Suppose that FontCreator 7 were to have the following two facilities added to it: would that solve the problem?
- Import a postscript and code point file.
The font designer selects a number of cells in the overview window.
Import postscript and code point file
FontCreator 7 would ask for a file name, a text file.
The file is read.
If, say, 50 cells are highlighted and the file has 50 lines, then the postscript name if any) and the code point (if any) on line 1 of the file is assigned to the first highlighted cell, the postscript name and the code point (if any) on line 2 of the file is assigned to the second highlighted cell, and so on, for all 50 cells.
If, say, 50 cells are highlighted and the file has 40 lines, then the postscript name (if any) and the code point (if any) on line 1 of the file is assigned to the first highlighted cell, the postscript name and the code point (if any) on line 2 of the file is assigned to the second highlighted cell, and so on, for the first 40 cells: the remaining cells are unaltered.
If, say, 50 cells are highlighted and the file has 60 lines, then the postscript name if any) and the code point (if any) on line 1 of the file is assigned to the first highlighted cell, the postscript name and the code point (if any) on line 2 of the file is assigned to the second highlighted cell, and so on, for all 50 cells: the information on the last 10 lines of the file not being used.
- Export a postscript and code point file.
The font designer selects a number of cells in the overview window.
Export postscript and code point file
FontCreator 7 would ask for a file name, a text file.
If the file does not already exist then the file is generated or, if the file does already exist then the font designer is asked if the existing file can be overwritten.
The file is written.
If, say, 50 cells are highlighted then the file has 50 lines. The postscript name (if any) and the code point (if any) of the first highlighted cell is written to line 1 of the file, the postscript name (if any) and the code point (if any) of the second highlighted cell is written to line 2 of the file, and so on, for all 50 cells.
Format of each line of the postscript and code point file.
Each line of the file can be of one of four formats. Here shown for a cell with a glyph of a ct ligature using ct as the example postscript name and U+E707 as the example code point.
ct $E707
ct
$E707
blank, that is nothing at all, not the word blank as such
The text file could be produced or edited in WordPad or Notepad if so desired.
Would this facility solve the problem? Or could the above idea be improved at all and a better specification produced?
If so, such a facility could be requested in the FontCreator - Requests and Enhancements section of this forum.
William Overington
18 May 2013
, but the FontCreator setup installs them in the application folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\High-Logic FontCreator), while FontCreator looks for them in your application data folder: