Hey guys, I hope you can help me.
I am trying to find a way to create pixel fonts and am having a lot of trouble. I know FontCreator is not ideal for that, but here is how I am going about it:
First, I use this website to create my pixel font: http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit_canvas.html
Once I am done creating my characters, I click the Create Font button which makes a TTF that generally seems to work well. The problem is, that simple creation tool allows for 10 vertical pixels for shapes, 2 pixels of which are below the baseline. My pixel font consists mostly of little icons and pictures, rather than letters, and I really have to use the full height. This means that when I use this font in conjunction with other pixel fonts, it appears totally misaligned and shifted down by 2 pixels, making my designs look almost like subscripts relative to other fonts.
In FontCreator, first I will select all and go to Tools->Glyph Transformer and shift everything up by 200 (2 pixels). This places the shapes above some of the ascender lines, which needs fixing. I have tried every combination of calculating or manually setting font metrics, etc, in FontCreator’s Format->Settings dialog, but when I save and use the font, (and specifically in Adobe Flash, where I need this font) either the top is cut off, the bottom is cut off, or it may display OK in its original location, but then has the problem of being annoyingly too low on the baseline.
After I shift the glyphs up by 200, all glyphs sit between y=0 and y=1000, so in Format->Settings->Metrics, I assumed that I could do this:
Typo Ascender, Win Ascent, Ascender = 1000
All descenders and line gaps = 0
This actually seems to work fine if I use this font on Flash on the MAC. But on Windows, it insists on chopping off the top or bottom 2 pixels.
I know this is a pretty specific set of requirements, but I would be super happy with any help to try ans resolve this. I am not very knowledgeable about font metrics, so that doesn’t help, and it might be an issue related to Flash. However, I have in the past been able to alter a font as created by http://www.pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit_canvas.html and have is display correctly (after shifting up by 2 pixels) in another app, but it took so many random guesses at modifications that I would never be able to reproduce it. Ironically, that font worked on Windows but NOT on Mac.
If anyone is inclined to help, just create a simple font at that website and then use FontCreator to shift it up by 2 pixels and see if it can be made to work right in Adobe Flash. Thanks very very much!