I finally got a new computer and had to reinstall Fun Creator, but I can’t find how to change the Test Font routine to show the notdef image in lieu of the Arial character. It looks like this and I miss the rectangles. Could someone help please.
The .notdef glyph is not mapped to a character code point.
The way to display the .notdef glyph of a particular font is to include in the test text a character code point for a character for which there is not a glyph in the particular font.
For example, here is the code point of a Private Use Area character, namely U+E6C5, copied from a post in the Gallery section of this forum.
As long as a glyph for U+E6C5 is not in the font, that should display as the .notdef glyph.
William Overington
2 January 2014
You most likely also have a more recent version of Windows which comes with different display settings for fonts. I’m not sure but it might use a font fallback mechanism in case it discovers a glyph is missing in the actual font.
This page provides some more background information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688134
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William: This seems to be a difference between WinXP to Windows 7 as Erwin suggests. The Characters are mapped under the notdef glyph as usual, just not displaying on the Test Font display.
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Erwin:
a. (7 pages of technical small font??? Com’on!!!). Understood rationale however.
b. When I inserted a blank glyph the Arial for that character went away as you’d expect. Has the notdef character disappeared then forever?
c. The Arial seems to be positioned below the line and gets truncated and not considered with setting Metrics - note the bottom of the brackets. Do you know if this alignment is fixable? See xyz.
Ooops! I had read that as Font Creator and I had answered accordingly.
William
I think we were meant to read ‘Fun Creator’ as ‘FontCreator’! Aren’t they the same thing? 