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1. 6 1 7 Naming On the Tools menu click Options and then click the Naming tab Options General Overview Glyph Edit Naming Validation Advanced Default Naming for New Fonts Copyright Typeface High Logic lt year gt All Rights Reserv LJ LJ Trademark lt font family gt Trademark of High Logic C Font Designer Font Designer Link http www fontcreator com fontdesigner htrml oO License Agreement C License Agr Link Automatic Naming Wizard Version String use Font revision gt Yersion from Font Settings gt Header page Default Naming for New Fonts These fields are used as initial naming fields when a new font is created lt year gt will be replaced by the current year and lt font family gt will be replaced by the actual font family name When the Version String use Font revision is checked the Font revision Version from the Font Settings window is used to format the suggested Version string in the AutoNaming wizard If this field is not checked the current Version string is used O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Customizing Font Creator 127 6 1 8 Validation On the Tools menu click Options and then click the Validation tab Options General Sample Font Overview Glyph Edit Naming validation Advanced Real time glyph validation Disable real time glyph validation when number of points exceeds 400
2. MacChar D4 D5 D2 D3 C9 To sort the glyphs within a font select Sort Glyphs in the Font menu The glyphs will be sorted by these ru les e f available the notdef glyph e f available the null glyph e f available the nonmarkingreturn glyph e The remaining glyphs are sorted by their Macintosh standard order names O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 32 FontCreator Help 4 3 15 4 4 4 4 1 e Then all glyphs are sorted by their Microsoft mappings e Then all remaining glyphs are sorted by their postscript names Incomplete Glyphs Select Edit from the main menu and then click Select Incomplete to select all glyphs that are not completed yet In case you decide to not add outlines to those glyphs you should remove those incomplete glyphs Editing Glyphs Introduction From the Glyph Overview window you can double click a glyph in order to open a Glyph Edit window and edit the selected glyph You can also select a glyph right click it and select Edit Drawing You can zoom in to get a close up view of your glyph or zoom out to see more of the page at a reduced size You can use the edit field located on the Drawing toolbar to change the zoom percentage The Zoom to Selected button will be enabled as soon as contours or points are selected Pressing this button will zoom into the current selection When you press the Fit to Window button the glyph will b
3. 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 59 If there are no ranges defined in a typeface the rasterizer may apply default rules to decide how to render the glyphs on grayscale devices Note Grayscale is invented for screen output and will not be used by printer drivers Grayscale Gasp Ranges Limit Flags 3 Grayscale rendering 17 Gridfitting 65535 Gridfitting and grayscale rendering Range A Upper limit 8 gt C Gridfitting Grayscale rendering At very small sizes the best appearance on grayscale devices can usually be achieved by rendering the glyphs in grayscale without gridfitting At intermediate sizes gridfitting also known as hinting and monochrome rendering will usually produce the best appearance At large sizes the combination of gridfitting and grayscale rendering will typically produce the best appearance To add a new range press the Insert button To remove a range select it and press the Delete button To remove all ranges right click the list view and select Delete All 4 5 6 2 Add Gasp In the Add Gasp window set the Upper limit and optionally check the Gridfitting and Grayscale rendering fields and press the OK button 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 60 FontCreator Help Upper limit 14 Gridfitting C Grayscale rendering See also Grayscale Overview 4 5 7 PCL5 The PCL5 wind
4. ogic t Copyright High Logic Software 1997 2006 All rights reserved FontCreator 5 5 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved FontCreator Manual O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved All rights reserved No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means graphic electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording taping or information storage and retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher FontCreator is a trademark of High Logic Microsoft Windows and OpenType are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Apple the Apple Logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks and TrueType is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc registered in the United States and other countries Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners The Unicode Character Database is provided as is by Unicode Inc While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it In no event sh
5. 4 4 4 3 Points In Point mode the rectangles represent on curve points and the circles off curve points Select points To select a single point click on it To select more than one point hold down the Shift key while clicking on several points or another way is to hold down the left mouse button and drag a rectangle around the points you want to select simultaneously whether a few or all points in the glyph Use the Ctrl A shortcut to select all points Hold down the Shift key and select points you want to add or remove from the current selection Move selected points To constrain a selection so it moves only horizontally or vertically press Shift as you drag the selection Press Alt to ignore the snap to grid and snap to guidelines features There are several operations related to points move add delete change points to on or off curve etc Select one or more points and then right click one of them to open a sub menu with even more point related features i3 COUR TTF Simple Glyph Index 0008 Caption percent SEE 0 250 500 750 1000 1250 1500 pad d d d O E R i A J J 4 J J J 3 J J J 4 J J J J El J J J J 4 J J J J J J J J 4 J J J Every contour has a start point with a green mark and an end point with a red mark To change the start point right click a point and select First Point 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts
6. Light Italic Light Oblique Condensed Condensed Italic Condensed Oblique Bold Condensed Bold Condensed Italic Bold Condensed Oblique Semibold lighter than demibold Semibold Italic Semibold Oblique other treatment flags are assigned over time 4 ono rmT1 YF QO DV 4 5 8 Tables Over the years the TrueType font specification has been updated with new tables FontCreator supports 16 tables four tables are related to hinting and are only partly supported All other tables are not supported Font Tables Supported Unsupported Tag Description 05 2 05 2 and Windows specific metrics PCLT PCL 5 data cmap Character to glyph mapping cyt Control Value Table fpam Font program gasp Grid fitting Scan conwersiom alyf Glyph data head Font header hhea Horizontal header hmtx Horizontal metrics kern Kerning loca Index to location maxp Maximum profile name Naming table post PostScript information prep CVT Program hinting is preserved Remove Hinting When a font file is opened FontCreator loads all tables into memory except for those tables that are excluded by settings from the Options window Unsupported tables are saved back into the font file without modifications 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 66 FontCreator Help The preferred table ordering is defined in the file TableOffsetOrder txt Although this is the recommended orde
7. 62 FontCreator Help Unique Number Is assigned by the vendor Font vendors should attempt to insure that each of their fonts are marked with unique values Style Structure Width and Posture Are assigned by the vendor TypeFamily Vendor code and Typeface family code Are assigned by HP Boise Division SymbolSet Number field and ID field Symbol set values are assigned by HP Boise Division Pitch The width of the space in FUnits FUnits are described by the unitsPerEm field of the head table This value should match the advance width value of the glyph that is mapped to the space character Monospace fonts derive the width of all characters from this field xHeight The height of the optical line describing the height of the lowercase x in FUnits This might not be the same as the measured height of the lowercase x CapHeight The height of the optical line describing the top of the uppercase H in FUnits This might not be the same as the measured height of the uppercase H StrokeWeight This field contains the PCL stroke weight value Type designers often use interesting names for weights or combinations of weights and styles such as Heavy Compact Inserat Bold No 2 etc PCL stroke weights are assigned on the basis of the entire family and use of the faces Typically display faces don t have a text weight assignment WidthType This field contains the PCL appearance width value The values are not d
8. E ao n z Note The Validation features are not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator Testing and Installing Fonts Character Map With Windows Character Map you can insert special characters into documents and the Test window From your Start menu mouse over Programs Accessories and System Tools and then click on Character Map If you don t see the Character Map listed in the System Tools use the instructions below to install the program In the Character Map select the appropriate font Click the letter or symbol you need and click the Select button Add more characters if needed and finally click the Copy button Now go to your document and select Paste from the Edit menu or use the shortcut Ctrl V 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 107 4 9 2 Install Windows Character Map If Windows Character Map is not installed on your system follow these steps e Click your Start menu mouse over Settings and then click the Control Panel e Double click the Add Remove Programs menu e Click the Windows setup tab scroll down the menu and highlight the System Tools e Click the Details button e Place a checkmark next to the Character Map listing e Click OK e Click Apply Note To type special characters like the copyright sign of the font in your word processor or page layout program hold down the Alt key and then by using the numeri
9. 96 FontCreator Help Automatic Kerning Wizard Additional Options White space between characters 380 Minimum absolute kerning value 50 E Allow For positive kerning values A v Replace existing kerning when New value differs morethan w 25 Exclude empty glyphs recommended The White space between glyphs value is the recommended distance between two glyphs The minimum absolute kerning value is used to ignore kerning pair values less than this value Select Allow for positive kerning values if you also accept positive kerning pair values On this page you can also decide when existing kerning pairs should be changed Press the Next button to see a preview of the result 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 97 4 6 3 5 Preview On this page there is a summary of the calculated kerning pairs Automatic Kerning Wizard New number of kerning pairs 3 Total number of kerning pairs 867 AV AW VA Click the Finish button when you accept the new kerning pairs otherwise click the Back or Cancel button Note The Automatic Kerning wizard is not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator 4 6 4 AutoNaming 4 6 4 1 Font Family Name Although it is possible to change the naming fields through the Naming window this AutoNaming wizard automates the manual naming process On the Tools menu click AutoNamin
10. Use the settings on the Glyph tab to position and resize the generated contours When you press the Generate button the conversion will start Tip You can also paste an image from the clipboard or drag and drop an image from explorer into the Glyph Overview and Glyph Edit windows Note You can t import images into composite glyphs TrueType Collection A TrueType Collection file is one or more TrueType fonts combined into one file The Extract TrueType Fonts from TrueType Collection wizard available from the Tools menu can extract those TrueType fonts Extract TrueType Fonts from TrueType Collection Wizard Source file C Downloads Fonts Collection Sims tte Destination folder C iDownloads Fonts Collectiont Destination file prefix Sims_ E Cancel Source file Select the TrueType Collection file O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 102 FontCreator Help 4 6 7 4 7 4 7 1 Destination folder The extracted TrueType font files will be saved in this folder Destination file prefix The extracted files start with this prefix Extract TrueType Fonts from TrueType Collection Wizard TrueType fonts Font Name Filename SimSun 18030 Sims_0 ttf NSimSun 18030 Sims_1 ttF Here you will see all TrueType fonts available in the TrueType Collection Select the fonts you want to extract and press the Finish button External Tools To quickly acc
11. The High byte mapping through table encoding format is useful for the national character code standards used for Japanese Chinese and Korean characters When building a font containing Roman characters that will be used on the Macintosh an additional Macintosh Roman platform is required Macintosh Apple platforms standard encoding format is Byte encoding table however High byte mapping through table Segment mapping to delta values and Trimmed table mapping are also allowed When using the Byte encoding table only the first 256 glyphs will be accessible Note the Trimmed table mapping is not a common encoding format although sometimes used with the Macintosh platforms If available the Unicode platforms should use the Segment mapping to delta values encoding format Note Character codes that do not correspond to any glyph in the font will be mapped to glyph index 0 even when there is no such mapping in the font The glyph at this location must be a special glyph representing a missing character Because some word processors and DTP applications depend on the Macintosh Roman mappings they should be included as well All glyphs will be available for word processing and illustration programs through their mappings Not all glyphs have mappings because some glyphs are only used internally for making the composite glyphs 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 53 Character to Glyp
12. 116 FontCreator Help 5 7 LA LHANDW TTF Simple Glyph Index 0052 Caption o Ea fx units 500 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 do dd 3 rd dd dd 0400404 0444 d 4 E R i A EE A eee 000 E F o Comparison Show text before and after glyph Before f After int Kerning ooor J J J 4 J J J J 4 J J J J 4 J J J J J J J J 4 J J J El J J J J J J J J Note to enter non ASCII characters enable Unicode Support or use lt CODE gt where lt CODE gt is a 4 digit hexadecimal number that indicates the Unicode value To enter a backslash type it twice Samples The Samples toolbar is a powerful way of adding some contours you may frequently want to use in fonts or in glyphs With the Samples toolbar you can drag and drop a sample glyph to a Glyph Edit window Note This will not work on composite glyphs 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Toolbars Ld MegaWaves ttf Simple Glyph Index 19 Caption zero Em fx 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 units land pl ss os a A L Samples OOt J J J J J J 4 J 2 J 1 J J 4 J 2 J o 0 J 0 J J J J J J 2 J 4 J J 4 J J J J J J J J 4 J J 1 OO Ln o 117 You can change the samples by making a special samples font which includes your own samples From the Tools menu you go to Options and go to the Samples page
13. From the Drawing toolbar you can change the way you can modify the glyph In the Glyph Edit window you can change between Contour and Point mode by double clicking inside the edit area select the Mode from the View menu or use the appropriate button on the Drawing toolbar The main difference between Contour mode and Point mode is that in Contour mode all operations are related to the contours while in Point mode you can change parts of the contours e g move add and delete points Holding down the Shift key while dragging points or contours restricts movement so the selection moves only in the x or y direction In the Glyph Edit window in Point mode the rectangles represent on curve points and the circles off curve points Tip You can nudge the selected contour s or point s up down left or right by pressing the arrow keys By holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the arrow keys finer nudging is available 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 36 FontCreator Help 4 4 4 2 Contours You can perform several operations on contours while in Contour mode Select contours To select more than one contour hold down the Shift key while selecting contours Another way is to click on the workspace where no contours are and while holding down the left mouse button drag a rectangle around all contours you want to select simultaneously Use the Ctrl A shortcut to select all contours Res
14. Here you can select the font filename to be used in the Samples toolbar O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Customizing Font Creator 119 6 Customizing Font Creator 6 1 Options 6 1 1 General You can customize the way fonts are loaded saved and shown with the Options window Select Options from the Tools menu Options Naming Validation Advanced General Sample Font Overview Glyph Edit Unicode Support Enable Unicode support for text display and user input Due to system limitations this Feature is not available For Windows 95 98 ME Information and Reminders On start show Welcome dialog Show update reminder Once a year Values O Decimal 2 Hexadecimal Use the fields on the General page when you want to change the Unicode support welcome dialog update reminder and number format Unicode support is only available for Windows NT 2000 XP and more recent versions of Windows Windows Vista The number format values can be Decimal or Hexadecimal O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 120 FontCreator Help 6 1 2 Sample On the Tools menu click Options and then click the Sample tab Options Namin Validation Advanced General Sample Font Overview Glyph Edit Samples Toolbar Glyph width 62 ES Glyph height s5 Filename Here you can adjust the Glyph cell width and Glyph cell
