Hi, I'd need some advice please: I have a bunch of fonts made out of individual dots. (e.g.: ozone font)
Is there any quick and simple way of decreasing the diameter of the dots to 10% from 100%? So the position of the dots sould be the same but the diameter would be 10% of the original.
Thanks,
Api
Newbie question about font modification
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Re: Newbie question about font modification
This is not practical for hundreds of dots, but for a dozen or so in each glyph it might feasible:
- Open the glyph edit window
- Show the Transform Toolbar
- Select the scale tab
- Lock the aspect ratio
- Select one of the dots
- Set the scale to 10%
- Click "Apply"
- Select the next dot
- Click "Apply"
- Repeat ad nauseum
Re: Newbie question about font modification
Does this constitute a request for the feature "scale each contour independently"?
Re: Newbie question about font modification
Thanks for the quick answer.
1.) Yes, there are thousands of dots in each font file so the dot-by-dot scaling would be way too labor intensive.
2.) Yes, I have to scale every single dots to 10% without moving them. In Adobe Illustrator there is a command "Scale each" (?) which does that, but I don't know how could I do this with a font file.
I wouldn't mind purchasing the Font Creator but I don't have time, patience (and knowledge) to scale all the dots in about 40-50 font files. If there would be a batch process, or a "copy out - scale down - copy back" type of action that would help a lot. (I am afraid there is none.)
1.) Yes, there are thousands of dots in each font file so the dot-by-dot scaling would be way too labor intensive.
2.) Yes, I have to scale every single dots to 10% without moving them. In Adobe Illustrator there is a command "Scale each" (?) which does that, but I don't know how could I do this with a font file.
I wouldn't mind purchasing the Font Creator but I don't have time, patience (and knowledge) to scale all the dots in about 40-50 font files. If there would be a batch process, or a "copy out - scale down - copy back" type of action that would help a lot. (I am afraid there is none.)
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Re: Newbie question about font modification
If Adobe Illustrator can do it, then install the font, format a full alphabet with the font in Illustrator, convert to curves, do the scaling, then copy/paste each letter to FontCreator, or export each letter or a group of letters as a PDF file and import those.
If you do the first part for abc ABC, then attach a PDF of the scaled font, I will see how well it imports into FontCreator.
If you do the first part for abc ABC, then attach a PDF of the scaled font, I will see how well it imports into FontCreator.
Re: Newbie question about font modification
Yes, Illustrator can do it. The correct name is "transform each".
I will try your copy/paste suggestion; it looks like a good solution for my problem.
Thank you VERY VERY much.
I will try your copy/paste suggestion; it looks like a good solution for my problem.
Thank you VERY VERY much.
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Re: Newbie question about font modification
No, but this doesvanisaac wrote:Does this constitute a request for the feature "scale each contour independently"?