I really liked font creator. one clarification.
When i press “Fill-Outlines” the fonts out line is shown. now i want my new font to be in that state. i need to show out line only. how to do this?
I want all the characters in font window to appear as outlines. i want to test/save/install the font then.
The fill outlines options is for display only — it is a wire-frame mode for use during the design process.
To make an outline font requires white (anticlockwise) contours inside the black (clockwise) ones.
There is a glyph transformation that will make an outline font for you if you’re using the Professional Edition or the Trial Version (the same program, but limited to 30-days use).
The selected glyphs will now be outline glyphs. Examine them to see if the result is what you want, and repeat the process with a different script or different values if not.
See the Working with Transformations thread in the Tutorials forum. Reply here if anything is unclear.
It is also possible to produce the outline effect by applying a sequence of two individual glyph transformations, namely thin and hollow. Using the individual glyph transformations gives greater choice of how the outline effect is produced. It is possible to produce the outline effect whilst keeping the overall size of the designs exactly the same size.
The eighth post in the following thread is about how I produced an outline version of one of my own fonts, Chronicle Text.
http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/chronicle-text-font/668/1
A direct link to the post is as follows.
http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/chronicle-text-font/668/8
William Overington
20 October 2008
This is a better method, which we should adopt in the next version of FontCreator. Save the following code from notepad as Outline.xml in C:\Program Files\High-Logic\FontCreator\Transform\ and let us know your results
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<DATA>
<TransformScript>
<OtherComments>
<Content>Outline Medium
This script creates an outline font with a 20 funit stroke weight. It preserves the original height and width of the glyphs. </Content>
</OtherComments>
<EffectsThin>
<Horizontal>10</Horizontal>
<Vertical>10</Vertical>
<PreserveBearings>TRUE</PreserveBearings>
</EffectsThin>
<EffectsHollow>
<Horizontal>20</Horizontal>
<Vertical>20</Vertical>
<PreserveBearings>TRUE</PreserveBearings>
</EffectsHollow>
</TransformScript>
</DATA>
Thank you for your kind comments.
I notice that when using EffectsThin and EffectsHollow that in each case the line TRUE is included.
Actually, when I have carried out the process manually I have not checked the Preserve side bearings checkbox for either effect of the sequence. If the checkbox is checked for each effect, then the Advance Width of each selected glyph will be altered twice.
The net effect of either (a) checking the checkbox for both effects, or (b) not checking the checkbox for both effects, will maybe always be the same, though I cannot say congruently that it will always be the same.
However, it seems that it might be better not to change the Advance Width at all rather than to change it twice, just in case it does not go back to where it started for every glyph which is processed.
I tried the transform in your post with my most recent font, which font has, in fact, been on the web for some days, though I have not added a link previously. The transform worked well, except that the .notdef glyph had a few validation errors introduced.
Here is a link to the font in case readers would like to try repeating my experiment of trying the new transform script.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/FONTV005.TTF
William Overington
27 October 2008