FontCreator new font values for Win Ascent and Win Descent

[William]

Thank you for replying.

@Bhikkhu Pesala

You have asked this question before.

I have now located that post.

Why is the default CapHeight of a new font 1434 font units?

As some readers may know I am experimenting with trying to produce a font by using a photograph of part of the inscription from the Trajan column. https://forum.high-logic.com/t/trajan-the-movie/2036/1 The letters in the original inscription are of various sizes, so I am thinking of trying to scale the images within the background facility of FontCreator so that the letters in the font are all of a consistent size, and also to move the image around so that they have a baseline value of 0 and a…

@Bhikkhu Pesala

Are you still using version 5.6?

Yes.

William Overington

25 November 2009