i’m using a font i made for lab labels at work. it’s being printed onto small slide labels from a design view in excell. the problem is that no matter how i set the metrics there’s a HUGE empty space above any given letter. How do i get rid of the space?
Although you’ve already experimented with the metrics, I’m going to explain it anyway:
To change the top and bottom of a font; select Settings from the Format menu to open the Font Settings window and select the Metrics page. Here you can change the Win Ascent (Top) and Win Descent (Bottom). You should also update the other ascender and descender values. To update all values at once, press the Calculate button.
If this isn’t helpful you might also want to try this:
In Format->Tables you might have to remove the VDMX table. If Windows does not locate this table in a font, it will calculate those values itself. This will take some extra milliseconds the first time it is loaded into the rasterizer. I don’t think we should worry about that.
To regenerate this table you could use a utility from Microsoft called CacheTT, located at:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/tools/tools.htm
CacheTT is a utility to enable the modification of TrueType and TrueType Open files. Modifications include creation/ modification of one or more of the tables VDMX, hdmx and LTSH by calculating and caching values obtained from the Rasterizer. The resulting font is a complete and correct font.
Let us know your results.
How do i get rid of the space?
It might be a good idea to try printing some lines of text prepared using your font using Microsoft WordPad, just in case the space is due to some feature of the process of making the labels and not a feature of the font itself.
William Overington