15. Use the Previous and Next buttons to walk through the members The Flags consist of a set of fields Use this glyphs metrics If set this forces the advance width and left side bearing and right side bearing for the composite to be equal to those from this original glyph This works for hinted and unhinted characters Only one member can have this option selected Without this flag the actual left side bearing and right side bearing of the composite glyph will be used Round xy to grid Round the x and y offsets No overlap This bit is reserved obsolete Do not set it O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 43 Overlap compound Used by Apple in GX fonts Scaled component offset Composite designed to have the component offset scaled designed for Apple rasterizer Unscaled component offset Composite designed not to have the component offset scaled designed for the Microsoft TrueType rasterizer Note that the behavior of the Use this glyphs metrics operation is undefined for rotated composite components 4 4 5 4 Complete Composites Use the Complete Composites feature to add composite glyph members to your glyphs To use this powerful feature select a glyph or a range of glyphs right click and select Complete Composites The selected glyphs will be composed using data in CompositeData xml which is read when FontCreator first uses the feature This feature works
16. 2 Serif Style 0 Any lt 3 Weight O Any A 4 Proportion 0 Any JL 5 Contrast 0 Any 6 Stroke Yariation 0 Any 7 Arm Style 0 Any 8 Letterform 0 Any 9 Midline 0 Any 10 X height 0 Any Font family Class Subclass No Classification v No Classification PANOSE These fields are used to describe the visual characteristics of a given typeface These characteristics are then used to associate the font with other fonts of similar appearance having different names The PANOSE evaluation document details the specifications for assigning PANOSE numbers http www panose com 1 Font family These fields are a classification of the font family design The font class and font subclass are registered values assigned by IBM to each font family These fields are intended for use in selecting an alternate font when the requested font is not available The font class is the most general and the font subclass is the most specific More information about this field is available online http www microsoft com typography otspec ibmtc htm 7 4 5 9 4 Metrics This page consists of a set of spacing fields and font design flags On the Format menu click Settings and then click the Metrics tab O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 76 FontCreator Help Font Settings Header General
17. 2 BK 0 250 500 750 1000 1250 units 1d 1d att 4944 94 a 4 4444 E E E E 555445435 15445 i A OO ln 000 o H J J J J J J al J l J J J 4 J J J J J J J J J l J There are several ways to add outlines contours to a glyph e Select the Add rectangle or Add ellipse button on the Drawing toolbar and place it on the Glyph Edit window e Draw a new contour First select Contour from the Insert menu A left mouse click creates a point on the contour and a right mouse click creates a point off the contour for a b zier curve Creating points while holding down the Ctrl key generates straight lines horizontal or vertical After you have created your contour you press the Apply button e Samples toolbar Drag and drop a glyph from the Samples toolbar into a Glyph Edit window e Copy contours from other glyphs even from other fonts and paste them These operations carried out in their respective Glyph Overview windows e Import a stored bitmap file of an image of a glyph into a Glyph Edit window using Import in the Tools menu e Paste a Clipboard image of a glyph into the Glyph Edit window The Clipboard image could be created in another application which has graphics editing capabilities e g a cropping function This operation is performed using the Paste option in the Edit menu O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 38 FontCreator Help
18. Fonts 79 Mac Style If the font is bold set the Bold flag If the font is Italic set the Italic flag If the font is both bold and italic set both Bold and Italic flags Set other flags as required Note that Mac Style fields should agree with the Font Design fields These Font Design fields are used over the Mac Style fields The PANOSE values in the Classification tab and post settings in the post tab are ignored for determining bold or italic fonts 4 5 9 5 Ranges 4 5 9 5 1 Overview The Ranges page on the Font Settings window has several fields related to character ranges and additional metrics On the Format menu click Settings and then click the Ranges tab Font Settings Header General Classification Metrics Ranges Post Contents and Layout Version Version 3 Average weighted escapement Average Character Width 1137 Calculate Unicode Character Ranges JODE X X Calculate XX XXXXX XXXX X XX Calculate Additional Metrics Height 916 Default Char Max Context 0 Cap Height 1356 Break Char 32 A Vv A k 1 H Cancel Version After version 0 some additional fields where included and updated 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 80 FontCreator Help Version 1 includes the Code Page Character Range Version 2 updated Unicode Character Ranges and includes the Additional Metrics fields Version
19. dialog box Note The Undo button on the toolbar has a small arrow which allows you to pull down a menu and select multiple actions to be undone Redo Command The Redo command from the Edit menu re applies the actions or commands on which you have used the Undo command FontCreator supports Multiple Redo which is particularly useful if you have removed more edits and commands than you had intended If this occurs and you want to re apply them either choose the Redo command as many times as is 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 19 necessary or use the drop arrow on the Redo button located on the Standard toolbar Note The Redo button on the toolbar has a small arrow which allows you to pull down a menu and select multiple actions to be redone 4 2 3 Repeat Your Last Action When you select Repeat from the Edit menu the program will repeat the last action you have done When the Repeat command can t be selected you can t repeat the last action 4 2 4 Finding a Glyph You can search for a glyph by its postscript name and by its mappings Select Find on the Edit menu to open the Find window Postscript Name Mapping Index Part of Postscript Name Euro Find Next C Find whole words only If you search for a specific part of a postscript name enter the text in the Part of Postscript Name box Find Next leads you to the Glyph s that contain the entered pa
20. docked below the menu bar Choose Toolbars from the View menu to select toolbars to display or hide or right click on any toolbar to get the same submenu Tip Toolbars can be rearranged by dragging docked on the left of FontCreator window or made floating To quickly hide a floating toolbar click the Close button on that toolbar Transform The Transform toolbar contains powerful tools for editing simple glyphs Contours can be precisely repositioned resized moved skewed scaled rotated or mirrored Nodes can be repositioned or moved by precise increments The glyph s bearings can also be set Transform Mirror Size Skew Bearings Position Movement Rotation Scale x position 996 2 Y position 1780 s On curve Apply O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 112 FontCreator Help 5 3 Validation Use the Validation toolbar to locate and solve common glyph problems It can only be activated F7 or Show glyph validation report button while editing a glyph in the Glyph Edit window Yalidation real time acro e Simple glyph index 0005 G F o Off curve extreme coordinates oF 328 0 913 0 ef 486 0 1573 0 E Q Intersecting coordinates A 314 0 1533 0 A 322 8 1267 8 E Contours with incorrect direction Ey Unable to perform this test due to previously detected errors Note Because the validation can be very time consuming real time glyph problem d
21. e g glyphs contours and coordinates It validates all glyphs and optionally fixes detected problems 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 104 FontCreator Help Font Validation Wizard Specify which tests you want to perform and whether detected problems should be fixed during the validation process Validation Tests Duplicate components Empty components Duplicate contours C Contours with one or two points C Off curve extreme coordinates C Redundant points C Duplicate knots C Intersecting coordinates Contours with incorrect direction Fix detected problems In order to fix these problems open the specific glyph in a Glyph Edit window and manually adjust the specific outlines Avoid crossing contours whenever possible 4 glyph s specific hinting data will be removed if a detected problem is fixed during the validation process The specific validation test are explained here Duplicate components This problem will be reported when validating composite glyphs with two or more identical glyph members Empty components This problem will be reported when validating composite glyphs with empty glyph members Duplicate contours This problem will be reported when validating simple glyphs with two or more identical contours Contours with one or two points This problem will be reported when validating simple glyphs with contours with one or two point
22. fields Font Family name and Font Subfamily name Preferred Subfamily Windows only In Windows the Family name is displayed in the font menu the Subfamily name is presented as the Style name For historical reasons font families have contained a maximum of four styles but font designers may group more than four fonts to a single family The Preferred Family and Preferred Subfamily fields allow font designers to include the preferred family subfamily groupings These fields are only present if they are different from fields Font Family name and Font Subfamily name Sample Text This can be the font name or any other text that the designer thinks is the best sample to display the font in PostScript CID Findfont Name Its presence in a font means that the Postscript name field in the Naming window holds a PostScript font name that is meant to be used with the composefont invocation in order to invoke the font in a PostScript interpreter This field must be restricted to the printable ASCII subset codes 33 through 126 except for the 10 characters T 195 5 J lt gt 7 Edit Naming Field Some Naming fields can be modified within the Edit Naming Field window accessed by pressing the button O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 51 Edit Naming Field Description MegaWaves is created with FontCreator From High Logic com The Load and Save button can be u
23. hand panel you see the glyphs which are present in your font The right hand panel will contain the glyphs which you select for modification of bearings O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 91 4 6 2 2 Automatic Metrics Wizard Select glyphs you want to generate metrics for Available 1328 Selected 346 A Use the buttons located between the two panels of glyphs to move glyphs e The top button will transfer all glyphs from the left hand panel to the right hand panel This is useful if many glyphs need modification The unwanted can be selected and returned to the left panel e The second button transfers only selected glyphs from the left panel to the right panel for modification e The third button returns only selected glyphs from the right panel to the left panel These glyph bearings perhaps require no modification e The bottom button will transfer all glyphs from the right panel to the left panel The Next button takes you to the next page where modifications to bearings can be made Metrics In this window set the values for white space before and after the selected glyphs or use the fixed option to enter the exact left side bearing and advance width for the selected glyphs O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 92 FontCreator Help 4 6 3 4 6 3 1 Automatic Metrics Wizard Calculated Wh
24. o u gt cocteus suds sitesteceicsnetect ncutathdessceersieseetestactens 66 A O 66 Overview i mo 66 Font Header Flags inisi siiri aida iaa 68 cc NR 70 OVEIVIGW paga E E E EE A a E AE 70 Font Embeddino Licensing Rightsiin i 73 Classification 74 MOTOS ira it ENEA aa eiA AE AAA Aca 75 RANGES iii o abia aca 79 OVOIVIEWO iia ia 79 Unicode Character Rango cities 82 Code Page Character Range cionado 83 O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Contents Hil 6 Part V N Oo 0 Ff OD a Part VI Post sasa Font Properties A dc a aesan ar rnane rae aea Eea Ea EAA aaa A EAE ASAA PEA sage oussuevsussueseadscuesueracugcugancatierousearse 89 AutoMetriCS 20 ena aiads 90 Glyph Seleccion irc as 90 Metrics 91 AutoKern 92 Setup 92 Import 93 Glyph Selecto ignara a a SE A S E 94 A OO E T 95 aE T dodo ito E ic as 97 AN A a 97 Font Family NaMe vicnirancionic no ii pd ia 97 Suggested Name Fields ae eS 98 Import IMAGE 6 05c ccscseiaiessndsadstcececaoaseacessusncedsuenausavcaiceosssedesseanesudsnsadsedoaiacsupesnasuaubusdoarsabestsandesdsdsadsidssancberdeocsndepidons 99 TrueType Collection oaiae a aonaran raana rE aean EA aaee eao aAa aeaa EAEn SARE aiaa aenant LISE ESES 101 A NN 102 o nn nn ee AAPP Print Glyph Font Validation SOUP A seedenasuceenscebesavhvicsccvacupedeuieaesctasmenepeeesceed Resulls A a Testing and Installing Fonts oonon
25. rights reserved Index 135 Index A Advance Width 21 91 Advanced 128 Appearance 58 Ascent 75 AutoKern 92 94 Preview 97 AutoMetrics 90 AutoNaming 97 B Background Image 114 Backup 121 Bearings 33 Bitmap to Outline 99 Bookmark 20 C Caption 20 122 Character 25 54 Character Encoding 51 Character Map 106 Character Ranges 79 Character Spacing 55 Characters 23 Insert 23 CharMap 102 Classification 74 Close Font 18 Code Page Character Ranges 83 Commands 111 Comparison 115 Complete Composites 43 Composite Glyph 39 Composites 43 Compress 121 Contour 32 34 36 Direction 34 Insert 8 Mode 34 Convert 99 Composite Glyph 39 Copy Glyph 24 Copyright 13 Create Font 17 Curve 34 Customize 119 D Decimal 119 Descent 75 Direction 8 112 Duplicate 112 a Ellipsis 28 Embedding 27 73 Empty Glyph 34 Encoding 51 Euro Sign 25 Exclusion 39 External Tools 102 Extreme 112 e Features 2 File Name 16 26 Find 19 Flags 68 Font Embedding 73 Family 45 Name 45 97 Properties 87 Table 65 Version 45 Font Designer 49 Font Header Flags 68 FontName 26 Font Type 26 Font Vendor 49 70 FontCreator buying 4 getting help 3 O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 136 FontCreator Help FontCreator manual 3 Fonts folder 102 G Gasp 58 Generated Naming Fields 98 Glyph Composite 32 Empty 32 Insert 24 Mapping 54 Proper
26. set of entries in some small set of languages Note The easiest way to give your font a name is to use the AutoNaming wizard available from the Tools menu For the Microsoft Unicode or Symbol Platform these naming entries for English United States should be available e Font Family Name e Font Subfamily Name e Unique Font Identifier e Full Font Name e Version String e Postscript Name All these fields should be present Window 95 etc don t care about these fields but Windows NT Windows 2000 and Windows XP really expect these fields without these fields installation will fail 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 46 FontCreator Help For historical reasons some applications which install or use fonts perform version control using values in the Macintosh platform Because of this it is recommended that Macintosh platform exists in all fonts and that the syntax of the Version string follows the guidelines given below When building a font containing Roman characters that will be used on the Macintosh additional naming entries for the English language for the Macintosh Roman platform are required Note that while both Apple and Microsoft support the same set of name strings the interpretations may be somewhat different But since name strings are stored by platform encoding and language placing separate strings in for both Apple and MS platforms this should not present a proble
27. size Smallest readable size in pixels Most fonts have this value set to 9 Created The date and time the font was created press the Now button to set these fields to the current date and time Modified The date and time the font was last modified press the Now button to set these fields to the current date and time 4 5 9 1 2 Font Header Flags The Font Header Flags give global information about the font Font Header Flags v Baseline for font at y 0 v Left side bearing at x 0 Instructions may depend on point size v Force ppem to integer values For all internal scaler math Instructions may alter advance width Apple specific field 5 Reserved Apple specific Field 7 Apple specific field 8 Apple specific Field 9 Apple specific field 10 Font data is lossless Font converted Font optimised for ClearType Reserved Reserved J Baseline for font at y 0 Set this field when the baseline for all glyphs is at y 0 that is the x axis Left sidebearing point at x 0 Set this field when the x position of the leftmost black bit is assumed to be the left side bearing 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 69 Instructions may depend on point size Set this flag when there are instructions that depend on point size Instructions may use point size explicitly in place of pixels per em This means that scaling a 12 point screen font to obtain the equivale
28. this field should be set to 3 This field could be useful to sophisticated line breaking engines in determining how far they should look ahead to test whether something could change that effects the line breaking For chaining contextual lookups the length of the string covered glyph input sequence lookahead sequence should be considered DefaultChar Whenever a request is made for a character that is not in the font Windows provides this default character If the value of this field is zero glyph ID O is to be used for the default character otherwise this is the Unicode encoding of the glyph that Windows uses as the default character BreakChar This is the Unicode encoding of the glyph that Windows uses as the break character The break character is used to separate words and justify text Most fonts specify that space is the break character 4 5 9 5 2 Unicode Character Range This field is used to specify the Unicode blocks or ranges encompassed by the font file in the mappings for the Microsoft platform If a Unicode range is selected it is considered functional The determination of functional is left up to the font designer although character set selection should attempt to be functional by ranges if at all possible 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 83 Unicode Range Settings Y Latin 1 Supplement Latin Extended 4 v Latin Extended B Y IPA Exte
