Changing the proportion of width and height

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CynicJJ
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Changing the proportion of width and height

Post by CynicJJ »

Hi!

I have a problem here. I am a software engineer and use fonts created by Font Creator in my own program.

The problem is the width of the font appears larger than original in my application. I could have controlled the proportion within my program, but then it doesn't look good.

So, what i would like to do is make the width size shorter when creating fonts so that even if it gets widen in my program, it still looks alright.

Then, how do I control the proportion of the width and height?

Thank you.
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Post by Erwin Denissen »

Right now there is no global transformation functionality, you will have to go through every glyph.

However there seems to be a workaround for this:
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Post by Joop Jagers »

The workaround doesn't change the proportions of the glyphs. It changes their height *and* width. As far as I know there's no way to change only the height or only the width of all glypohs in a font at the same time.
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Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

The transformation tool should do the job well enough, but the glyphs have to be resized one by one to make them all, say, 80% of the width. A keyboard macro program could be used to speed up the process.
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