Is there a way to change the pangram displayed on the ttf file when opened in Windows. The default is the boring old:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
I would like to change it to something else, more classier like:
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Is it even possible? I think it is because I have other fonts installed that display other pangrams like: Jack daws love my big sphinx of quartz. Would appreciate some help here.
There is a field in Format, Naming, Advanced, called “Sample Text.”
However, changing that seems to have no effect, at least not in Windows ME.
Windows looks into naming fields and Code Page Character Ranges, to determine whether is will use the default pangram or “Jackdaws…”. Right now I’m not aware of anything else that can change the preview text in fontview. As mentioned by Bhikkhu Pesala, the Sample Text might be something that will be used in future Windows versions.
I did what Bhikkhu Pesala says but it appears to have no effect on Windows XP either. I didn’t think that windows would be in charge of placing that pangram in the font because I have other fonts that have even more wacky and outrageous pangrams that I thought maybe they were placed by the designers of the fonts during the creation of the font. I am running the demo version of the font editor and am considering purchasing it however I would really like control over what pangram is displayed on the exported ttf file. It seems like fontographer allows this in their software so I thought maybe High Logic also allowed it and I just couldn’t find it. Thanks for your help.
It might be something that will be used in future Windows versions. Windows XP is the current version, a future version is Windows Vista.
I didn’t think that windows would be in charge of placing that pangram in the font because I have other fonts that have even more wacky and outrageous pangrams that I thought maybe they were placed by the designers of the fonts during the creation of the font.
What fonts and what are the pangrams?
It seems like fontographer allows this in their software so I thought maybe High Logic also allowed it and I just couldn’t find it.
Maybe I’m missing something, what makes you think Fontographer can do this?
Windows looks into naming fields and Code Page Character Ranges, to determine whether is will use the default pangram or “Jackdaws…”.
As changing the naming field has no effect, we have to change the Code Page Character Range to force Windows to switch to another pangram?
What is the deciding factor here?
I ended up not being able to use pangrams because they never showed the entire character set – or the letters I was looking for, so migrated to one that would show everything.
The windows one always seemed tempermental about the font information shown.
I use one called FontMap from Gary Dix at http://www.ccountry.net/~dix/fontmap.htm which shows the character set and the complete font information on one screen. Very compact and fast. Handles installed or not installed and can be linked from another program. $20 or so.
Integrates well with FC and MT of course…