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Could High-Logic consider saving the preview sample text in the project file please?

William Overington

24 August 2013

That's an interesting idea, William. What would be the benefit of 'per project' sample text?

At the moment, the only way for me to test colour glyphs is to use the FontCreator preview panel.

Please consider the illustrations in the following posts.

viewtopic.php?p=19804#p19804

viewtopic.php?p=19836#p19836

They are from two different projects.

Each of them uses some Private Use Area characters.

Typesetting those preview texts took a while. For the first one I used Serif PagePlus X5 with the existing monochrome font, for the other one I used Alt codes directly entered in WordPad.

Now, I do usually make a WordPad file whenever I make a font and I try to keep detailed notes as I go along.

These have at least three purposes, as follows.

I can always go back to review what I did.

I have ready-made notes that I can post, in whole or in part, in this forum as part of my writing activity.

I can store ready-made preview sequences in the WordPad file ready to be copied and pasted into the preview panel text box of FontCreator.

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So, although I can copy and paste from a WordPad file into the preview panel text box of FontCreator, it would be more convenient if when I open a project file that the preview panel text box contains what it did when I previously closed the project file.

William Overington

26 August 2013

William wrote:Now, I do usually make a WordPad file whenever I make a font and I try to keep detailed notes as I go along.

You can now do that in the User Notes toolbar within FontCreator, and those notes are saved in your project file.

Thank you.

William

However, unfortunately it does not seem possible, at the time of writing this note, to store and recover plane 0 Private Use Area characters from the User Notes that are built into FontCreator.

William

This will be fixed with the next upcoming release.