I have followed the help but can not change the GulimChe.ttf to italic.
need ASAP.
Please help.
Robert
changing a regular font to italic
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changing a regular font to italic
I just tested with a Devanagari font.
First, make sure you have the latest version of Font Creator from the announcements forum.
You will, of course, have to save your new font under a new TTF filename, change some values under Format, Settings to identify it as an italic variant, before using the autonaming feature to rename it.
First, make sure you have the latest version of Font Creator from the announcements forum.
- Open your font. Don't select any glyphs unless you want to leave some glyphs without a slant.
- From the tools menu, select Glyph Transformer
- Remove all transformatons from the right panel
- Add the Skew transformation
- Click OK to skew all the glyphs in the font
You will, of course, have to save your new font under a new TTF filename, change some values under Format, Settings to identify it as an italic variant, before using the autonaming feature to rename it.
You da man
This is some of the best news I have had over this issue.
Thanks a million.
Thanks a million.
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When I make an italic font out of my normal font using the skew option of the glyph-transformer, the "left side bearing" of my glyphs stays with the same. In this case this is not very useful for letters like T where the left-most point of the glyph is far above the baseline. To fix things I have to adjust the x-value (that is the x-value mentioned after "white space before character" in the properites window) to the same value for all glyphs by adjusting the left side bearing value. Since this is a rather boring procedure I only wonder if I missed some option to avoid this problem...
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Glyph Transformer
As well as skew, add the transformation under metrics "Left side-bearing point at x=0"
There are other transformations too, and they are all adjustable.
There are other transformations too, and they are all adjustable.