Mass transfer of value fields ?

[Bernie Cossentino]

Hello,

Does Font Creator allow the facilitation of transferring values from one value field to another for numerous pairs? For example, if I wish to transfer all my right side "XPlacement" values to the left XAdvance, can this be done as a mass edit for all affected pairs in a lookup (or, if in the editor...as a selection?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

If a kerning lookup has any XPlacement Values, the Show Advanced Settings checkbox will disappear and the pos lookups will all have four values like this (I added an XPlacement value of 5 for @hyphen @J_Caps).

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  subtable "Subtable Hyphen" {
    pos @hyphen @J_Caps <5 0 -124 0> <0>;
    pos @hyphen @M_Caps <0 0 29 0> <0>;

So, presumably your lookup table looks something like this:

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  subtable "Subtable Hyphen" {
    pos @hyphen @J_Caps <-124 0 0 0> <0>;
    pos @hyphen @M_Caps <29 0 0 0> <0>;

You will need to run three replace operations:
1. Replace "<" with "<0 0 "
2. Replace " 0 0>" with ">"
3. Replace "<00 0>" with "<0>"

Please test carefully before saving any changes.

[Bernie Cossentino]

If a kerning lookup has any XPlacement Values, the Show Advanced Settings checkbox will disappear and the pos lookups will all have four values like this (I added an XPlacement value of 5 for @hyphen @J_Caps).

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  subtable "Subtable Hyphen" {
    pos @hyphen @J_Caps <5 0 -124 0> <0>;
    pos @hyphen @M_Caps <0 0 29 0> <0>;

So, presumably your lookup table looks something like this:

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  subtable "Subtable Hyphen" {
    pos @hyphen @J_Caps <-124 0 0 0> <0>;
    pos @hyphen @M_Caps <29 0 0 0> <0>;

You will need to run three replace operations:
1. Replace "<" with "<0 0 "
2. Replace " 0 0>" with ">"
3. Replace "<00 0>" with "<0>"

Please test carefully before saving any changes.

Thank you Bhikkhu,

I already do some of this. Unfortunately, it's difficult when you also have YPlacement values to deal with, as is my case.