I want to edit a font that I am using to create a “new” character with an extension. The problem is that when I draw the other part in, it cuts off the top and bottom because it is too large. I tried to edit the height, but that makes the height range of all the characters larger and I don’t want that. I know part of the reason for this is so that characters don’t blend and overlap each other when typing, but I WANT this to happen in this case.
I attached a picture of what I want to do. The top left in black is how the font is now. The bottom right in red is what I want to add to the “O” in Society. I want to add the music note and have it go into the other letters (Like the “L” in Metal shown). If I change the height limit, it just spaces it so the characters are separated top and bottom normally, so the music note is on a separate line. How can I make it so that it does not cut off the top/bottom of the character and allows it to overlap?
You have to change the line-spacing in whichever Windows application you’re using the font. Instead of using single line-spacing you must use fixed line-spacing or a multiple line-spacing of less than one.
As you discovered, if your ascenders or descenders cross the WinAscent or WinDescent lines, then they just get cropped. Format, settings, metrics, maximum, calculate will ensure that the font metrics are valid for all glyphs in your font by increasing the WinAscent/WinDescent to encompass the tallest ascenders and longest descenders.
My Talapanna font also has extra long ascenders and descenders.
Talapanna.png
If I go in MS Word and change the line spacing to something below 1, it still crops off the top and bottom of the image. So if I put line spacing- Multiple at 0.5, they come closer together but it cuts off the top and bottom of the note. Still does not allow them to overlap like I want.
I do most of my word-processing in PagePlus, so I don’t have this problem. I don’t have Word, but I tested in OpenOffice Writer, which has the same limitation. However, in OpenOffice Draw it works. There ought to be a more flexible way of doing this, but I haven’t found one yet.
Oo Draw If.png
Font Creator can be used to form the logo in a single character of a font. Then it can be installed and added to any document as a character.
Constructed Logo - build the logo in a single glyph cell arranging the letters into the logo. Copy/paste/align/make simple as needed.
1-Constructed Logo.jpg
As part of the font
2-Part of Font.jpg
In a document. As a font it can be sized as big as you wish.
4-in Text as Font.jpg
The single character can alternately be converted to a graphic and included in an emailed document.
Didn’t even think to do it that way. So basically make the entire logo a single character and use it that way? That might work for what I am trying to do actually.
The single character can alternately be converted to a graphic and included in an emailed document.
That kind of confused me. What did you mean by it?
He means that there is no need to make it as a font at all. Either create a scalable WMF of the logo or save a transparent PNG or GIF at the resolution you need.
Metal Society.png
You can turn off Tools/Grid Options, Metrics Options and Guidelines Options to have an Edit window with nothing in it except the character then do a screen capture and save the results as a graphic. I frequently use Font Creator as my graphics program in this manner.