Can any person tell me how to set an English / European font,
so that it is recognized as a rotate-able font?
I Have a casio label printer that accepts these fonts. However I cannot
find any English types on the Internet. Oriental types are common in
this format.
Thanks,
I do not know the answer to this problem, but as no one else has replied I thought that I would try to make some suggestions.
Oriental types are common in this format.
I started a new font in Font Creator 5.0 as a test and started to look for somewhere which might be the place.
I found that Format | Settings… and choosing the Header panel offers Font Header Flags. I clicked on the Edit… button and found that there are various flags including some for which the meanings are not apparent.
If you could open an oriental font and have a look at what flags are set in that section for that font, then maybe that could be a clue to how to achieve the desired result.
I notice that some of the fields are labelled as Apple specific field yet that does not necessarily mean that they are not used by a PC application or by a printer: for example, when producing a pdf using a PC with the Serif PagePlus programme, the font name is taken from the Apple Macintosh Roman platform postscript name of the font, not from the Windows postscript name of the font. With Font Creator 5.0 both names are the same if one has used the Tools | AutoNaming… facility, so the effect is not noticeable, yet the Macintosh Roman platform postscript name of the font is stored as plain text in the font whereas the Windows postscript name of the font is not stored as plain text, so the Macintosh Roman platform postscript name of the font is easier for an application to transcribe. I started fontmaking with a marvellous program named Softy, which was written some years ago now and was shareware for 15 pounds sterling (the United Kingdom currency). Softy was intended just to get people started in the days when the only alternative fontmaking programs were very expensive and was specific for Windows on a PC. Yet Softy did include a postscript name for every font, it was always New and could not be altered from within the Softy program. So some of my early pdfs on the web have New as the font if one looks in the Adobe Reader File | Document Properties | Fonts… of some of the pdfs available on the following web page.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/usinggraphicsandfonts.htm
For example the following.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/moon.PDF
That font is Quest text and the postscript name (Questtext without a space) can be found in the later pdf from the same web page.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/manager.PDF
It may be necessary to download to local storage and then use the Acrobat Reader if one wishes to observe the effect. The effect occurred not with the fonts supplied by the maker of the desktop publishing package but only with my own fonts. I found the answer in this forum by the helpfulness of Erwin Denissen.
http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/the-font-name-displayed-by-adobe-acrobat-in-an-altered-font/658/1
Anyway, I digress, yet hopefully have shown that just because something is intended for the Apple Macintosh Roman platform it does not necesarily mean that it is only used by Apple Macintosh computers.
Hopefully this has all sparked interest and hopefully the solution to your problem can be found.
Does anyone know if any such oriental fonts are available on the web please so that they can be downloaded and their header flags examined?
William Overington
18 March 2006