop box applications. I know for example you can manually turn off this option in the toolbar, customise option “List font names in thier font” In Microsoft Word, but is it possible to force the TTF font to do this in the coding in Font Creator?
How do symbol fonts display in Word?
Is your font symbols or letters?
When a font has a Microsoft Symbol platform, the font is a Symbol font.
Symbol character sets have a special meaning: all of the characters in the Unicode range 0xF000 - 0xF0FF (inclusive) will be used to enumerate the symbol character set. All glyphs in this range are mapped to the range 0x0000 - 0x00FF.
Symbol fonts do not form words so line breaks can occur after any character code. A spell checker should not check symbol font-formatted material.
Note: only the first 224 characters of symbol fonts will be accessible, a space and up to 223 printing characters.
In order to change a normal font into a symbol font there are a few things:
• Make sure the Microsoft platform is “Microsoft Symbol”.
From the Platform Manager command (Format menu) select the Microsoft platform. Now press the Change button. The platform should be changed from “Microsoft Unicode BMP only” to “Microsoft Symbol”.
• In the Settings window (Format menu) on the Classification tab set the Panose - Family Kind to “Pictorial”, Panose - Weight to “No Fit”, Panose - Contrast to “No Fit” and the Font-family - Class to “Symbolic”.
• In the Settings window (Format menu) on the Ranges tab no Unicode Character Ranges should be selected and Symbol Character Set should be the only selected Code Page Range.
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Thanks a lot for that just what i needed to know.
I have converted them to symbols and it works perfect.
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