29. this is not the same as the Line Gap value which Apple defines in a far different manner The suggested usage for Typo Line Gap is that it be used in conjunction with unitsPerEm to compute a typographically correct default line spacing Typical values average 7 10 of units per em Win Ascent The ascender metric for Windows This too is distinct from Apple s Ascender value and from the Typo Ascender value Win Ascent is computed as the yMax for all characters in the Windows ANSI character set Win Ascent is used to compute the Windows font height and default line spacing For Symbol fonts it is the same as yMax Win Descent The descender metric for Windows This too is distinct from Apple s Descender value and from the Typo Descender value Win Descent is computed as the yMin for all characters in the Windows ANSI character set Win Descent is used to compute the Windows font height and default line spacing For Symbol fonts it is the same as yMin 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 78 FontCreator Help Ascender Macintosh specific Typographic ascent Descender Macintosh specific Typographic descent Line Gap Macintosh specific Typographic line gap Negative Line Gap values are treated as zero in Windows 3 1 Tip To automatically calculate ascender and descender values press the Calculate button Font Design Contains information concerning the nature of the font patter
30. wa 34 Simple GUY PMS iii ii inaitads 34 Vit o reio nE O EA 34 Cd E E EAE E EA 36 e O a aaae eaii 38 Join and Split Contours we 39 Composite Gly PAS tececst wets cde Eada aaa Aaaa a ceatvaccsaveaudsscusaessdessoensteduacunesnessteisdayecuctesenernenaepaarees 39 IntroducliOn ociosa aria laico 39 EN A A O EN 41 Glyph Member Properties cio ii dr ba A aos 42 Gomplete COMPOSE 20 iicedaltetr siii oa ini tunes iasditecnashecsustiuieddlacedscaetiaceacatesantacaseaebedseune Dos 43 5 Format semaine aaae Aaea E aeaea s0eanueuancee cca steduaacnaccnadessseieddendeetnuretsianduvesueedeen 44 Platform Manager aeaa A E E E A E E E 44 DE aE E E E A E E A E E E E ddr E R 44 Add PIA OMIM 253 sai 44 NAMING laa 45 OVOVI Wide eis 45 Add Language and Locale vw 48 Advanced Naci a eens 49 Edit NAMING FICO ais coi ii cisd set tgeagses cated chads id il ara secede 50 ETa olat K A E E AE A EE E 51 Character t Glyph Index MappingS vivir intra 51 Add Character to Glyph Index Mapping so 54 Glyph Already Mapped icoo iresi lcd alle cali de 55 A lt P enced ESAS 55 OVNI Wissrasn rta tense ccodsvagudeveive tana ega ASTEA Aae OEE EEEE SEIERE 55 New Kerning Pai 57 POST E E E A aces chucetsacsseceevetsxsensescecenscnedcotuubecsucescocevszetvinseksuesascossusersteevcueiseussasssesascesdstessecsbeasessne 57 e EAV or e dias 58 0E aTe A E A AE E E E EE E A E E E E E AE R 58 Add Gasp uo 59 PPG nn O 60 Tables ini ii rocio 65 Settings A P
31. 0 Between grid points in pixels 40 Line style Color Solid Dots m Show reference lines at x 0 y 0 Line style Color Solid Dots Here you can change the minimum distance color and style The Snap to Grid function automatically places selected glyphs contours and points along the grid When you release a selection FontCreator moves it until the edges are aligned with the nearest grid lines You must choose the Show Grid command before you can use the Snap to Grid function To activate the Snap to Grid function click the Snap to Grid button on the toolbar or choose Snap to Grid from the View menu When the Snap to Grid function is active its button on the menu and toolbar appears pressed in Choose the command or click the button again to turn off the function 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 130 FontCreator Help 6 3 Guidelines 6 3 1 Options To open the Guidelines Options window click Guidelines Options on the Tools menu The Guidelines Options window is also activated when you double click the rulers in the Glyph Edit window Guidelines Options Show Guidelines Line style Snap _ Lock Solid Dots Horizontal 1444 Horizontal Y 406 Horizontal 1194 Vertical X 575 Vertical x 1713 Diagonal point 1825 219 angle 157 870 Diagonal point 1825 744 angle 195 524 Here you can show and hide the guide
32. 1 For version 3 The Average Character Width parameter specifies the arithmetic average of the escapement width of all non zero width glyphs in the font Use the Calculate button to calculate the Average weighted escapement based on the current metrics Note it is not necessary to modify this field when Recalc average char width is selected on the Font tab in the Options window available through the Tools menu Unicode Character Ranges This field is used to specify the Unicode blocks or ranges encompassed by the font file in the mappings for the Microsoft platform The Ranges depend on the selected Content and Layout version Press the Edit button to modify this field through the Unicode Character Range window or press the Calculate button the generate the value Code Page Character Ranges This field is used to specify the code pages encompassed by the font file in the mappings for the Microsoft platform Press the Edit button to modify this field through the Code Page Character Range window or press the Calculate button the generate the value Additional Metrics Height This metric specifies the distance between the baseline and the approximate height of non ascending lowercase letters measured in FUnits This value would normally be specified by a type designer but in situations where that is not possible for example when a legacy font is being converted the value may be set equal to the top of the unscaled and u
33. 22 2006 Greek Greece Hungarian Hungary Italian Standard Italy MegaWaves Norwegian Norway Bokm l Polish Poland Include trademark Portuguese Brazilian Brazil MegaWaves Trademark of High Logic Portuguese Standard Portugal 2 oo LJ Include postscript name Copyright notice The copyright string from the font vendor Font Family name The name the user sees Maximum length is 31 characters Font Subfamily name The name of the style For purposes of definition this is assumed to address style italic oblique and weight light bold black etc only A font with no particular differences in weight or style e g medium weight not italic and the Regular Font Design field on the Windows page in the Settings window checked should have the string Regular stored in this position Unique font identifier A unique identifier that applications can store to identify the font being used Full font name 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 48 FontCreator Help 4 5 2 2 This should be a combination of fields Font Family name and Font Subfamily name Exception if the font is Regular as indicated in field Font Subfamily name then use only the family name contained in field Font Family name This is the font name that Windows will expose to users Version string Must begin with the syntax Version n nn up
34. 3 updated Unicode Character Ranges Average Character Width This field currently has two different descriptions that depend on the Version field For version 0 1 and 2 The Average Character Width parameter specifies the arithmetic average of the escapement width of all of the 26 lowercase letters a through z of the Latin alphabet and the space character If any of the 26 lowercase letters are not present this parameter should equal the weighted average of all glyphs in the font For Symbol fonts use the unweighted average Comments This parameter is a descriptive attribute of the font that specifies the spacing of characters for comparing one font to another for selection or substitution For proportionally spaced fonts this value is useful in estimating the length for lines of text The weighting factors provided with this example are only valid for Latin lowercase letters If other character sets or capital letters are used different frequency of use values should be used One needs to be careful when comparing fonts that use different frequency of use values for font mapping The average character width is calculated according to this formula For the lowercase letters only sum the individual character widths multiplied by the following weighting factors and then divide by 1000 For example Letter Weight Factor NN 50005337 XX TI5O O0O 00500N o O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 8
35. 39 4 4 4 4 Join and Split Contours 4 4 5 4 4 5 1 Both Contour mode and Point mode have ways to combine and split contours Usually Union Intersection and Exclusion available in Contour mode and Knife available in both modes are recommended If these features don t give expected results the two remaining features Join Contours and Split Contour available in Points mode might help Union Intersection and Exclusion in Contour mode Use the Union feature to merge several overlapping contours Use the Intersection feature to keep all overlapping parts Use the Exclusion feature to remove all overlapping parts Knife in both modes Use the Knife feature to split contours Join Contours and Split Contour in Point mode When you want to combine two contours you have to select one point on each contour Next right click one of these points and click Join Contours on the shortcut menu To split a contour into two contours select two points these points should not be neighbours on the same contour and then right click one of these points and click Split Contour on the shortcut menu Note Make sure the two combining contours have the same direction Note Union Intersection Exclusion and Knife are not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator Composite Glyphs Introduction Composite glyphs are simply a combination of two or more other glyphs usually but not limited to a base character and one or more
36. 6 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 109 Note In order to install a modified font the font file must be saved to file Note lt is not recommended to save font files directly into Windows Fonts folder Font Installation Wizard This wizard will install the Font on your computer After installation you will be able to use the Font Install the font in Windows Fonts Folder MegaWaves will be located at c windows Fonts megawaves ttf Click Next to continue or click Cancel to exit Note If you are reinstalling the font it is recommended you delete the font BEFORE installing the new version Note Don t just drop the font into Windows Fonts folder 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Toolbars 111 5 1 5 2 Toolbars Overview The toolbars give you one click access to many of the commands on the menus Some menu items have toolbar icons next to them so that you can quickly associate the command with that icon LA FontCreator 5 5 Professional Edition MegaWaves ttf Simple Glyph Index 0025 Caption B AR Ey File Edit View Insert Format Font Tools Window Help US8eHG 0 8 H4 amp 5a y Way i A 13 35 Sa a ad m0 GO 313 HLA BHD H ER TEE IIA 2 2 al a S r gt ur ar gus FontCreator s toolbars can be shown or hidden as needed By default the Standard Drawing Grid Glyph and Validation toolbars are
37. 9 Subscript 70 Support 2 Symbol 27 51 83 eT Table 65 Ordering 65 Template 17 Test 10 Test Fonts 108 Toolbars 111 Transform 89 111 TrueType 13 TrueType Collection 101 TTC 101 U Underline 85 Undo 18 Unicode 27 51 Unicode Character Ranges 82 Union 39 Units PerEm 66 Used Glyph 22 Validation 103 112 127 Results 106 Version 66 W Warn 128 Warning Points 112 Wizard AutoKern 94 AutoMetrics 90 Naming 97 a Zoom 32 124 O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved
38. Classification Metrics Ranges Post Spacing Typo Ascender 1491 Ascender Typo Descender 431 Descender Typo Line Gap 307 49 14914 EEES Line Gap Calculate Default Calculate O Maximum Win Ascent 1854 Win Descent 434 gt Font Design Regular C Italic C Outlined C Negative C Bold C Underscore C Strikeout Mac Style C Italic C Outline C Condensed C Bold C Underline C Shadow C Extended TypoAscender The typographic ascender for this font Remember that this is not the same as the Ascender value in the Header tab which Apple defines in a far different manner The suggested usage for TypoAscender is that it be used in conjunction with unitsPerEm to compute a typographically correct default line spacing The goal is to free applications from Macintosh or Windows specific metrics which are constrained by backward compatibility requirements These new metrics when combined with the character design widths will allow applications to lay out documents in a typographically correct and portable fashion For CJK Chinese Japanese and Korean fonts that are intended to be used for vertical writing in addition to horizontal writing the required value for TypoAscender is that which describes the top of the design space aka em square For example if the design space of the font extends from coordinates 0 120 to 1000 880 that is a 1000x1000 box set 120 design units below the Latin baseline the
39. Creator Help 1 1 1 2 Getting Started Welcome to FontCreator 5 5 Introduction FontCreator puts font creation within the grasp of the average PC user typographers and graphic designers The editor lets you easily select and modify the entire character set of any TrueType font and fonts based on OpenType font technology Features include the ability to convert images to outlines thus enabling you to create fonts with your own signature logo and handwriting The intuitive interface makes FontCreator the perfect tool for both new and experienced users The advanced validation features make the design process easy and help you avoid common mistakes Key features View and edit TrueType and OpenType fonts Create new characters glyphs or create new fonts Modify individual glyph contours Add or correct composite glyphs Add kerning of glyph pairs Edit and correct font names and mappings Correct fonts that display incorrectly Transform individual glyphs or an entire font e g to make a bold version Preview fonts before installing Install fonts in Windows Unlimited undo redo and repeat options Convert images to glyphs Scan your signature logo or handwriting Drag and drop glyphs from the sample template into your own font Split TrueType Collection or Extract TrueType Fonts from TrueType Collection Make sure you have the latest version of FontCreator http www high logic com amp What s New in F
40. Disable real time glyph validation when number of contours exceeds 40 Disable real time glyph validation when number of members exceeds 20 Off curve extreme coordinates Diagonal redundant points detection Global detection C Max on curve dist O Local detection C Max off curve dist The Real time glyph validation settings are used to determine wether the real time glyph problem detection should be disabled as it would be too time consuming These settings are only used by the real time glyph problem detection When disabled use the Show glyph problem report to open the Glyph Problem Report window Off curve extreme coordinates detection can be performed global or local Note The Validation features are not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator See also Font Validation 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 128 FontCreator Help 6 1 9 Advanced On the Tools menu click Options and then click the Advanced tab Options General Sample Font Overview Glyph Edit Naming Validation Advanced Settings v Warn before sorting glyphs Warn before activating the fix Feature in the Font Validation Wizard Warn before activating a remove feature from the Options gt Font page v Warn before executing Glyph Transformer script Warn before adding characters vi Warn when opening 10 or more Fonts Warn before sorting glyphs This indicates and determines if a warni
41. Next button takes you to the next page 4 6 3 3 Glyph Selection This step is used to manually select glyphs used by the next steps in this wizard In the left hand panel you see the glyphs which are present in your font The right hand panel will contain the glyphs which you select for modification of the kerning pairs 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 95 Automatic Kerning Wizard Select glyphs you want to generate kerning for Available 1669 Selected 5 A v Use the buttons located between the two panels of glyphs to move glyphs e The top button will transfer all glyphs from the left hand panel to the right hand panel This is useful if many glyphs need modification The unwanted can be selected and returned to the left panel e The second button transfers only selected glyphs from the left panel to the right panel for modification e The third button returns only selected glyphs from the right panel to the left panel These glyph bearings perhaps require no modification e The bottom button will transfer all glyphs from the right panel to the left panel The Next button takes you to the next page where changes to the automatic kerning settings can be made 4 6 3 4 Kern In this step enter the values for white space between glyphs and the minimum absolute kerning value 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved
42. ach character in a font of normal width has a relative aspect ratio of one When a new type style is created of a different width class either by a font designer or by some automated means the relative aspect ratio of the characters in the new font is some percentage greater or less than those same characters in the normal font it is this difference that this parameter specifies Font Embedding Licensing Rights Indicates font embedding licensing rights for the font Press the Edit button to modify this field through the Font Embedding Licensing Rights window Caret Slope Rise Used to calculate the slope of the cursor rise run 1 for vertical Caret Slope Run O for vertical Caret Offset The amount by which a slanted highlight on a glyph needs to be shifted to produce the best appearance Set to 0 for non slanted fonts Caret Slope Rise and Caret Slope Run are typographical values and should match with Italic Angle in the Post tab To accomplish this press the Calculate Rise and Run button The rise and run are common algebraic values used to calculate the angles of a right triangle This value is used by Windows to slant the cursor caret to the italic angle of the font These values can be calculated from the italicAngle entry in the post table or by measuring the font In an upright font the caretSlopeRise is usually set to 1 and the caretSlopeRun is always 0 In italic fonts these values can be programmatically or manuall
