Saving preview sample text in the project file

[William]

At the moment, the only way for me to test colour glyphs is to use the FontCreator preview panel.

Please consider the illustrations in the following posts.

Colour font previews

Here is another image. [Quest_text_colour.png] Clicking on the image should display it in full. Please note that I have added four colours to the palette. Those are the colours used in the font. I typeset the text for the preview window text box using Serif PagePlus X5 and then I used copy and paste to paste the text into my notes in a WordPad file and then I copied and pasted from WordPad to the preview window text box. There are no return characters in the preview text: the technique that…

Colour font previews

[pixel_polka_colour.png] Clicking on the image should display it in full. William Overington 9 August 2013

They are from two different projects.

Each of them uses some Private Use Area characters.

Typesetting those preview texts took a while. For the first one I used Serif PagePlus X5 with the existing monochrome font, for the other one I used Alt codes directly entered in WordPad.

Now, I do usually make a WordPad file whenever I make a font and I try to keep detailed notes as I go along.

These have at least three purposes, as follows.

I can always go back to review what I did.

I have ready-made notes that I can post, in whole or in part, in this forum as part of my writing activity.

I can store ready-made preview sequences in the WordPad file ready to be copied and pasted into the preview panel text box of FontCreator.

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So, although I can copy and paste from a WordPad file into the preview panel text box of FontCreator, it would be more convenient if when I open a project file that the preview panel text box contains what it did when I previously closed the project file.

William Overington

26 August 2013