Hello. I have Font Creator 5 Demo. I’m trying to change glyphs in this font, for example, take the “@” from Verdana and paste it in MS UI Gothic. I try copying and pasting the glyph over, then changing the font name and such, and later saving. The new “@” glyph does not appear in Notepad or Wordpad. The only change I notice is the spacing between the fonts. Can anyone guide/help me?
I don’t think you are allowed to modify that font and then give it a different font name. Maybe it is allowed as long as you use the font on your own system, but I suggest you first read the license agreement or contact Microsoft.
That said, your description does look just fine, so maybe you forgot to give us some other important details?
I did exactly that, but it didn’t work. I tried with other set of fonts, and couldn’t use the changed glyphs. Can you give me the steps to do it properly? Maybe with some free font and post the results so I can reproduce it? Thanks for your help, sir.
It will help when you give specific details, so we are able to reproduce this. For example how did you change the font name?
Hello. I change the font names adding a “2” at the end of the name and removing the copyright. I thought it was only text and didn’t have much importance. Something like this:
MS UI Gothic ----> MS UI Gothic2
Something like that in every stance. I may be missing something, that’s why I wanted a walkthru. Thanks 
Did you change the filename as well?
For example, if the original was in a file with, say, GOTHIC.TTF as the name, did you save to a new file, say, GOTHIC2.TTF saving into a directory other than the C:\WINDOWS\FONTS directory using the SaveAs… facility of Font Creator 5.0 and then using Windows Explorer to copy the GOTHIC2.TTF file into the C:\WINDOWS\FONTS directory?
If you want to try out the exercise using two of my fonts, you might like to try using Quest Text which is in QUESTTXT.TTF and Pixel Polka which is in PIXPOLKA.TTF and trying to produce a modified font named Pixel Test in a new file named PIXPOLK2.TTF by copying the @ symbol from Quest Text and pasting it into Pixel Test.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/QUESTTXT.TTF
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/PIXPOLKA.TTF
I was thinking that Pixel Polka could have uses as a toolbox font and so if you use it for the above experiment and it helps you in your learning then it will have achieved a first success as a toolbox font.
For example how did you change the font name?
For example, did you use the Tools | AutoNaming… facility of Font Creator 5.0?
I do wonder at the back of my mind if there could be any problem because it is the at symbol: is that one of the characters which is different as between a US keyboard and a UK keyboard? Perhaps trying a question mark as well might be a good idea as that character also shows up in the fontviewer display of a font.
Readers of this thread are hereby authorized to use Quest text and Pixel Polka for the above experiments if they so wish.
I hope that this helps.
William Overington
Thanks William for the sample fonts. Now I did use AutoNaming to name the font and did rename it to “something_2.ttf” for example. What I discovered is that the first version of the installed font overrides the others, even while having changed the internal names and filename. So I can’t use Gothic until I uninstall the original gothic first. I’ll experiment further later, as Gothic’s (it’s used a lot, as I have japanese support enabled) removal may break something in Windows.
Thanks again to everyone for your excellent support! 