Hello,
I’m quite new to this and am on day 3 of my evaluation. I think this is going to be fun if the little things don’t drive me crazy first.
I have a small font created for drawing maps of a MUD that I play.
It’s quite simple and only has 23 characters (including caps and the space).
It is a symbol font since I want the characters to line up not only horizontally, but vertically.
This works fine in the font tester. Everything looks great, until I try to print the characters in Word. Every third line (and on rare occasions every second line) prints with a horizontal white line between my characters.
I also have a vertical white line that shows up after my fourth character and then after every third character after that). The inconsistancy is driving me nuts.
I highly suspect this is in my settings somewhere, but don’t understand how they are all supposed to be related. My em size is 2000, my left bearing iis 0 and my right bearing is 2000. Winascent is 2000, Windecent is 0, and type gap is 0. Ascender is 2000,Descender is 2000 and line gap is 0.
I have played with changing the ascender and descender values, but don’t have any real luck - there is always a white line somewhere.
And of course that hasn’t even touched on the vertical lines running through the printout.
One other thing - my font has a black outline that reaches the full 0 to 2000 range of the grid.
Please help.
Theoophilus
hello theophilus – hope you’re not still looking for an answer to your post two months later! (30-day free trial about up?)
- I have a white on black font that has Win Ascent set to 988 (Win Descent at 0). Each glyph is 991 tall (Glyph Boundings). Advance width is also 3 pts smaller than the actual glyph design. This has created if not an overlap, at least a tight fit between glyphs eliminating any white line. (It took some time to get it all together).
It has a black space glyph designed with the same amount of overlap.
- Check MS Word that it treats your text as left justified and doesn’t try to fill with extra widths. (I’m not sure which extra-space method it uses – so it might be ok.)
Word spacing can be tightened up by going to “Format/Font/Character Spacing/Spacing/Condensed” then entering some value to get them closer together.
You can adjust the font spacing between lines (leading). Go to “Format/Paragraph/Indents and Spacing/Spacing/Line Spacing” and use “Exactly” with some point value. This will force the lines together. Adjust at will.
Hope this answer is relevant and accurate, if not timely!
Dick