Unresizable font

Baltimor · Post by **Baltimor** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:59 pm

Hi all

Sorry for my english (it is very bad)

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I need to create a "not resizable" font with a special fixed height, i try with negative Win Ascent and positive Win Descent but it's not really decisive.

Is it possible, and how ?

Thanks for help.

bye

Erwin Denissen · Post by **Erwin Denissen** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:26 pm

Both TrueType and OpenType are scalable font formats. If you need a fixed sized font, try bitmap (e.g. FON and BDF) fonts.

Baltimor · Post by **Baltimor** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:22 pm

Thanks for your answer

That mean i cant do that with FontCreator, thats right ?

Do you know where i can find that kind of font (to test it) or/and a shareware (or freeware

) to make the font i need (i need only one character), i tryed to google it, but nothing interesting yet

.

thanks.

Erwin Denissen · Post by **Erwin Denissen** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:19 am

Baltimor wrote:That mean i cant do that with FontCreator, thats right ?

That's correct, unless I didn't understand your initial post.

We can't help you with non-scalable fonts, as we never tried them. The best place to ask any questions about that is the newsgroup:
news:comp.fonts
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.fonts

Baltimor · Post by **Baltimor** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:17 am

Ok, thank you,

I will try something else then, can i reduce the scale ?
For exemple in size = '8' my font as 20 px height, in size = '20' it as 22 px, etc...

Maybe it's possible, no ?
What params can help me to do that (if it's possible).

Thanks (and sorry again for my english).

Bhikkhu Pesala · Post by **Bhikkhu Pesala** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:29 am

To make the letters as big as possible, scale them until the top of ascenders is just below WinAscent, and the bottom of descenders is just above WinDescent. To scale the glyphs by a fixed percentage use the Transform toolbar. To scale the whole font, or a range of selected glyphs, use the Transform Wizard on the tools menu.

Baltimor · Post by **Baltimor** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:01 am

Well, i think there is no solution to my problem...

Bye (and thanks for your answers).

Baltimor · Post by **Baltimor** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:09 am

Just to explain Bhikkhu Pesala what i was trying to do.

The "o" is using my special font.

For exemple, if my text size is 7 :
Hello world

If the size is 12 :
Hello world

If the size is 25 :
Hello world

But that don't look to be possible.

Bye.