Hello, is it possible to export the metric data of each character in my font into a text file? (preferably in xml format)
Not that I know of. Why do you need to do this?
I want to create a list of width values (ie, the distance between RSB and LSB) for all my characters. Is it possible to get such an export?
That doesn’t answer my question, but I already told you that as far as I know, there is no way to do this with FontCreator.
I would like to produce such a list, too. In particular, I would like a list of left and right bearings. ChatGPT had some ideas in XML, but none of them worked.
Why I want this…
I used the Optical Metrics settings in FontCreator, but once my joining glyphs are added, some glyphs simply don’t look well-spaced, especially as some letters are unjoined - accented characters, for example. In many cases, the bearings need to be adjusted by inspection, and possibly applied to the whole class.
As I’ve never created a font before or used font tools, it may be that my technique doesn’t conform to what you would expect from experienced users of FontCreator. My glyphs, “joining glyphs” and classes are carefully named so that I can generate the code using the systematic logic of Microsoft Excel. The feature code for lower case letters is quite lengthy (in my view) with ten classes based on the right side shape and fourteen classes based on the left side shape. That means there are potentially 140 different “joining glyphs” although a few are blank.
(The Excel spreadsheet is not simple, but adding or moving glyphs and classes is not too difficult.)
Incidentally, I’m more at home with the Feature File Editor than with the OpenType Designer interface.
I think it’s obvious that the left and right bearings are held in the project file, so it should be possible, in principle, to extract them. If there is still no straightforward way to do this, could I please recommend it for a future release of FontCreator?
Regards