How can I edit/replace just the capitals in a font?

[Danx]

I want to replace just the capitals in Arial with the capitals of Times New Roman.

I have absolutely no experience editing fonts.
Please tell me step by steps, or if you know any quick tutorials. Need this bad. Thank you!

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

The license of those two fonts doesn’t permit editing.

For fonts that you have a license to edit, it’s as easy as copy/paste, but accented letters ÁÉÍÓÚ etc., will also need adjusting.

Why do you need to do this, and which version of FontCreator are you using?

[Danx]

pro edition 7. I’m a web designer, so I figured this will be a lot easier and faster than using codes to style all capitals with Times New Roman..

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

You would have to embed the fonts on the web page with @FontFace, or no one else will see what you see if you edit fonts on your PC.

There has to be a better way. Doesn’t your web design program have paragraph and character styles?

[Danx]

I’m a web designer, I know about @fontface stuffs ;). I don’t use any webdesign program, only notepad++.
I was saying, it should be a lot better, than using PHP to detect upper/lower letters than add some CSS to the uppers, easy but a little too complicated..
And there are many fonts out there that permits editing and are similar to Arial and Times New Roman.
If I don’t get any helps here, then I will have to spend some time learning this program. The problem is, I can’t spend hours on this computer school.. Thanks.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

You don’t need to spend hours to learn how to copy/paste glyphs from one font to another.

You will lose hinting, and as I said before, there may be an issue with accented characters, but it’s not difficult.

FontCreator 7 can export fonts to WOFF format to save bandwidth if you wish, or you can use TTF.

[Danx]

Thanks. But another question, how do resize the characters? I only found this, but don’t get how to do it:

@Bhikkhu Pesala

Very easy. First set up guidelines for x height and CAPS height.
In the glyph edit window, Edit, Select all (Ctrl A), and stretch the character to the right size. Then adjust the side bearing by dragging the guides. Check that the base of the character is still on the baseline. Some characters like s or c have a bowl that should descend slightly below the baseline.

I want to make some characters bigger? Thanks.

[Alfred]

@Danx

Thanks. But another question, how do resize the characters? I only found this, but don’t get how to do it:

@Bhikkhu Pesala

Very easy. First set up guidelines for x height and CAPS height.
In the glyph edit window, Edit, Select all (Ctrl A), and stretch the character to the right size. Then adjust the side bearing by dragging the guides. Check that the base of the character is still on the baseline. Some characters like s or c have a bowl that should descend slightly below the baseline.

I want to make some characters bigger? Thanks.

In the glyph overview, double-click the character that you want to edit: it will be displayed in the glyph edit window, together with any guidelines that you have enabled. If you don’t see guidelines for CapHeight and x-Height, go to ‘Tools > Metrics Options…’ and put ticks in the relevant checkboxes.

When you ‘Select All’ (Ctrl+A) you’ll see a dotted bounding box around the glyph, with square adjustment handles: click on the top right handle and drag it upwards and to the right to make the character bigger. The right side bearing will become smaller (and probably negative) so you will need to drag its guide to the right to make it bigger again.

[Bhikkhu_Pesala]

Since you have the Professional Edition, you can use the Glyph transformer to scale a range of selected glyphs by a percentage, preserving the side-bearings while you do so.

Select and copy the glyphs that you wish to resize in the glyph overview as there is no undo for Transformation. Run the Transformation script to scale the glyphs, paste the originals back in place, then undo the paste operation. Check in the Glyph Edit window that the result is what you want. Redo the paste operation and repeat if it’s not.

Keep glyphs within the bounds of WinAscent WinDescent. Recalculate the metrics in Font, Properties, Metrics, maximum, recalculate to set the new Caps-height. After that, you will need to make the composite glyphs simple, and then complete composites again. The screen shot shows what happens to composite glyphs after enlarging their base glyphs.