Preview toolbar, F8, has a group of letter choices, such as, a-z, A-Z, or 0-), etc. How are these setup? How can they be changed?
I can key in new values which stay around until they are manually replaced, but I’m looking for a permanent solution…
To avoid typing the text, select some glyphs in the Overview and press shortcut “p”.
To add strings to the available list (or to remove any you never use), edit “Preview.txt” in the FontCreator installation folder (This doesn’t seem to be documented in help).
Yes, that worked just fine. Thank you.
I have couple of word samples which help with kerning (there are thousands of word samples out there of course). Good to be able to go from one to another and back again…
Almost think I might have heard of this but clearly forgot about it. I will add the documentation in the table for the future.
(Interesting Fontlab and TypeTool have files named Preview.txt …)
FYI Mine:
First one is for quote spacing…
‘A’ “A” ‘A’ “A” ‘B’ “B” ‘B’ “B” ‘C’ “C” ‘C’ “C” ‘D’ “D” ‘D’ “D” ‘E’ “E” ‘E’ “E” ‘F’ “F” ‘F’ “F” ‘G’ “G” ‘G’ “G” ‘H’ “H” ‘H’ “H” ‘I’ “I” ‘I’ “I” ‘J’ “J” ‘J’ “J” ‘K’ “K” ‘K’ “K” ‘L’ “L” ‘L’ “L” ‘M’ “M” ‘M’ “M” ‘N’ “N” ‘N’ “N” ‘O’ “O” ‘O’ “O” ‘P’ “P” ‘P’ “P” ‘Q’ “Q” ‘Q’ “Q” ‘R’ “R” ‘R’ “R” ‘S’ “S” ‘S’ “S” ‘T’ “T” ‘T’ “T” ‘U’ “U” ‘U’ “U” ‘V’ “V” ‘V’ “V” ‘W’ “W” ‘W’ “W” ‘X’ “X” ‘X’ “X” ‘Y’ “Y” ‘Y’ “Y” ‘Z’ “Z” ‘Z’ “Z”
Long alphabetic group (broken into 4 segments because there’s no scrolling in Preview window):
Able Ache Advert Aegis Aft Age Ahe Ails Ajar Akin Aloe Amish And Aone Ape Aqua Are Ascot Atlas Auto Avon Awe Axe Aye Azo Ao Band Bet Bing Bloat Bog Bring Bumpy Byte Bo Carry Celar Cinthia Cope Crap Cult Cycle Co Dark Demon Dingy Dope Dumb Do Each Eels Einar Eons Euchre Ever Ewer Exit Eyes Eo Fact Fever Fire Font Framer Fur Fyrd F-l Gayle Gentle Girl Gnome Go Gonot Grinning Gulf Gwen Gyro
Harder Help Hilton Honor HunkHv Hymn Ho Ian Ieo Iggy Iillian Ion Iugia Iyaaa Io Jacky Jester Jimmy Joint Junk Jo Kangaroo Keep Kill Kline Kop Kudees Kwick Kva Kyle Ko Lay Learned Listing Load Lung Lw Lynch Mail Meal Minx Mode Music Myth Mo Nail Next Nile Nooky Numb No Oatmeal Oer Offer Ogor Oink Oolong Out Over Oyster Oo Painter Peal Pile Pjb Plaster Pointer Printer Putt Pygmy Pol P-l
Qanat Qels Qix Qon Quest Qo Rate Red Right Royal Run Ryal Ro Sallie Scuzz Sensation Shell Sink Smelly Snowball Soul Spoke Sqish Stoner Sung Svelt Swap Symantic So Tail Teal Them Timer Toll Trustee Tsing Tumbs Twizzlers Typing To T-l Uarco Ue Ui Umbrella Under Uo Upper Ursula User Utterly Uu Uv Uwe Uo Vain Vc Veto Vine Vlad Vow Vroor Vs Vulgar Vying Vol V-l
Wale Wet What Window Wm Wow Wren Wsa Wte Wud Wxe Wynde Wol W-l Xanth Xelo Xi Xo Xu Xylo Xo X- Yale Yddes Yearling Yicks Yoyo Ypring Yrs Ys Yuck Yviye Yz Yo Y- Zanzabar Zellis Zion Zope Zulu Zyle Zo