Fixed width characters

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Hi, I’m a coder so excuse my lack of knowledge on this subject…

We need to make all the characters within a .ttf font a fixed width, and are having real trouble doing so.

We’re using Arial Black and what we need is that if, for example, at our selected point size and after converting to bitmap the ‘W’ character was 16 pixels wide then all other characters in the font should also be drawn at 16 pixels wide.

The conversion to bitmap is taken care of - it’s literally just making all the characters in a .ttf fixed width that’s the problem.

Can we do it with Font Creator, and if so how ?

Thanks,
Marc

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Try this.

Load the font…

Select TOOLS–> AUTO METRICS -->Select the Glyphs you want to make Monospaced–>Next–>Select “FIXED” and adjust as needed… then “FINISH”

The GLYPHS are now fixed width.

It’s still up to you to CENTER the glyphs inside the width you specified in the “FIXED” settings, but it’s not much work to get it right…

You can use the Glyph transformer to center the glyphs…

I did this to the default windows ARIAL BOLD TTF file in just a few steps…

Go for it!

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Excellent,

I’ll pass this on to the artist. Thanks a lot !!!

Marc