43. adds a special header to the file To restore to the backup file open it in FontCreator and save it back with the ttf extension Optimize name table This will optimize the storage of naming fields in the name table 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 122 FontCreator Help Compress hmtx table This will compress the hmtx table Exclude monospaced fonts According to Microsoft avoid using compressed format for monospaced fonts at this juncture Recalc glyph bounding boxes This feature will recalculate the bounding box for all glyphs Simply opening and saving a font will ensure correct bounding boxes for all glyphs Normally this feature will not affect fonts Update Modified DateTime field Sets the Modified DateTime field located on the Header page Settings window to the current date and time Recalc average char width This feature will recalculate the Average Char Width located on the General page Settings window Long aligned local offsets It is recommended to save local offsets long aligned Offsets which are not long aligned may seriously degrade performance of some processors Set left side bearing point at x 0 This option moves glyphs so the left side bearing point is set at x 0 This prevents potential display problems Overview On the Tools menu click Options and then click the Overview tab Here you can adjust the Glyph cell width and Glyph cell h
44. airs A Left MEN Index 0024 A Right ME Index 0039 v AT 11 182 E x Ay y esr e On the left side you can select a kerning pair from the list of already assigned kerning pairs To change the kerning value use the scrollbar or change the value in the edit field Using the scrollbar slider handle moves along in units of 192 Clicking on the scrollbar between slider handle and end arrows moves along in units of 10 Clicking on the end arrows moves along in units of 1 Use the Save as Text button to save the kerning pair information To delete all kerning pairs at once right click on the list view and select Delete all or press 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 57 the Clear button Press the New button to add new kerning pairs Click the Delete button to remove the selected kerning pair Note The length field in kerning subtables is saved as an USHORT 16 bit unsigned integer This value includes the six byte header and the eight byte binary search information so the maximum number of kerning pairs is 256 256 6 8 div 6 10920 4 5 4 2 New Kerning Pair In the New Kerning Pair window select both left and right glyphs and press the OK button Now you can alter the kerning value for this new pair in the Kerning window New Kerning Pair See also Kerning Overview 4 5 5 Post In the Postscript Names window select Po
45. all the publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document May 2006 Contents l Table of Contents Part 1 2 3 4 Part Il 1 2 3 4 Part Ill 1 2 3 Part IV 1 Getting Started Welcome to FontCreator 5 5 iii ii id 2 What s New in FontCreator 5 5 iio ii 2 Technical SUPpOft s sisien eaat nean ce aces ead eats aa eat een te akaa aneda cca 3 GEA AAA nn 4 Quick Start Tutorial Your First Font a Brief Tutorial ccccccecceseeeeeeeceeeeeeeeeeneseaeeeeeeseeeeaseenenaeeeseeeeeesnneseaneeseeeeeeens 6 Edit a Glyph Character oo conionnoinnninccninnanosiccrsnn andanada enana indian dai na dana dami e 8 Edita Glyph Character B iiiaio pr letales 9 Test and Install the Font oooonnnnnnnnnncconcnnnnnnnnnancccccno ronca 10 About Fonts TrueType issrsanennn eee alate elias ha eee eed eee Ri ea 13 OpenType A accede dd 13 Font COPY TNMs o 13 Editing Fonts Opening Creating and Saving Fonts ccccsccssseesseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeesssaeseseeeeneeeeeseeseseeeeeeeeees 16 A AA cae a A An KAA Ea A EAA Per Ee Kea Taaa ALTAAN AAAA saae 16 Create ar Font inn is 17 nn o 18 Close a FOM A seeesce siete esccencesscasbeiscapatesecegcaddeasace shes ver Rs Raisas eS te Taani aaa aia 18 o APS A 18 UNO GoOMmmMa nn is 18 Redo Command esccsscsseeseerseeseeeseees
46. and right bearings can be changed by dragging them to their desired position You could also adjust the bearings when you right click a glyph in the Glyph Overview window and select Properties Here you can alter the left side bearing and the advance width 4 Test the font Select Test in the Font menu Add a Euro sign in the text area with Alt 0128 or use Windows Character Map utility to copy and paste the EURO character into the text area Font Name Be careful not to confuse the font name with the file name Windows uses the file name to install a font while the font name is used to identify the font To change the font name select AutoNaming from the Tools menu Font Type To change the font type for example from Regular to Bold you need to change a few settings Things that need to be done in order to change an existing regular font to italic bold or bold italic are e Mac Style fields on the Format menu click Settings and then click the Metrics tab e Font Design on the Format menu click Settings and then click on the Metrics tab e All font subfamily name fields in the Naming window This can be done through the AutoNaming feature e For a bold or bold italic version e Set Classification Weight to Bold on the Format menu click Settings and then click on the General tab e Set PANOSE Weight to Bold on the Format menu click Settings and then click on the Classification tab e For an italic or bold italic ver
47. anian Lithuania Croatian Croatia Dutch Flemish Belgium Dutch Standard Netherlands English Australia English Belize English Canada English Caribbean English Ireland v 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 49 4 5 2 3 For the Microsoft Unicode or Symbol Platform the language English United States should always be present Advanced Naming More and more fonts also have some other naming fields embedded These are made available through the Advanced Naming window where you can enter some specific Font vendor and Designer descriptions Normally these are only available for the Microsoft Platform and language English United States Advanced Naming Naming Include Font Vendor Include Font Vendor Link High Logic ul http fun high logic com Include Font Designer Include Font Designer Link High Logic Erwin Denissen lad http fu high logic com C Include License Agreement C Include License Agreement Link Include Description C Include Compatible Full Macintosh only MegaWaves is created with the FontCreator from H lad C Include Preferred Family Windows only C Include Preferred Subfamily Windows only C Sample Text C PostScript CID Findfont Name Font Vendor Manufacturer Name Font Vendor Link URL of font vendor with protocol e g http ftp If a
48. ant to use and press the Generate button Now you will see your image in the Glyph Edit window Finally make sure the contours are within the visible area as described in the previous section if necessary adjust the left and right bearings 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 10 FontCreator Help 2 4 Test and Install the Font Now we have finished the first two characters we want to see the result We test the new font by selecting Test in the Font menu Type upper case A and B in the text field to see your creation LF Test Font 48 U Sample Text AABBAB BABABBBA In order to install a font we first need to save the file Select Save as in the File menu and choose the name for example C MyFonts MyHandwriting ttf and destination Note It is not recommended to save font files directly into Windows Fonts folder To make your font available to other applications select Install in the Font menu The Font Installation wizard will guide you through the installation process At the end of the installation process you will be informed that the font is installed successfully Now you will be able to select the font in any program that supports TrueType fonts 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Quick Start Tutorial 11 Ny Document Microsoft Word Seles El 100 File Edit View Insert Format Tools Table Window H
49. asons the Font revision version is not used by Windows to determine the version of a font Instead Windows evaluates the version string from the Naming window Font Header Flags This field is used to specify the global information about the font Press the Edit button to modify this field through the Font Header Flags window Font direction hint Select the appropriate field Most Latin fonts have this value set to Only strong left to right Note A neutral character has no inherent directionality it is not a character with zero 0 width Spaces and punctuation are examples of neutral characters Non neutral characters are those with inherent directionality For example Roman letters left to right and Arabic letters right to left have directionality In a normal Roman font where spaces and punctuation are present the font direction hints should be set to Strong left to right contains neutrals Units Per Em Valid range is from 16 to 16384 This value should be a power of 2 for fonts that have 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 68 FontCreator Help TrueType outlines Nowadays 2048 units per em value is the best value for all fonts of any size including large Latin or non Latin script fonts This value is used to convert values in the pixel coordinate system by multiplying them by a scale This scale is pointSize resolution 72 points per inch units_per_em Smallest read
50. c keypad type 0 zero followed by the corresponding decimal character code Make sure NUM LOCK is on Another way to input Unicode characters is the hexadecimal entry method that works with WordPad 2000 XP and higher and Microsoft Word 2002 and higher probably more applications will follow soon Basically you type a character s hexadecimal code in ASCIl making corrections if needed and then type Alt X This will replace the hexadecimal code by the corresponding Unicode character The same key combination ALT X can be used to reveal a characters code If the hexadecimal code is preceded by one or more hexadecimal digits you need to select the code so that the preceding hexadecimal characters aren t included in the code The code can range up to the value 0x10FFFF which is the highest character in the 17 planes of Unicode International Keyboard Instead of memorizing a long list of Alt number combinations or using the Character Map you could change your language and layout from English US to United States International or any other available language on your system Here s how e Single click the Start menu mouse over Settings and then single click the Control Panel Double click the Keyboard icon and then click the Language tab Click Add Under Keyboard layout place a checkmark next to United States International Click OK Click Apply You may be asked to insert your Windows system disk to finish loading the proc
51. ct direction This problem will be reported when validating simple glyphs with contours that have an incorrect direction Contours that need to be filled black must have a clockwise direction If we want to make a white area inside an existing contour we must make the direction of the new contour counter clockwise Note This test will not be performed when Duplicate contours Intersecting coordinates or Contours with unknown direction have been reported Note The Validation features are not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 106 FontCreator Help 4 8 2 4 9 4 9 1 Results After the validation process the remaining problems are shown for all glyphs Optionally the report can be saved Font Validation Wizard 93 glyphs have problems 280 Simple glyph index 0004 2 o Off curve extreme coordinates E Contours with incorrect direction Simple glyph index 0005 F o Off curve extreme coordinates eg Intersecting coordinates Contours with incorrect direction Simple glyph index 0006 Duplicate contours a Contours with incorrect direction Simple glyph index 0007 Ps o Off curve extreme coordinates a Contours with incorrect direction Simple glyph index 0008 o s a Off curve extreme coordinates A Contours with incorrect direction Simple glyph index 0009 o ar E Asa nm aso E
52. d 500x500 pixels The image will be displayed on the left and there will be a bitmap that is going to be used for the conversion on the right There are some filters and other operations you can apply to the source image before starting the conversion The Threshold level is used to convert a color image into a black and white image The Threshold level is the lightness value above which colors are turned black All colors with lightness values above the level are turned into black At a Threshold level of 1 all colors except white change to black Check the Negative image field to invert the image Dilation causes objects to dilate or grow in size erosion causes objects to shrink The amount that they grow or shrink depend upon the value specified on the right of the selection box O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 101 4 6 6 Use the Smooth Filter to smooth the image This will usually reduce the number of generated points When the Import Mode is set to Trace the image will be converted with curves This is the recommended setting In case you don t want curves especially useful for bar code fonts and pixel fonts set the Import Mode to Pixels Check the Default field to save the current settings as the default for each new import These settings are also used when pasting an image from the clipboard Choosing to press the Cancel button will retain these default settings
53. de in this font according to the Microsoft Unicode BMP only or Microsoft Symbol mapping table This value depends on which character sets the font supports Tools Glyph Transformer The Transform wizard can be selected from the Tools menu It can transform a font or a selection of glyphs Open a script from file or select one or more features to build a script Save your script in case you want to use it another time When you have completed your script press the OK button to execute the script O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 90 FontCreator Help Transform wizard Range All Compose 4 Script Available Features Script Superscript xml Characters and Glyphs A Insert Characters 8304 185 178 179 8 Outlines CompleteComposites Nove Decom DOSE Scale 65 60 LT Rotate Bold 26 20 Scale Move 0 20 Mirror Width 808 Both Sides Skew Left Side Bearing Point at x 0 On OFF Curve gt lt 20 6 C3 ea Outlines Scale Horizontal Vertical 60 00 E Tip Save a copy of your font before using the Transform wizard as this operation is not undoable Note The Transform wizard is not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator 4 6 2 AutoMetrics 4 6 2 1 Glyph Selection With the Automatic Metrics wizard select AutoMetrics from the Tools menu you can generate the bearings for a selection of glyphs In the left
54. decrease Recommended Glyphs In addition to script and language specific punctuation and native numbers the following glyphs are highly recommended for inclusion in fonts First four glyphs TrueType outline fonts should have the following four glyphs at the beginning of a font These were listed in Apple s original TrueType specification These glyphs are recommended to allow for the same version of the font to work on both Windows and Macintosh Ld Font1 ttf 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 29 Glyph 0 is the notdef missing character glyph Glyph 1 is the null glyph it has no contours and zero advance width Glyph 2 is the nonmarkingreturn glyph it has no contours and positive advance width Glyph 3 is the space and no break space glyph it has no contours and positive advance width Index PostScript NameUnicode MacChar 0 notdef undefined 1 null 00 2 nonmarkingreturn 0D 3 space 0020 20 For the Macintosh platform all unmapped characters are mapped to the first glyph Glyph 2 and 3 should have the same advance width The notdef glyph is very important for providing the user feedback that a glyph is not found in the font This glyph should not be left without an outline as the user will only see what looks like a space if a glyph is missing and not be aware of the active font s limitation It is recommended that the shape of the notdef glyp
55. diacritical marks that are placed above and or below the base character Create composite glyphs You can a composite glyph when you are editing an empty glyph in a Glyph Edit window To add a composite glyph member select Glyph from the Insert menu To add one or more glyphs as composite glyph members first copy glyphs from the Glyph Overview window and 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 40 FontCreator Help then paste them into a Glyph Edit window that contains an empty glyph or a composite glyph Move selected glyph members You can change the position of each of the used glyphs within the Glyph Edit window To constrain a selection so it moves only horizontally or vertically press Shift as you drag the selection Press Alt to ignore the snap to grid and snap to guidelines features Transformations Besides moving glyph members it is possible to perform operations like scale and rotation by right clicking and select Glyph Member Properties Duplicate selected glyph members To copy selected composite glyph members to a new position hold down the Ctrl key as you drag the selection Hold the Alt key to ignore the snap to grid and snap to guidelines features Hold down the Shift key to move only in vertical or horizontal direction Any combination of these keys is allowed Convert to simple glyph To convert a composite glyph to a simple glyph select the glyph in the Glyph Overview w
56. dition File Edit View Insert Format Font Tools Window Help DAGA la Fe Sa Vga i es Cia 7 H tH 2 Ld Font1 ttf nonma quotedbl numbe dollar percent ampers quotesi parenleft 653 glyphs Now you will see the Glyph Overview window All cells have a caption and a part that shows the glyph The name can be seen in the caption area All glyphs with light blue outlines need glyph data In this tutorial we will add this data for glyphs mapped to character A and B 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved FontCreator Help 2 2 Edit a Glyph Character A From the Glyph Overview window we double click on the cell with the caption A Now we see the corresponding Glyph Edit window Choose Contour in the Insert menu During this operation a left mouse click creates a point onto the contour and a right mouse click creates a point off the contour used to create a B zier curve Press the Apply button or click on the first point to finish the contour We create two contours in order to complete the glyph D Font1 ttf Simple Glyph Index 0024 Caption A Ea fx units 1000 500 0 500 1000 1500 2000 died dd dd qt a a 4344 454 4 4454 E E E i i A New Contour Apply Back Cancel Contours that need to be filled black must have a clockwise direction If we want to make a white area inside an existing contour we must make t
