I am trying to create some Japanese subtitles and finding a challenge with the spacing. WHen I use the font vertically, it will not allow the adjustments between characters that the language needs to be correct. I downloaded a VDMX table creator from Microsoft, but noticed on page 60 if the manual for FC5 that VDMX is NOT supported.
Looking forward to further response,
I have no experience of CJK fonts, but I think you will find that if you can add VDMX tables with another tool, then Font Creator will preserve them.
When a font file is opened Font Creator loads all tables into memory, except for those tables that are excluded by settings from the Options window. Unsupported tables are saved back into the font file without modifications.
© 1997-2005 High-Logic The Netherlands
This is what the help file has to say about vertical text:
For CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) fonts that are intended to be used for vertical writing (in addition to horizontal writing), the required value for Typo Descender is that which describes the bottom of the design space (aka, em-square). For example, if the design space of the font extends from coordinates 0,-120 to 1000,880 (that is, a 1000x1000 box set 120 design units below the Latin baseline), then the value of Typo Descender must be set to -120. Failing to adhere to these requirements will result in incorrect vertical layout.
© 1997-2005 High-Logic The Netherlands
Got your message. I have correctly set the -35, 220 boundary settings to match the glyphs that are in the font.
Could it be the Unicode Range Settings? I am on a Windows XP platform and all those who will use this font can be requested to do the same.
Here are the current version 2 “calculated” settings. They still produce a vertical text that is trying to be monospaced istead of shrinking to the space surrounding the smaller hiragana and katakana characters.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Unicode Character Ranges:
Latin-1 Supplement
Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-El
IPA Extensions
Spacing Modifier Letters
Combining Diacritical Marks
Greek
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Cyrillic
Armenian
Hebrew
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Arabic
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Devanagari
Bengali
Gurrnukhi
Gujarati
Oriya
Tamil
Telugu
Kannada
Malayalam
Thai
Lao
Georgian
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Hangul Janno
Latin Extended Additional
Greek Extended
General Punctuation
Superscripts And Subscripts
Currency Symbols
Combining Diacritical Marks For Symbols
Letterlike Symbols
Number Forms
Arrows
Mathematical Operators
Miscellaneous Technical
Control Pictures
Optical Character Recognition
Enclosed Alphanumerics
BOH Drawing
Block Elements
Geometric Shapes
Miscellaneous Symbols
Dingbats
X CJK Symbols And Punctuation
X Hiragana
X Katakana
Bopomofo and Extended Bopomofo
Hangul Compatibility Jamo
CJK Miscellaneous
X Enclosed CJK Letters And Months
X CJK Compatibility
Hangul
Surrogates - implies that there is at least one codepoint beyc
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
X CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Radicals Supplement, Kangxi I
Private Use Area
X CJK Compatibility Ideographs
Alphabetic Presentation Forms
Arabic Presentation Forms-A
X Combining Half Marks
CJK Compatibility Forms
Small Form Variants
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
X Halfwidth And Fullwidth Forms
Specials
Tibetan
Syriac
Thaana
Sinhala
Myanmar
Ethiopic
Cherokee
Unified Canadian Syllables
Ogham
Runic
Khmer
Mongolian
Braille
Yi andYi Radicals
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
Reserved for Unicode SubRanges
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Code Page Character Ranges:
Latin 1(1252)
Latin 2: Eastern Europe (1250)
Cyrillic (1251)
Greek (1253)
Turkish (1254)
Hebrew (1255)
Arabic (125G)
Windows Baltic (1257)
Vietnamese (1258)
Reserved for Alternate ANSI
Reserved for Alternate ANSI
Reserved for Alternate ANSI
Reserved for Alternate ANSI
Reserved for Alternate ANSI
Reserved for Alternate ANSI
Reserved for Alternate ANSI
Thai (874)
X JlS/Japan (932)
X Chinese: Simplified chars–PRC and Singapore (93G)
X Korean Wansung (949)
X Chinese: Traditional chars-Taiwan and Hong Kong (950)
X Korean Johab(13G1)
Reserved for Alternate ANSI & OEM
Reserved for Alternate AN SI & OEM
Reserved for Alternate AN SI & OEM
Reserved for Alternate AN SI & OEM
Reserved for Alternate AN SI & OEM
Reserved for Alternate AN SI & OEM
Reserved for Alternate AN SI & OEM
Macintosh Character Set (US Roman)
X OEM Character Set
Symbol Character Set
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
IBM Greek (869)
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
Reserved for OEM
IBM Greek (8G9)
MS-DOS Russian (866)
MS-DOS Nordic (865)
Arabic (864)
MS-DOS Canadian French (863)
Hebrew (862)
MS-DOS Icelandic (861)
MS-DOS Portuguese (860)
IBM Turkish (857)
IBM Cyrillic; primarily Russian (855)
Latin 2 (852)
MS-DOS Baltic (775)
Greek; former 437 G (737)
Arabic; ASMO 708(708)
WE/Latin 1 (850)
US (437)
I’m not familiar with Japanese fonts, so maybe I’ve got it all wrong. Do you know of any font that is able to do what you want? Maybe it just isn’t possible to create a proportional Japanese font.