Sometimes I have tons of stylistic sets in my font, and I have to manually add PUA code to them
$E000, $E001, $E002, and so on,
in order for them to work in photoshop and *other softwares:
*reference: https://www.creativefabrica.com/the-ult ... ded-fonts/
Is there a batch function available to do this hard work for me?
Maybe in the Transform Tool,
add this function: Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs
Or a function that sets a free PUA code for the uncoded glyphs. (this could go in the validator).
(or set a custom range, if possible)
Any thoughts on this?
Glyph Names > Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs
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Re: Glyph Names > Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs
You can add a new character range, then use copy and paste special to only paste the codepoints.
Re: Glyph Names > Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs
Thanks for the quick response Erwin, I really appreciate that.
What you suggested would work yes, but I'd have to re-modify every opentype feature I've ever put in the Opentype Designer... and there's a bunch of them. (ligatures, stylistic sets, contextual alternates logic and so on)
Is there another way without re-doing all of that?
What you suggested would work yes, but I'd have to re-modify every opentype feature I've ever put in the Opentype Designer... and there's a bunch of them. (ligatures, stylistic sets, contextual alternates logic and so on)
Is there another way without re-doing all of that?
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Re: Glyph Names > Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs
That is exactly what you avoid that way!
Re: Glyph Names > Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs
Oh.
Okay so I look up to Special Paste - very cool feature indeed!
I was not aware of it.
I did as you said now, made new character range for the Private Use Area code-points (999 of them),
and copied my "unmapped" characters and special-pasted them into the new code-points
but the opentype features didn't move to the new pasted glyphs, it stayed with the old ones (which is not what I need).
Here's a two minute video to demonstrate exactly what I did (and whats written here):
https://youtu.be/PUeS_uymaTU
Any advice?
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Re: Glyph Names > Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs
I think what was intended was to copy the code-points from the inserted PUA glyphs to your unmapped glyphs, not the other way around. There is an option on the Paste Special dialogue to override existing code-points.Hafonton wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:17 pmI did as you said now, made new character range for the Private Use Area code-points (999 of them), and copied my "unmapped" characters and special-pasted them into the new code-points but the opentype features didn't move to the new pasted glyphs, it stayed with the old ones (which is not what I need).
Re: Glyph Names > Add PUA Unicode Values to Selected Glyphs
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 10:32 pmI think what was intended was to copy the code-points from the inserted PUA glyphs to your unmapped glyphs, not the other way around. There is an option on the Paste Special dialogue to override existing code-points.Hafonton wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 9:17 pmI did as you said now, made new character range for the Private Use Area code-points (999 of them), and copied my "unmapped" characters and special-pasted them into the new code-points but the opentype features didn't move to the new pasted glyphs, it stayed with the old ones (which is not what I need).
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