57. e selected 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 124 FontCreator Help 6 1 5 through the Font used by samples box Select the kind of Caption that is used to display the postscript name the mappings or the index of the glyphs for each cell in the Overview window Glyph On the Tools menu click Options and then click the Glyph tab Options Naming Validation Advanced General Sample Font Overview Glyph Edit Zoom Simple Glyph Edit Window Auto Fit Glyph in Window Open with Default Zoom Factor 10 00 Here you can set the way a Glyph Edit window will show the glyph 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Customizing Font Creator 125 6 1 6 Edit On the Tools menu click Options and then click the Edit tab Options Naming Validation Advanced General Sample Font Overview Glyph Edit Undo limits Max count Max size KB Max count Select this check box and enter a value to place a limit on the number of steps of Undo Redo information FontCreator stores per font The range is from 1 to 999999 steps per open font Max size KB Select this check box and enter the amount of disk space for FontCreator to use when storing the Undo Redo information The value can be between 1 and 999999 KB of storage per open font O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 126 FontCreator Help
58. e shown with the largest zoom factor that also shows the ascender and descender lines There are three glyph types Empty glyphs Some glyphs don t have any outlines like the glyph that represents the space character However empty glyphs like all types do have bearings a space character has an advance width like any character Simple glyphs A simple glyph consists of a series of contours A contour is defined by a series of points In order to distinguish between contour and point related operations you can choose to work in contour or point mode At any time you can change between Contour and Point mode select the appropriate Mode from the View menu or press one of the triangle buttons on the Drawing toolbar Contours To select an external contour of a black area of a glyph click within the black area To select an internal contour of a black area click within the internal white area 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 33 4 4 2 no selection external internal both To select more than one contour press and hold down the Shift key while selecting contours Another way is to click on the workspace above and to the left of where the contours are and while holding down the left mouse button drag a rectangle around all contours you want to select simultaneously Use the Ctrl A shortcut or select Select All from the Edit menu to select all contours While holding do
59. e the twilight zone ZO or 2 if instructions do use Z0 should be set to 2 in most cases maxTwilightPoints Maximum points used in ZO maxStorage Number of Storage Area locations maxFunctionDefs Number of FDEFs maxinstructionDefs Number of IDEFs maxStackElements Maximum stack depth This includes Font and CVT Programs as well as the instructions for each glyph maxSizeOfInstructions Maximum byte count for glyph instructions maxComponentElements Maximum number of components referenced at top level for any composite glyph maxComponentDepth Maximum levels of recursion 1 for simple components X Minimum for all glyph bounding boxes Y Minimum for all glyph bounding boxes X Maximum for all glyph bounding boxes Y Maximum for all glyph bounding boxes The bounding box values computed using only glyphs that have contours advanceWidthMax Maximum advance width value minLeftSideBearing Minimum left sidebearing value 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 89 4 6 4 6 1 minRightSideBearing Minimum right sidebearing value xMaxExtent Maximum extent value usFirstCharlndex The minimum Unicode index character code in this font according to the Microsoft Unicode BMP only or Microsoft Symbol mapping table For most fonts supporting Win ANSI or other character sets this value would be 0x0020 usLastCharlndex The maximum Unicode index character co
60. ected Character 20AC EURO SIGN Add these characters and or character ranges For example 8364 FB50 FBFF FFFC 20A0 2044 20AC Cancel Note The number of glyphs that may be included in one font is limited to 65535 Note Insert Characters is not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 24 FontCreator Help 4 3 5 4 3 6 Insert Glyphs Select Glyphs in the Insert menu to add glyphs to the font This option is available when the Glyph Overview window is active Insert Glyphs Glyph insert options Insert 1 Glyphis t top After last glyph Before each selected glyph After each selected glyph Note The number of glyphs that may be included in one font is limited to 65535 Copy and Paste Glyphs The Paste Special command is used to specify what parts of a group of glyphs already copied to the clipboard should be pasted You can select any number of glyphs in the Glyph Overview window by clicking on them while holding down the Ctrl key You can perform several operations on the selected glyphs If you paste the selection to another font the glyphs will be pasted to the selected glyphs If you want the pasted glyphs to be placed in another position you can select the same number of glyphs you copied prior to the paste action or select just one glyph Paste Special Items Y Glyph Outli
61. eeseneseenseenes 18 Repeat Your Last Action 19 Finding A Glyph iii ita 19 Bookmarks sorisa Saesaare anea aar ea aeaa Anaa aa t icc lereni Asaa Ere i EPAYE aR Eae AEE ar aN 19 EIN FONTS Aa EESE ENEAS ERRE 20 Using the Glyph Overview iii aannaaien aaka aa a AE Ea NANANA aa Aaaa EEA Eaa aaaea 20 Glyph Properties cssccssesseseeeseesseeseeneesenenee 21 Used By oniscinasanicnnainanacananrnconenacoasancar sonanasaen na 22 Insert Character nomocconnonnonncncnnncnnnnannnncnnennnernnnns 23 Insert Gy PINS iraia aiana 24 Copy and Paste Glyphs ccococccccnnnnonnnnncnnennnnnnanas 24 Adding a New Character the EURO Sign 25 FONENAME sescescrcescssccniessndsadsncsceccoaseapesnisncstonsuadsaveaicecsssaidasesbesudarsaddedcaiscsusecnestesbesdsersauesiieiseddiesadsidvsssccareateasdendedsna 26 FONETYDO E E E 26 Font Embedding 27 Unicode versus Symbol riaan anrea enean naaa aaae aee aaraa aAA aAA A A saaesctuadesuaeduevsadsucevascquecuelseveevaues 27 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved FontCreator Help Monospaced versus Proportional 28 Recommended GIY PIS occcscccck cecceescestvseciveceosscecscuedcouesanscescenesstevsceisuscesshecnsses ices vesuersteevececeescssessssucedcbosdensesubesseseees 28 eala BELA o E iii cion 31 incomplete Gly ONS sessista parsaa ea nesar at Aia 32 RAZA REP A aaaea aa a a aa e ariaa napina aN Aiaia 32 INTO UICN iii das 32 A O O 33 Empty Glyphs
62. eight and the caption 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Customizing Font Creator 123 Options Naming Validation Advanced General Sample Font Overview Glyph Edit Font overview Glyph width 65 Glyph height 53 El Show caption C Smooth glyphs Show sample in empty glyphs Use type color in glyph caption Font used by samples Arial Unicode MS Caption Postscript name O Macintosh mappings Microsoft Mappings O Unicode mappings O 150 mappings O Glyph Index In the Overview window all glyphs are displayed in a cell Use Glyph width and Glyph height to change the size of these cells Select the Show caption check box to display the caption To distinguish the types of glyphs the captions have different colors e Grey empty glyph e Pink empty glyph used by composite glyph s e Green simple glyph consists of contours e Red simple glyph that is also used by a composite glyph e Blue composite glyph consists of other glyphs e Purple composite glyph used by other composite glyph s Unselect Use type color in glyph caption to show all captions in black Select Smooth glyphs to smooth the edges of the outlines This is off by default as screen redrawing may be slow with less powerful computers With the Show sample in empty glyphs feature all empty glyphs will be presented by a sample glyph These samples will be displayed in gray with the font that can b
63. elp DRA 46RyY rasa o a Heading 1 y My Handwriting For 24 B Z i Egr E z AA BB AB BABABBBA Page 1 Sec 1 At 3 4cm Col 9 REC TRK ExT OvR English 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved About Fonts 13 3 About Fonts 3 1 TrueType TrueType is a scalable font technology designed by Apple Computer and now used by both Apple and Microsoft in their operating systems TrueType fonts offer the highest possible quality on computer screens and printers and include a range of features which make them easy to use A TrueType font file contains data in table format that comprises an outline font Rasterizers use combinations of data from the tables contained in the font to render the glyph outlines Some descriptions of various fields in this document are copied from the specification available online at http www microsoft com typography otspec default htm 1 3 2 OpenType The OpenType font format is an extension of the TrueType font format allowing support for PostScript font data Technically there are two OpenType Font flavours TrueType based ttf and PostScript based otf OpenType was developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe to produce a hybrid between Type 1 and TrueType fonts with additional features that work on Macintosh and Windows computers OpenType fonts can include the OpenType Layout tables which allow font creators to design be
64. es should be selected and Symbol Character Set should be the only selected Code Page Range Monospaced versus Proportional A monospaced font is a font where all characters have the same width These fonts are often used to emulate typewriter output for reports tabular work and technical documentation In a proportional font the width of each character including the space character varies with the shape of the character Proportional fonts are easier to read and are preferred for publishing applications From proportional to monospaced To change a proportional spaced font into a monospaced font follow these steps e Select the AutoMetrics command Tools menu to force the advance width to be the same for all glyphs except for the second glyph normally called null this glyphs advance width should be zero e If necessary change the outlines of glyphs that are too wide e In the Settings command Format menu on the Classification tab set Proportion to Monospaced e In the Settings command Format menu on the Header tab make sure the check box Instructions may alter advance width is not checked e In the Settings command Format menu on the Post tab set Fixed Pitch to a non zero value e g 1 e Finally in the Tables command Format menu you might have to remove two internal tables if available hdmx and LTSH If the font seems to be changed you could also remove the hinting related data although this will result in a quality
65. ess You can type in other languages without knowing the Alt codes for a non English alphabet For example type followed by N to get N A tilde followed by any letter will place the appropriate accent on the letter you choose 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 108 FontCreator Help 4 9 3 4 9 4 Test your Fonts If you want to know how your font is going to look you can test it any time during the development process L3 Test Font 32 U Sample Text High Logic FontCreator abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890 You can enter your own text into the Test window FontCreator will remember this text so you can always test your fonts with your preferred text If you want to test how your font will look when it s printed you press the Print button The Bold and Italic buttons are available for fonts that really are bold italic or bold italic Installing Fonts Although it is possible to install a font through Windows fonts folder FontCreator has its own Font Installation wizard To make your font available to other applications select Install in the Font menu The Font Installation wizard will guide you through the installation process At the end of the installation process you will be informed that the font is installed successfully Now you will be able to select the font in any program that supports TrueType fonts 1997 200
66. ess the Fonts folder and Character Map select Launch Externals from the Tools menu and select the tool you want to open Printing Print Font This option select Print in the File menu is available when the Glyph Overview window is active If a Glyph Edit window is active you will be able to print a glyph Print Font Print what Range Glyphs all Selected You can choose what kind of font information you want to print e Glyphs 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 103 e Properties e Kerning pairs Print Glyphs Print all or the selected glyphs Print Properties Print all fields from the Font Properties window Print Kerning pairs Print all kerning pairs also available from the Kerning window 4 7 2 Print Glyph Select Print in the File menu to print a single glyph This option is available when a Glyph Edit window is active If the Glyph Overview window is active you will be able to print the font Print Glyph Range Print Options all C Print Grid C Print Points Selected C Print Bearings C Fill Outlines The print options allow you to print the grid points and bearings and you can choose to fill the outlines 4 8 Font Validation 4 8 1 Setup Designing glyphs can be very complicated The Font Validation wizard available from the Font menu identifies common potential problems and if possible points you to the specific item
67. etection will be disabled for too complex glyphs The complexity is determined through the Validation settings in the Options window Red marks in the Glyph Edit window will show the position of the located problems LF MyHandwriting2 ttf Simple Glyph Index 0005 Caption quotedbl Ea fx 600 400 200 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 units ade dd dd dd 1d Ce RN A OO La AA AAA A A A A AA A Not every problem should be classified as an error its the designers decision to ignore potential problems or not Double click on a reported problem to focus the problematic point O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Toolbars 113 or contour There are several buttons on the Validation toolbar that will perform actions that will automatically solve some specific problems Enable real time glyph problem detection Use this button to enable and disable real time glyph problem detection Refresh When real time validation is not enabled use this button to revalidate the glyph Save report Use this button to save the report to file Show intersecting components and contours Intersections will be shown when this button is enabled and is down Red crosses in the Glyph Edit window will show the position of the intersections Show warning points Warning points will be shown when this button is enabled and is down Red bullets in the Glyph Edit window will show the position of the located proble
68. font from My Computer or Windows Explorer context menus Select one or more font files in a Windows Explorer window then right click any of the selected files and choose Open with FontCreator from the context menu Reopen a font file To open a font that you ve used recently choose Reopen from the File menu to display the names of the last ten used fonts Click on the font you want to use Warning If you want to open fonts that are located in Windows fonts folder you should use the Installed Fonts command or drag and drop because this folder is marked by Windows to be a special folder and therefore behaves differently e g it shows font names instead of file names Warning Really large fonts can only be loaded when your system has enough internal memory 4 1 2 Create a Font On the File menu click New to create a new font New TrueType Font Font Family name Character set Unicode characters Symbol signs signatures Font style Regular Italic Bold Bold Italic Font family name In Windows the Font family name is displayed in the font menu The Font family name will appear as the font name when you select a font in a word processing program etc Character Set Select Unicode for normal fonts like Arial and Times New Roman and Symbol for fonts that include symbols signs signatures pictures decorations arrows and bullets like Webdings and Wingdings Font style The font will be identified
69. font there are a few things e Make sure the Microsoft platform is Microsoft Unicode BMP only From the Platform Manager command Format menu select the Microsoft platform Now press the Change button The platform should be changed from Microsoft Symbol to Microsoft Unicode BMP only e In the Settings command Format menu on the Classification tab set the PANOSE Family Kind from Pictorial to something appropriate and the Font family Class from Symbolic to something that suits the fonts style e In the Settings command Format menu on the Ranges tab change the Code Page Character Ranges if available Unselect Symbol Character Set and select the appropriate ranges From Unicode to Symbol In order to change a normal font into a symbol font there are a few things e Make sure the Microsoft platform is Microsoft Symbol From the Platform Manager command Format menu select the Microsoft platform Now press the Change button The platform should be changed from Microsoft Unicode BMP only to Microsoft Symbol e In the Settings window Format menu on the Classification tab set the PANOSE Family Kind to Pictorial PANOSE Weight to No Fit PANOSE Contrast to No Fit and the Font family Class to Symbolic O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 28 FontCreator Help 4 3 12 4 3 13 e In the Settings window Format menu on the Ranges tab no Unicode Character Rang
70. formation in the font file Empty glyphs the y and the braceleft will show a sample character based on the first valid Microsoft mapping Each cell has a caption that is used to display the postscript name the mappings or the index of the glyphs To select the kind of caption select Options on the Tools menu and go to the Overview tab page or right click in the Glyph Overview window and select a specific caption O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 21 4 3 2 Glyph Properties You can change the glyph s properties by right clicking a single glyph in the Glyph Overview window or Glyph Edit window and selecting the Properties menu item Here you can edit the Postscript Name Metrics and Mappings General information about the glyph is found on the General page The features at the Mappings page are also available through Mappings from the Format menu Properties General Mappings Postscript Name seven Glyph Information Glyph Metrics Type Simple Left Side Bearing 268 s A e Advance Width 1400 White space before character 268 x 0 White space after character 268 x 1400 es 1549 Postscript Name The Postscript Name of the glyph It has the same value as found in the Postscript Names window accessed from the Post menu item from the Format menu Left Side Bearing The horizontal start position of the glyph Advance Width The width of
