Export selected glyph names
Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 4:41 am
I would like the ability to export selected glyph names to a text file, or even to the clipboard. If there is a means, I couldn't find it.
Current font has 248 pre-built ligatures comprised of two and three characters. The current method of adding ligatures or other glyph replacements is a slow, click, click, click, click process of the source and replacement dialogs. As well, with ligatures there is also the manual input of any second or, also in this case, third character. It's a mind-numbing task.
Nearly all my fonts have dozens and dozens of alternates, ligatures, etc. It's a tedious task.
Tonight I got a bit tired of it. I opened the font in OTM and exported the glyph names to a text file. Opened it in my text editor and removed the extra information I do not need. Pasted the remainder into a spreadsheet, added the 'sub' and '->' strings in the appropriate columns' first cell, dragged down the selected text to fill the columns.
In the text editor, removed the underscore character I had used for the ligs and replaced with a space. Copied that and pasted into another column between the 'sub' and '->' columns.
Copied the spreadsheet to the text editor, replaced all tabs with a space, replaced the end of line return with a semi-colon and return. Copied and pasted into FC in the OT Designer in a new discretionary lig code section.
All told I spent about 8 to 10 minutes to add 248 ligatures, with time taken to figure out the process. It would have been a little easier with a direct, glyph name only text file export direct from FC. While I don't overly mind the process I went through, direct from FC would have been easier than using OTM.
Mike
Current font has 248 pre-built ligatures comprised of two and three characters. The current method of adding ligatures or other glyph replacements is a slow, click, click, click, click process of the source and replacement dialogs. As well, with ligatures there is also the manual input of any second or, also in this case, third character. It's a mind-numbing task.
Nearly all my fonts have dozens and dozens of alternates, ligatures, etc. It's a tedious task.
Tonight I got a bit tired of it. I opened the font in OTM and exported the glyph names to a text file. Opened it in my text editor and removed the extra information I do not need. Pasted the remainder into a spreadsheet, added the 'sub' and '->' strings in the appropriate columns' first cell, dragged down the selected text to fill the columns.
In the text editor, removed the underscore character I had used for the ligs and replaced with a space. Copied that and pasted into another column between the 'sub' and '->' columns.
Copied the spreadsheet to the text editor, replaced all tabs with a space, replaced the end of line return with a semi-colon and return. Copied and pasted into FC in the OT Designer in a new discretionary lig code section.
All told I spent about 8 to 10 minutes to add 248 ligatures, with time taken to figure out the process. It would have been a little easier with a direct, glyph name only text file export direct from FC. While I don't overly mind the process I went through, direct from FC would have been easier than using OTM.
Mike