I have read and reread the “how to”'s and cannot locate what to do when I add a background into a font. I am using an existing font already on my computer and trying to personalize it with a .bmp image, can get that far, then cannot get it to save into the font…can someone please tell me how to do this??? Many thanks.
Hello MaMarty2.
I may not be of any help as I’m gonna say No! I hope I’m right and don’t lead you astray!
Font Creator Program uses curves and points and black and white to form glyphs or characters. A group of points forms a character.
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At one level, the FCP process is to edit a single character at a time. If you want to put something into every letter, you have to do it one letter at a time. So open the font in FCP. Edit a single glyph. You can copy and paste things between glyphs. So do your thing and Save As the font. (Read the book on this whole thing). But this doesn’t work at the Font level.
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You can import shapes which you can develop into characters or symbols or whatever. If you are trying to create new characters which look like a background that’ll work easily. But,
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I don’t think you want to import an image which becomes a background on all the characters of an existing font.
It will be translated into points and curves and shapes and then superimposed on another character. The resulting glyph would become a jangled mess of curves and shapes and you’d never see the alphabetic character underneath.
Similarly, I’m sure someone could lay a glyph over a background and then cut out the character pieces but it sounds hard and messy too.
In summary, unless you are willing to put in a lot of hours, creating a font with a permanent background is not the way to go for your first exercise.
You might look at paint programs which can do it far easier.
Good luck,
Dick Pape