71. forum is free There s a good chance other people have asked the same questions as you so you may be able to find the answers you need Feedback and suggestions are also welcome in the forum http forum high logic com 1 Frequently Asked Questions View the most frequently asked questions and answers about FontCreator here http www high logic com fontcreator faq html 1 O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved FontCreator Help 1 4 Registration Evaluation After using FontCreator for a 30 day trial period you must register and pay for it or remove it from your system Registering makes your copy legal and helps support our efforts to develop innovative products to best serve your needs Thank you for your support of FontCreator Why Register Registration allows you to continue using FontCreator 5 5 and entitles you to the following benefits e For 12 months free updates of all versions of FontCreator e All future versions of FontCreator 5 x e Direct e mail support from the developers Home Edition versus Professional Edition The professional edition incorporates all features available in the Home Edition and also includes these additional features Complete Composites adds glyoh members from composite data Insert Characters feature to add one or more characters at once Advanced contour operations Union Intersection and Exclusion Knife feature to split contours Batch tra
72. g This wizard will update the naming fields for English United States for the Microsoft Unicode or Symbol Platform and for English for the Macintosh Roman platform Other already available Font subfamily name and Full font name fields for the Microsoft Unicode or Symbol Platform will also be updated These fields are from the file subfamily dat 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 98 FontCreator Help 4 6 4 2 Automatic Naming Wizard Font Family name MegaWaves Font subfamily name will be exposed by Windows Regular v Font subfamily name is taken from the Font Design fields from the Windows page in the Font Settings window The Next button takes you to the next page where modifications to some other naming fields can be made Note The Font Design fields will not be updated if you select another Font subfamily name in this wizard Suggested Name Fields This page suggests naming fields based on the Font family name and Font subfamily name as entered on the previous page On the Naming tab accessed by Tools gt Options there is a box marked Version String use Font revision gt Version from Font Settings gt Header page If this box is checked the Font revision Version from the Font Settings window available from the Format gt Settings gt Header page is used to format the suggested Version string If this box is not checked the current Versio
73. h Index Mappings Encoding Format Segmented coverage Platforms Macintosh Roman Microsoft Unicode BMP onl coser racectoka REE Unicode full repertoire z Unicode 2 0 and onwards semantics BMP Include Microsoft Unicode BMP only Glyphs LATIN CAPITAL LETTER 4 WITH TILDE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WITH TILDE LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE EN DASH Mappings Value Character Name 0152 LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE Cancel Microsoft uses a Unicode or a Symbol mapping scheme This does not mean that all versions of Microsoft s Windows support all mappings Note All numbers are in decimal for example 383 or hexadecimal for example 0x01 7F format You can switch between these formats in the Options window on the General page available through Options from the Tools menu Symbol character sets have a special meaning All of the characters in the Unicode range 0xF000 OxFOFF this is the Private Use Area of Unicode will be used to enumerate the symbol character set Microsoft suggests deriving the symbol encodings by simply adding OxF000 to the Macintosh encodings Note only the first 224 characters of symbol fonts will be accessible a space and up to 223 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 54 FontCreator Help printing characters 4 5 3 2 Add Character to Glyph Index Mapping By clicking on the Se
74. h be either an empty rectangle a rectangle with a question mark inside of it or a rectangle with an X Creative shapes like swirls or other symbols may not be recognized by users as indicating that a glyph is missing from the font and is not being displayed at that location General punctuation and Latin numbers PostScript NameDescriptive Name Sample Unicode MacChar space space 0020 20 exclam exclamation mark 0021 21 quotedbl quotation mark i 0022 22 numbersign number sign 0023 23 dollar dollar sign 0024 24 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 30 FontCreator Help percent percentsign 0025 25 ampersand ampersand amp 0026 26 quotesingle apostrophe 0027 27 parenleft left parenthesis 0028 28 parenright right parenthesis 0029 29 asterisk asterisk 002A 2A plus plus sign 002B 2B comma comma 002C 2C hyphen hyphen minus 002D 2D period period 002E 2E slash slash 002F 2F zero digit zero 0 0030 30 one digit one 1 0031 31 two digit two 2 0032 32 three digit three 3 0033 33 four digit four 4 0034 34 five digit five 5 0035 35 six digit six 6 0036 36 seven digit seven 7 0037 37 eight digit eight 8 0038 38 nine digit nine 9 0039 39 colon colon 003A 3A semicolon semicolon 003B 3B less less than sign lt 003C 3C Quotes and Ellipsis Smart quotes also known as curly quotes are fancy characters which make tex
75. he direction of the new contour counter clockwise The contours should stay within the visible area this area is defined by the two black horizontal lines and the left and right bearings vertical dashed lines Make sure the glyph is within this area parts outside this area will most likely be invisible The left and right bearings can be changed by dragging them to their desired position The glyph should be positioned between these lines otherwise characters will overlap each other We close the Glyph Edit window to return to the Glyph Overview window O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Quick Start Tutorial 9 2 3 Edit a Glyph Character B To personalize character B we want to import an image of our own handwritten B This image should not be too small or to large we recommend an image dimension of 300x300 pixels Bitmap GIF and JPG images can be created with a paint program and if you have a scanner you could also import an image of your character B into the appropriate software L Font1 ttf Simple Glyph Index 0025 Caption B SEE 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 units E TE TN A 000 ed jail aie dia vial Ga L OO ln l Jl l J J l J From the Glyph Overview window we double click on the cell with the caption B Choose Import Image in the Tools menu Press the Load button to select the image you w
76. height and select the font filename to be used in the Samples toolbar In order to use the default samples leave the filename field empty O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Customizing Font Creator 121 6 1 3 Font On the Tools menu click Options and then click the Font tab Options Naming Validation Advanced General Sample Font Overview Glyph Edit When Opening Font Files When Saving Font Files C Remove unsupported tables C Always create backup copy bak C Remove hinting data Optimize name table C Remove DSIG table Compress hmtx table C Remove LTSH table Exclude monospaced fonts C Remove YDMX table O Recalc glyph bounding boxes C Remove hdmx table Update Modified DateTime field Recalc average char width Long aligned local offsets Set left side bearing point at x 0 Exclude large 1500 fonts Select the actions you want to be performed when a font file is opened Unsupported tables and existing hinting data can be preserved or deleted Some other tables can be removed by selecting the corresponding check boxes There are some options that can be performed when saving font files Always create backup copy bak Copies the previous version of a font file as a backup copy every time you save a font Each new backup copy replaces the previous backup copy FontCreator saves the backup copy with a file name extension bak in the same folder as the original and
77. hs to be used for the Automatic Kerning wizard manually or load them from file Note The Import kerning pairs from file option is not available for symbol fonts Existing kerning pairs Select the appropriate field The Next button takes you to the next where you can select glyphs or import kerning pairs from file Note The Automatic Kerning wizard is not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator Import This step is used to import kerning pairs from file Press the button to select the file with the kerning pairs Tip Several kerning pair files are available from the kerning folder Format should be lt First Glyph ASCII Character or Unicode Value gt lt Second Glyph ASCII O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 94 FontCreator Help Character or Unicode Value gt lt carriage return or space gt lt The rest of the line is ignored gt Because Character is used as prefix for hexadecimal Unicode values the ASCII character should be placed twice to distinguish between them For example 2019 is a followed by a quoteright 20195 is a quoteright followed by digit 5 Automatic Kerning Wizard Filename kerr stan dar d t t Kerning pairs 209 P P F PA Tip To generate a kerning pair file with a list of kerning pairs from another font open this particular font and go to Kerning window from the Format menu and press the Save as Text button The
78. ic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 71 Subscript vertical The recommended vertical size in font design units for subscripts for this font Subscript x offset The recommended horizontal offset in font design units for subscripts for this font Subscript y offset The recommended vertical offset in font design units from the baseline for subscripts for this font Superscript horizontal The recommended horizontal size in font design units for superscripts for this font Superscript vertical The recommended vertical size in font design units for superscripts for this font Superscript x offset The recommended horizontal offset in font design units for superscripts for this font Superscript y offset The recommended vertical offset in font design units from the baseline for superscripts for this font Strikeout size Width of the strikeout stroke in font design units This field should normally be the width of the em dash for the current font If the size is one the strikeout line will be the line represented by the strikeout position field If the value is two the strikeout line will be the line represented by the strikeout position and the line immediately above the strikeout position For a Roman font with a 2048 em square 102 is suggested Strikeout position The position of the strikeout stroke relative to the baseline in font design units The value of strikeout position should not interfere
79. indow or in the Glyph Edit window and select Make Simple from the Edit menu 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 41 4 4 5 2 Add Glyph Member If you wish to edit an empty glyph or modify a composite glyph you can select Glyph from the Insert menu Select Composite Glyph Member W le ogonek Scaron ety le Zcaron e z Postscript Name Mapping Index Part of Postscript Name circum Ss In the Select Composite Glyph Member window select the glyph you want to add to the composite glyph and press the OK button O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 42 FontCreator Help 4 4 5 3 Glyph Member Properties When you have opened a composite glyph in the Glyph Edit window you can modify the properties of each composite glyph member right click the Glyph Member and click Glyph Member Properties Composite Glyph Properties 2 of 2 glyphs Composite Member Glyph Index 00DF Position Scale x offset 1375 x direction 1 0000 y offset 1362 y direction 1 0000 b s Rotation None 180 degrees O 90 degrees O 270 degrees Flags C Use this glyphs metrics _ Overlap compound Round xy to arid C Scaled component offset C No overlap C Unscaled component offset In the Composite Glyph Properties window you can modify the position scale rotation and special flags of the selected member
80. ing FontCreator Preview Area FontCreator Preview Area Change the value of the Font Size field to change the size of the text Check the kerning box to include kerning support Note to enter non ASCII characters enable Unicode Support or use lt CODE gt where lt CODE gt is a 4 digit hexadecimal number that indicates the Unicode value To enter a backslash type it twice Background Image You can add a background image on a Glyph Edit window through the Background toolbar It can help you with your glyph design 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Toolbars 115 Ld MegaWaves ttf Simple Glyph Index 0025 Caption B SEE 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 units Bob ses tad a yp a J i A x position Y position Scale Visible 4 al J 4 al J 4 4 Al 4 J To add a background image click the Load button and select the image you want to use Use the position and scale fields to move and scale the image 5 6 Comparison You can show glyphs with kerning before and after the current glyph in a Glyph Edit window through the Comparison toolbar It can help you accurately position composite glyph members such as diacritics and help you with aligning flowing scripts and other aspects of your glyph design 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved
81. irectly related to those in the With field SerifStyle This field contains the PCL serif style value The most significant 2 bits of this byte specify the serif sans or contrast monoline characteristics of the typeface Bottom 6 bit values 0 Sans Serif Square 1 Sans Serif Round 2 Serif Line 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 63 Serif Triangle Serif Swath Serif Block Serif Bracket Rounded Bracket Flair Serif Modified Sans Script Nonconnecting o ON Oo h O 10 Script Joining 11 Script Calligraphic 12 Script Broken Letter Top 2 bit values 0 reserved 1 Sans Serif Monoline 2 Serif Contrasting 3 reserved TypeFace This 16 byte ASCII string appears in the font print of PCL printers Care should be taken to insure that the base string for all typefaces of a family are consistent and that the designators for bold italic etc are standardized CharacterComplement This 8 byte field identifies the symbol collections provided by the font each bit identifies a symbol collection and is independently interpreted Symbol set bound fonts should have this field set to all F s except bit 0 Examples OxFFFFFFFFOO3FFFFE DOS PCL Complement OxFFFFFFFF37FFFFFE Windows 3 1 ANSI OxFFFFFFFF36FFFFFE Macintosh OxFFFFFFFF3BFFFFFE ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 OxFFFFFFFFOBFFFFFE ISO 8859 1 2 9 Latin 1 2 5 The character collections identified by each bit are as f
82. ite space before characters 100 White space after characters 1100 O Fixed Change Left Side Bearing Change Advance Width 0 Current Advance Width is 821 Additional Options Exclude empty glyphs recommended If Calculated is selected the white spaces before and after the selected glyphs will be modified If Fixed is chosen the left side bearing and the advance width will be modified Press the Finish button to return to the Glyph Overview window to check the result Note Fixed is useful for the digit characters 0 to 9 which should all have the same advance width Note The positions of the glyphs in the Glyph Edit window will not be changed just the bearings Tip In the Glyph Edit window you can step through with the Back and Forward blue arrows in the Drawing toolbar to check the result and make adjustments AutoKern Setup With the Automatic Kerning wizard select AutoKern from the Tools menu you can generate kerning pairs for a selection of glyphs Warning Although it is possible to add kerning pairs to a symbol font it is not 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 93 4 6 3 2 recommended Automatic Kerning Wizard Kerning pair selection select glyphs Import kerning pairs From file Existing kerning pairs Don t include existing kerning pairs Add new kerning pairs to existing kerning pairs Kerning pair selection Select glyp
83. ize selected contours When you select one or more contours a box with resizing handles shows up around the selected contour s Click and drag one of those resizing handles to change the size of the selected contour s To keep the selected contour s proportional to the original size as you resize it press the Shift key while you drag one of the resizing handles located at the corners Move selected contours To constrain a selection so it moves only horizontally or vertically press Shift as you drag the selection Press Alt to ignore the snap to grid and snap to guidelines features Duplicate selected contours To copy selected contours to a new position hold down the Ctrl key as you drag the selection Hold the Alt key to ignore the snap to grid and snap to guidelines features Hold down the Shift key to move only in vertical or horizontal direction Any combination of these keys is allowed Rotate selected contours You can rotate by first selecting a contour or more and then select it again don t double click The little rectangles on the corners have changed into circles These can be used to rotate the selected contour s The other four rectangles are used to skew the selection To change the origin for the rotation you can move the little cross in the middle of your selection 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 37 I COUR TTF Simple Glyph Index 0008 Cap
