i am new to editing fonts properley, although dabbled many times before.
i have modifed a freeware font and want to assign certain keyboard characters to font characters, but the problem is only some of them are being assigned. i found out i need to add names to them which is enabled with the postscript option turned on, and then using the “post” menu command.
the font never had any names to characters before at all.
Iain.
Based on the information you’ve provided, I can think of numerous things that might have gone wrong. So please give us some more specific information, e.g. how did you alter the font, what characters do you want to assign, etc.
this is a symbol font, and i have copied the main characters that i really wanted and replaced the characters that had 0123456789-=
these were of no use as they were only standard numbers etc. i slightly modified, as in moved the black shapes within the character on some of them, and i have also pasted one or two images in. they all type ok, but they are just they are not on keys (below) i have told them to be on.
0123456789-=
i also named the keys one, two, three etc as they were all blank.
Adding postscript names is not needed, and won’t help. The Symbol Chars should reveal what characters are mapped to the glyphs. Just right-click on the Glyph Overview window, and select Caption → Symbol Chars, as shown in the screenshot below.
If you expected different character descriptions in the glyph’s captions, you need to check the Character to Glyph Index Mappings.
Do let us know your results.
excellent that is what i wanted. i thought the view i had before was what glyph was assigned to what key, obviously not. i now see i am missing a number 9 and 0 glyph, probably deleted it when i have been messing around not knowing what i was doing i guess. is there a way to get them back or should i download the font again and modify it the correct way?
many thanks for your help.
strange this, now that i have downloaded the font file, when i use the caption/symbol chars i dont have any names above the glphs at all. i have to select caption/postscipt?
Then the font isn’t a Symbol font after all. The Symbol Chars caption only works with Symbol fonts.
can i change it to a symbol font so i know what keys relate to what symbol?
Yes, that is possible, but I would only advise to do so if the font actually contains symbols, icons, pictures, signatures, etc. If the font contains digits and letters from the (Latin) alphabet, then keep it a Unicode font. Do consult the user manual, as it contains a topic that describes how to change a Unicode font to a Symbol font.
Terrific Erwin - another hidden feature! I never looked into that Caption thing. Really good help. Are there others I’m unaware of? Dick
Yeah, Erwin, Please tell us all the things we don’t know!
(Perhaps this website is too small?)
No more hidden features, but I’ll try to add some more in future releases 