I have font that I am currently using with a charactrer style within body text. There are three things that are really bothering me about this font.
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It’s always 4-5 points bigger than the other fonts, in other words when this font and for example Times are set to 13 pts this font is about 4-5 points bigger.
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The spaces within this font are about couble the size even when I set the font 5 points lower. My workaround for 1 is to set the font 4-5 points less, but for some reason the space charcter is still larger. I’ve tried editing the space charcter within the font but it does absolutely nothing.
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The hyphen is extremely small (yes, small). I’ve tried editin this, too, and it hasn’t worked. I have to show substituted glyphs checked within InDesign, and these are not showing up as substituted.
This is a Hebrew font. I’d appreciate any help to try and solve this puzzle. 1 wouldn’t bother me so much if it wouldn’t be for the problem with the spaces. I just make the font smaller, but the spaces make it look terrible.
See this thread on Resizing Fonts.
I don’t know why the space width is not changing. Maybe InDesign gets the space from some parameter for right to left fonts. All I can think of trying is Format, Settings, Ranges, Average Character Width, Calculate. You may have to change the version to 3 to do this. If you change the space width, you should also change the width of the no break space (decimal codepoint 160)
Looking at MikeHebrew, which is the only Hebrew font I have, I note that he has set the space width to 598 and the no berak space to 265 while the units per em is only 1000. The space width should usually be about 1/4 or 1/5 of the em square, i.e. about 200 in this case Arial uses a value of 569 while Times New Roman uses a value of 512 while the units per em value is 2048. I don’t know if Hebrew fonts require more spacing.
Unbelievable, I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. I was using Adobe Type Manager Deluxe, and I had forgotten to remove the font and replace it after editing. So none of my editing was coming through. It still was using the old font. Now I just edited the space acharacter and the hyphen and it looks fine.
BTW, is there any safe and easy way to get the font dowt to the correct size?
Already answered in the previous post.
Maybe i misread the link, but you seemed to be talking about changing the em value woithout changing the actual font. Iwould like to have all font characters become 4-5 points smaller.
Just use the method the other way around.
If your font already uses 2048 funits per em and you want to make it smaller by 10%:
- Backup your font and work on a copy
- Change the units per em to 2253
- Select All, Copy
- Change the units per em back to 2048
- Paste
One can also use the glyph transformer, but this will remove any character hinting, whereas the former method will not. As long as the transformation is small, the hinting may still be OK. After transformation, recalculate the metrics. Format, Settings, Metrics, Maximum, Recalculate.
You may also need to adjust the metrics on the Format, Settings, General, and Post tabs. Adjust them by 10% If the units per em value hasn’t changed, then you might need to adjust superscript, strikeout, and underline offsets by 10%. Underline and strikeout weights and position can be checked with Test Font (F5)