84. l chars Taiwan and Hong Kong 950 C Korean Johab 1361 _ Reserved for Alternate ANSI amp OEM C Reserved for Alternate ANSI amp OEM C Reserved for Alternate ANSI amp OEM Note Symbol character sets have a special meaning If the Symbol Character Set is selected and the font file contains a Microsoft Symbol platform then all of the characters in the Unicode range 0xF000 OxFOFF inclusive will be used to enumerate the symbol character set If this code page is not selected any characters present in that range will not be enumerated as a symbol character set 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 85 4 5 9 6 Post This page contains information needed to use TrueType fonts on PostScript printers On the Format menu click Settings and then click the Post tab Font Settings Header General Classification Metrics Ranges Post Additional Information Memory Usage Italic Angle degrees 12 00 Minimum Type42 0 Underline Position 217 Maximum Type42 o Underline Thickness 2 15 Minimum Typel o Fixed Pitch 0 Maximum Typel o Italic Angle Italic angle in counter clockwise degrees from the vertical Zero for upright text negative for text that leans to the right forward This value should be in agreement with the Caret Slope Rise and Caret Slope Run values in the General tab Underline Position Suggested values for the underline positio
85. lect button in the Character to Glyph Index Mappings window a new window will pop up Here you can select a Unicode value Add Character to Glyph Index Mapping Unicode Blocks Start Stop Name 0000 007F Basic Latin 0080 00FF Latin 1 Supplement 0100 017F Latin Extended 4 0180 024F Latin Extended B 0250 024F IPA Extensions 0280 02FF Spacing Modifier Letters 0300 036F Combining Diacritical Marks 0370 03FF Greek and Coptic 0400 04FF Cyrillic Characters Yalue Glyph Name 014B 01BE LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG 014C 01BF LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH MACRON 014D 01C0 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH MACRON 014E 01C1 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH BREVE 014F 01C2 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH BREVE 0150 0117 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE 0151 0118 LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DOUBLE ACUTE 0152 00AF LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE 0153 00B0 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE 0154 0119 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE 0155 0114 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE 0156 01C3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CEDILLA 0157 0104 LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CEDILLA 0158 011B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH CARON 0159 011C LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CARON 0154 011D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH ACUTE Note If you take a look at the first two blocks Basic Latin and Latin 1 Supplement you ll notice that glyph mappings between 0 and 31 and between 127 and 159 are not accessible in Windows The steps bel
86. lines and change the guidelines style and color The Snap to Guidelines function automatically places selected glyphs contours and points along the guidelines When you release a selection the FontCreator moves it until the edges are aligned with the nearest horizontal or vertical guidelines It is also possible to snap points to diagonal guidelines You must choose the Show Guidelines command before you can use the Snap to Guidelines function To activate the Snap to Guidelines function select the Snap check box click the Snap to Guidelines button on the toolbar or choose Snap to Guidelines from the View menu Select the Lock check box or select the Lock Guidelines button on the toolbar to make the guidelines unchangeable This prevents accidentally moving guidelines Press the New button to define a new guideline Press the Modify button to modify an existing guideline To delete an existing guideline select it from the list view and click the Delete button Use the Clear button to remove all guidelines If you want to add a horizontal or vertical guideline you can drag one from the top or O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Customizing Font Creator 131 left hand ruler in the Glyph Edit window Hold down the left mouse button and release it after you have moved the pointer to the desired position To remove a guideline simply drag it back to the ruler In order to rotate a guideline press and h
87. ll size Decrease the cell size 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 134 FontCreator Help Keys for working in the Glyph Edit window Press Plus Sign or Ctrl Plus Sign Minus Sign or Ctrl Minus Sign Alt Left Arrow Alt Right Arrow Alt Enter O I gt Q0 7n Z W Space Left mouse button Double click Double click on rulers Double click on guideline Shift click on guideline Ctrl Drag guideline Click on selected contour Shift Mouse Ctrl Mouse To Increase the zoom factor Decrease the zoom factor To previous glyph To next glyph To glyph s properties Change selected points to on curve Change selected points to off curve Add guideline two points need to be selected Add points after selected points While pressed down hides everything except the glyph Select previous contour point index or composite glyph member Select next contour point index or composite glyph member Fit to Window Move around the Glyph Edit window While editing an empty or simple glyph this will switch contour point mode While editing a composite glyph this will open the composite glyoh member properties window Edit guidelines Adjust guideline Rotate guideline Duplicate guideline show hide rotate and skew handles Constrain movement and scaling Duplicate selected contour Not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all
88. m The Font Subfamily name field should be used for variants of weight ultra light to extra black and style oblique italic or not So for example the full font name of Helvetica Narrow ltalic should be defined as Family name Helvetica Narrow and Subfamily Italic This is so that Windows can group the standard four weights of a font in a reasonable fashion for non typographically aware applications which only support combinations of bold and italic In Windows the Font Family name is displayed in the font menu the Font Subfamily name is presented as the Style name The Font Family name will appear as the font name when you select a font in a word processing program etc O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 47 Platform Naming Macintosh Roman Include copyright notice Microsoft Unicode BMP onl Typeface High Logic 2006 All Rights Reserved ll Microsoft Unicode full repertoire Unicode 1 0 semantics Include Font Family name MegaWaves Include Font subfamily name Language Regular Basque Spain Include unique font identifier Catalan Spain Czech Czech Republic MegaWaves Version 1 10 Danish Denmark Dutch Standard Netherlands Include Full font name Enalish United States MegaWaves Finnish Finland French Canada Include version string French Standard France i German Standard Germany Version 1 10 May
89. map embedding only Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved Comments If multiple embedding flags are set the least restrictive license granted takes precedence For example Restricted License embedding and Editable embedding are set Editable embedding takes precedence over Restricted License embedding and the font may be embedded with editable rights For compatibility purposes most vendors granting Editable embedding rights are also setting the Preview amp Print flag This will permit an application that only supports Preview amp Print embedding to detect that font embedding is allowed Installable embedding Fonts that have none of the flags set are installable embedding fonts Fonts with this setting 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 74 FontCreator Help 4 5 9 3 indicate that they may be embedded and permanently installed on the remote system by an application The user of the remote system acquires the identical rights obligations and licenses for that font as the original purchaser of the font and is subject to the same end user license agreement copyright design patent and or trademark as was the original purchaser Restricted License embedding Fonts that have this flag set must not be modified embedded or exchanged in any manner without first obtaining permission of the legal owner Caution
90. mbination of off and on curve points is acceptable when defining a curve Straight lines are defined by two consecutive on curve points TA wT Contours that need to be filled black must have a clockwise direction If we want to make a white area inside an existing contour we must make the direction of the new contour counter clockwise Contour direction is determined by seeing in which direction the point index values increase or decrease Contour direction is from the smaller point index to the larger The general rule is that the contour direction should be such that black is on the right Using the glyph O as an example the outer contour should travel clockwise and the inner contour counter clockwise Click the Correct contour directions button on the Validation toolbar to correct the direction of all misoriented contours in a simple glyph or select Direction from the Edit menu to change the direction of the selected contour s The character 4 is represented by a glyph with two contours One contour you see as the 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 35 black area and the white area within this glyph is the other contour i3 COUR TTF Simple Glyph Index 0017 Caption four Ea fx 250 0 250 500 750 1000 1250 1500 wits rs di E i A 00 ln ooor o H j J j J j
91. ms Correct contour directions Use this button to correct the direction of all misoriented contours in a simple glyph This button is only enabled when contour direction problems are detected Note This test will not be performed when Duplicate contours or Intersecting coordinates have been reported Remove duplicate components and contours This button will remove duplicate components from a composite glyph and will remove duplicate contours from a simple glyph Remove empty components and contours with one and two points This button will remove empty components from a composite glyph and will remove contours with one and two points from a simple glyph Remove redundant points Press this button to remove all redundant points Note This feature won t remove duplicate knots as this would affect the outline Add on curve extremes Press this button to add on curve extremes This feature will add global or local extremes as customized through the Options window Note As this feature generates new points this could lead to new redundant points Note The Validation features are not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 114 FontCreator Help 5 4 5 5 Preview While editing a font you can preview the results with the Preview toolbar You can choose a standard text sample from the drop down list or enter your own text 32 a Kern
92. n negative values indicate below baseline Underline Thickness Suggested values for the underline thickness Note Word processing applications decide whether they use these underlinePosition and O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 86 FontCreator Help underlineThickness values or use their own defaults Warning Some Word processors may crash when this value is set to zero Fixed Pitch Set to 0 if the font is proportionally spaced non zero if the font is not proportionally spaced i e Monospaced Minimum Type42 Minimum memory usage when a TrueType font is downloaded Maximum Type42 Maximum memory usage when a TrueType font is downloaded Minimum Type1 Minimum memory usage when a TrueType font is downloaded as a Type 1 font Maximum Type Maximum memory usage when a TrueType font is downloaded as a Type 1 font The four entries related to memory are present because PostScript drivers can do better memory management if the virtual memory VM requirements of a downloadable TrueType font are known before the font is downloaded This information should be supplied if known If it is not Known set the value to zero The driver will still work but will be less efficient Maximum memory usage is minimum memory usage plus maximum runtime memory use Maximum runtime memory use depends on the maximum band size of any bitmap potentially rasterized by the TrueType font scaler Runtime memo
93. n string is used The Modified field from the Header page is used to add date information to the Version string See the previous information in the Manual about the Naming window with regard to legal 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 99 values for these fields Automatic Naming Wizard Font Family name MegawWaves Font subfamily name will be exposed by Windows Regular Unique font identifier MegaWaves Yersion 1 10 Eull font name will be exposed by Windows MegawWaves Version string Version 1 10 May 22 2006 Postscript name For the Font MegawWaves Click the Finish button when you accept the new values otherwise click the Back or Cancel button 4 6 5 Import Image Import image can be selected from the Tools menu when you have activated a Glyph Edit window or it can be selected from the context menu after right clicking in the window O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 100 FontCreator Help Import Image Image Glyph Source image Image used when generating contours Threshold Erode Dilate No filter 0 C Negative L J l Smooth Filter Import Mode O None O Smooth Super Trace O Pixels When you click on the Load button you get an open dialog box where you can open an image file recommended image dimension between 100x100 an
94. n the value of TypoAscender must be set to 880 Failing to adhere to these requirements will result in incorrect vertical layout O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 77 Typo Descender The typographic descender for this font Remember that this is not the same as the Descender value in the Header tab which Apple defines in a far different manner The suggested usage for Typo Descender is that it be used in conjunction with unitsPerEm to compute a typographically correct default line spacing The goal is to free applications from Macintosh or Windows specific metrics which are constrained by backward compatibility requirements These new metrics when combined with the character design widths will allow applications to lay out documents in a typographically correct and portable fashion For CJK Chinese Japanese and Korean fonts that are intended to be used for vertical writing in addition to horizontal writing the required value for Typo Descender is that which describes the bottom of the design space aka em square For example if the design space of the font extends from coordinates 0 120 to 1000 880 that is a 1000x1000 box set 120 design units below the Latin baseline then the value of Typo Descender must be set to 120 Failing to adhere to these requirements will result in incorrect vertical layout Typo Line Gap The typographic line gap for this font Remember that
95. n two glyphs to make them fit more comfortably Sometimes you want the bearings to be different in special situations When you want to change the distance between two characters you could use kerning pairs For example the A and the V could be closer AV together than TV Not all Operating Systems and applications support kerning If they don t support kerning they simply ignore the kerning pairs Many sophisticated word processors and most DTP applications have kerning support You can use the Preview toolbar to test the kerning pairs You can also install the font and use an application that supports kerning Tip Although the Test Font window doesn t support kerning it does temporarily install the 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 56 FontCreator Help font The name of the temporarily installed font looks like FC012345 So while the Test Font window is open you will be able to use the font in any application e g Word However when you open the Test Font window again you ll have to change the font s name in the application because the temporary font name always changes In MS Word select Font from the Format menu and select the Character Spacing tab There you can turn on kerning in MS Word by checking the kerning for fonts field Note Kerning in Symbol fonts won t be used in Microsoft Word Select Kerning from the Format menu to open the Kerning window Kerning 379 kerning p
96. nccccnnnnnnonnnnncccnnnnnnccnnnnrc rr 106 Character Map ocn odbteadendti anaana Ee Eaa Daros Terai de Aea a Eea airaa iieii 106 international Keyboard sia 107 Testyour FONTS iicccnisccssssicsssediaissiecscsecscsnerseasesscuteaiwavsandsududsacssenusausupiabiedeesinsiudonasenbenavasbeabiavebsesuuaisausendeeinadueadcuncaus 108 Installing Fonts wicccccscisceseeetccesecvascusceacsncsnessccteabsecsarsnntndsndsscuassedersatucsuascsntevsadnaccachstersabispiciendoaisadseioasancsndancrocuneeds 108 Toolbars OVEIVIeW aia 111 A ancpeccctechedectuaand cqeecwaes sta snacucnsaucener Aa E aa aa 111 Validation e aaa danna 112 LL Ann a An 114 Background Image oi 114 COMPAriSOM iii ice 115 Samples Gu cece ca edema acest ew eee e EEEN 116 Customizing Font Creator 97911011 T D E nn tesetuteaccesatessataueseete 119 AN 119 Sample 2 2 120 O A A A 121 AS o Ag AEE EE A AA E A E E E E EA 122 Glyph 124 Edit 125 Naming 126 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved IV FontCreator Help EL SR AEEA EE E EER 127 AOVANCOO Eaa EE EAE EE A A AAE EEEE E AAE AA aaa 128 2 Gnd OOOO Sa aia aaa aaaea 129 SEE E a PP E E E E A A A E 130 Ann E decd E E E 130 LeU cI nT E aaa A EEEN AN ED EEEE N 131 4 Keyboard Shortcut ccccccccccseeceeneeeeeseeesnaeeeneeeeesaeeesneeeeneeeeeaessasaaesnseaesscagsaseaeenseeeeseaeseseeeeenenaes 132 Index 135 O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Font
97. ne Data Glyph Metrics Glyph Postscript civoh Mappings Mappings Keep same mappings Overrule same mappings Add mappings Glyph Outline Data will always be included 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 25 Glyph Metrics are the Left Side Bearing and Advance Width of each glyph Glyph Postscript will paste all postscript names Glyph Mappings will paste the mappings Keep same mappings adds new mappings to the glyphs Mappings that already exist will be reassigned to the pasted glyph s when the Overrule same mapping option is selected You can also choose to add mappings Add mappings adds all mappings When mappings are already available they will be reassigned to the pasted glyph s 4 3 7 Adding a New Character the EURO Sign Sometimes a font is missing one or more characters Here is explained how to add the EURO sign to an existing font There are two ways to add a character to a font The easiest and recommend way is explained first 1a Add a character at the end of the glyph list recommended Select Characters from the Insert menu Enter EURO SIGN into the Find Part of Character Name and press the Find Next button Now select the Add button and press the OK button Note Insert Characters is not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator 1b Add a glyph at the end of the glyph list Select Glyphs from the Insert menu and insert
98. ng will be issued when sorting glyphs Sorting glyphs can take up to several minutes and is not undoable If this is not checked no warning will be given Warn before activating the fix feature in the Font Validation Wizard This indicates and determines if a warning will be issued when the fix feature is checked during the Font Validation Wizard This operation can take up to several minutes and is not undoable If this is not checked no warning will be given Warn before activating a remove feature from the Options gt Font page This indicates and determines if a warning will be issued when a remove feature is checked on the Font page If this is not checked no warning will be given Warn before executing Glyph Transformer script This indicates and determines if a warning will be issued when the Transform wizard is finalized If this is not checked no warning will be given 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Customizing Font Creator 129 Warn before adding characters This indicates and determines if a warning will be issued when the Insert Characters feature is started If this is not checked no warning will be given 6 2 Grid Options You can adjust the way the grid in the Glyph Edit window is drawn in the Grid Options window select Grid Options from the Tools menu Grid Options Show Grid Minimum distance between grid points in units mal Between grid points in units 10
99. nhinted glyph bounding box of the glyph encoded at U 0078 LATIN SMALL LETTER X If no glyph is encoded in this position the field should be set to 0 This metric if specified can be used in font substitution the xHeight value of one font can 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 82 FontCreator Help be scaled to approximate the apparent size of another CapHeight This metric specifies the distance between the baseline and the approximate height of uppercase letters measured in FUnits This value would normally be specified by a type designer but in situations where that is not possible for example when a legacy font is being converted the value may be set equal to the top of the unscaled and unhinted glyph bounding box of the glyph encoded at U 0048 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H If no glyph is encoded in this position the field should be set to 0 This metric if specified can be used in systems that specify type size by capital height measured in millimeters It can also be used as an alignment metric the top of a drop capital for instance can be aligned to the sCapHeight metric of the first line of text MaxContext The maximum length of a target glyph context for any feature in this font For example a font which has only a pair kerning feature should set this field to 2 If the font also has a ligature feature in which the glyph sequence f f i is substituted by the ligature ffi then
100. note that for Restricted License embedding to take effect it must be the only level of embedding selected as noted in the previous paragraph Preview amp Print embedding Fonts with this flag set indicate that they may be embedded within documents but must only be installed temporarily on the remote system Any document which includes a Preview amp Print embedded font must be opened read only the application must not allow the user to edit the document it can only be viewed and or printed Editable embedding Fonts with this flag set indicate that they may be embedded in documents but must only be installed temporarily on the remote system In contrast to Preview amp Print fonts documents containing Editable fonts may be opened read write editing is permitted and changes may be saved No subsetting When this flag is set the font may not be subsetted prior to embedding Bitmap embedding only When this flag is set only bitmaps contained in the font may be embedded No outline data may be embedded Classification The Classification page is used to alter the PANOSE and font family fields On the Format menu click Settings and then click the Classification tab 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 75 Font Settings Header General Classification Metrics Ranges Post PANOSE Value 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Family Kind 2 Latin Text
101. ns as follows Italic Font contains Italic characters otherwise they are upright Underscore Characters are underscored Negative Characters have their foreground and background reversed Outlined Outline hollow characters otherwise they are solid Strikeout Characters are overstruck Bold Characters are emboldened Regular Characters are in the standard weight style for the font Comments These fields contain information on the original design of the font Italic and Bold can be used to determine if the font was designed with these features or whether some type of machine simulation was performed on the font to achieve this appearance Underscore Negative Outlined and Strikeout are rarely used fields that indicate the font is primarily a decorative or special purpose font If the Regular flag is set then the Italic and Bold flags must be clear else the behavior is undefined The settings of the Italic and Bold flags must be reflected in the Mac Style flags While the Regular flag set implies that both Mac Style flags Italic and Bold are clear along with the Font Design flags Italic and Bold the reverse is not true The Mac Style flags and the Font Design flags Italic and Bold may be clear and that does not give any indication of whether or not the Regular flag is clear e g Arial Light would have all flags cleared it is not the regular version of Arial O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing
102. nsformation of characters Font validation Automatic Kerning To Register The quickest and most convenient way to register is online via credit card Other supported payment methods like checks and cash are also supported For more details take a look at our registration page http www high logic com register html 7 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved FontCreator Help 2 1 Quick Start Tutorial Your First Font a Brief Tutorial The quickest way to introduce yourself to FontCreator is to make a font To make it personal we will describe how to make a font of your own handwriting On the File menu click New to create a new font New TrueType Font Font family name My Handwriting Character set Unicode characters Symbol signs signatures Font style Regular Italic Bold Bold Italic It is important to give our handwriting font a personal name otherwise we will not be able to identify and install the font properly The font name is not the same as the filename for example timesbd ttf has Time New Roman Bold as the font name where Times New Roman is the font family name and Bold is the font style To give our font a name we type My Handwriting in the Font family name field and press the OK button 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Quick Start Tutorial 7 7 FontCreator 5 5 Professional E
103. nsions v Spacing Modifier Letters v Combining Diacritical Marks v Greek and Coptic Reserved for Unicode SubRanges v Cyrillic and Cyrillic Supplementary Armenian v Hebrew Reserved for Unicode SubRanges vl Arabic Reserved for Unicode SubRanges Devanagari Bengali Gurmukhi Gujarati Oriya Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam Thai Mj 4 5 9 5 3 Code Page Character Range This field is used to specify the code pages encompassed by the font file in the mappings for the Microsoft platform If the Microsoft platform is Microsoft Symbol then the Symbol Character Set should be selected If a code page is selected then the code page is considered functional The determination of functional is left up to the font designer although character set selection should attempt to be functional by code pages if at all possible 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved FontCreator Help Code Page Range Settings Latin 1 1252 Latin 2 Eastern Europe 1250 Cyrillic 1251 Greek 1253 Turkish 1254 Hebrew 1255 Arabic 1256 Windows Baltic 1257 Vietnamese 1258 Reserved for Alternate ANSI Reserved for Alternate ANSI Reserved for Alternate ANSI Reserved for Alternate ANSI Reserved for Alternate ANSI Reserved for Alternate ANSI Reserved for Alternate ANSI Thai 874 JIS Japan 932 Chinese Simplified chars PRC and Singapore 936 Korean Wansung 949 C Chinese Traditiona
104. nt printer font may not produce the identical result as requesting a 12 point printer font Force ppem to integer values for all internal scaler math When this field is selected integer scaling will be used instead of fractional scaling Fractional ppem sizes may be used if this field is not selected Instructions may alter advance width When this field is set it allows the font to alter device dependent widths the advance widths might not scale linearly Apple specific field 5 This field should be set in fonts that are intended to be laid out vertically and in which the glyphs have been drawn such that an x coordinate of 0 corresponds to the desired vertical baseline Reserved Reserved do not check this field Apple specific field 7 This field should be set if the font requires layout for correct linguistic rendering e g Arabic fonts Apple specific field 8 This field should be set for a GX font which has one or more metamorphosis effects designated as happening by default Apple specific field 9 This field should be set if the font contains any strong right to left glyphs Apple specific field 10 This field should be set if the font contains Indic style rearrangement effects Font data is lossless Set this flag when font data is lossless as a result of having been compressed and decompressed with the Agfa MicroType Express engine Font converted Set this flag when the font is converted produce compa
105. old down the Shift key before moving the guideline Rotating a horizontal or vertical guideline will change the guideline into a diagonal guideline Select one or more contours or one ore more composite glyph members and right click and then select Add Bounding Guidelines to add two horizontal and two vertical guidelines that correspond to the selection bounding box To copy a guideline to a new position hold down the Ctrl key as you drag the guideline Tip Select two points in a Glyph Edit window and press the G key on your keyboard to add a guideline that goes through the selected points Note User defined guidelines will be used for all fonts 6 3 2 Guideline Use the Guideline window to create or modify guidelines Guideline Line Type O Horizontal Diagonal angle vertical Diagonal points Line Position Point 1x 1825 Pontiy 219 Point 2 x Point 2 y Angle 157 870 Line Type Choose between horizontal and vertical lines and two diagonal line types 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 132 FontCreator Help Line Position window 6 4 Keyboard Shortcuts Both horizontal and vertical lines only need one value A diagonal line needs either one point with an angle or two points Tip The Guideline window is activated when you double click a guideline in the Glyph Edit You can quickly accomplish tasks you perform frequently by using shortcut keys one
106. ollows 31 ASCII supports several standard interpretations 30 Latin 1 extensions 29 Latin 2 extensions O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 64 FontCreator Help 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 Latin 5 extensions Desktop Publishing Extensions Accent Extensions East and West Europe PCL Extensions Macintosh Extensions PostScript Extensions Code Page Extensions The character complement field also indicates the index mechanism used with an unbound font Bit O must always be cleared when the font elements are provided in Unicode order FileName This 6 byte field is composed of 3 parts The first 3 bytes are an industry standard typeface family string The fourth byte is a treatment character such as R B The last two characters are either zeroes for an unbound font or a two character mnemonic for a symbol set if symbol set found Examples TNRROO Times New text weight upright TNRIOO Times New Italic TNRBOO Times New Bold TNRJOO Times New Bold Italic COURO0O0 Courier COUIOO Courier Italic COUBOO Courier Bold COUJOO Courier Bold Italic Treatment Flags R TQ XAXAMmMUGC DW Text normal book etc Italic oblique slanted etc Bold Bold Italic Bold Oblique Demibold Demibold Italic Demibold Oblique Black Black Italic Black Oblique Light O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 65
107. one glyph after the last glyph Give the glyph a proper Postscript Name Right click on the glyph and select Properties to open the Properties window On the General page set the Postscript Name field to Euro Assign mappings to the glyph In the same Properties window on the Mappings page select the Microsoft Unicode BMP only or Microsoft Symbol Platform and click the Select button In the top pane select from the blocks list 20A0 or 8352 20CF or 8399 Currency Symbols and the bottom pane changes but do not press the OK button In the bottom pane select from the characters list 20AC or 8364 lt empty gt EURO SIGN Note this field should be empty otherwise the character is already mapped to another glyph After pressing two OK buttons the glyph outline can be edited 2 Edit the glyph Double click the Euro glyph to open the Glyph Edit window There are several ways to O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 26 FontCreator Help 4 3 8 4 3 9 add contours to the glyph e Import an image Tools gt Import Image e Add new contours right click and select New Contour e Paste contours from other glyphs e Drag outlines from the Samples toolbar 3 Adjust the right and left bearings Around the glyph there are four lines that represent the Bearings These are shown by default but you can hide them through the Show Bearings button on the Drawing toolbar The left
108. ontCreator 5 5 New features in this version of FontCreator include Changed product name from Font Creator to FontCreator Enhanced user interface with additional buttons for frequent commands More shortcuts and commands to context menus Support for Unicode input 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Getting Started 3 New drawing tools rectangle and ellipse Improved glyph validation Improved PANOSE settings Added a font preview to the open installed fonts dialog Improved the font test dialog Added align and distribute operations Improved transform wizard added Insert Characters and Complete Composites Improved Select Incomplete glyphs At least Windows 2000 or Windows XP is required 1 3 Technical Support This help is designed to be used on screen Many troubleshooting questions can be answered by this help If you haven t already done so please read the next section about the user interface Printed User Manual If you prefer reading printed manuals a PDF version of the entire help file is available through the main menu Help gt User Manual Online User Manual The user manual is also available online http Awww high logic com maintype manual index html 7 Forum The forum is available to you for support and information about managing and designing fonts This forum has become a place where all users of FontCreator can share their knowledge Membership of the
109. or more keys you press on the keyboard to complete a task General Shortcuts Press Ctrl 0 9 Ctrl Shift 0 9 Ctrl Tab or Ctrl F6 Ctrl Shift Tab F1 F3 F4 Ctrl F4 FS F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 Shift F10 F11 Ctrl F11 F12 Ctrl F12 To Go to Bookmark Set Bookmark Next Window Previous Window Help Find Next postscript Name Show Hide Statusbar Close Window Test Font Show Hide Transform Toolbar Show Hide Glyph Validation Toolbar Show Hide Preview Toolbar Show Hide Image Toolbar Activates the Main Menu Displays the shortcut menu for a selected item Show Hide Comparison Toolbar Launch Windows Font Folder Show Hide Samples Toolbar Launch Windows Character Map 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Customizing Font Creator 133 Delete Ctrl A Ctrl C Ctrl E Ctrl F Ctrl 1 Ctrl N Ctrl O Ctrl P Ctrl R Ctrl S Ctrl T Ctrl U Ctrl V Ctrl X Ctrl Y Ctrl Z Delete selection Select All Copy Paste Special Displays the Find dialog box Open Installed Fonts New Font Open Font Print Repeat Save Invert Selection Clear Selection Paste Cut Redo Undo Keys for working in the Glyph Overview window Press Alt Enter Enter Backspace P Plus Sign Minus Sign To To glyph s properties Open Glyph Edit window Clear selected glyphs The first 256 characters mapped to the selected glyphs will be placed into the preview toolbar Increase the ce
110. ork correctly in Windows you should have a Microsoft Unicode BMP only or a Microsoft Symbol platform Because some word processors and DTP applications depend on the Macintosh Roman platform it is also included in almost all fonts Note that the ISO platform has been deprecated as of OpenType Specification v1 3 Press the Add button to add a platform through the Add Platform window Press the Delete button to remove the selected platform The Change button can be used to change between Microsoft Unicode BMP only and Microsoft Symbol platforms But this can result in losing mappings Add Platform In the Add Platform window select the appropriate platform and Specific Platform Encoding and press the OK button 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 45 Add Platform Platform Specific Platform Encoding Unicode En Japanese 150 Chinese Traditional Microsoft Korean Custom Arabic Hebrew Greek Russian RSymbol Add Character to Glyph Index Mappings Copy from Microsoft Unicode BMP only O Generate from PostScript names Don t add mappings Use Add Character to Glyph Index Mappings to inherit mappings from another platform 4 5 2 Naming 4 5 2 1 Overview Each platform has its own language items For each language the Naming fields can be edited in the Naming window To keep this table short the font manufacturer may wish to make a limited
111. ow allows you to edit the PCL5 data The PCL5 data is not required so it s good practice not to include it Including PCL5 data for OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines is strongly discouraged Note Extra information on many of these fields can be found in the HP PCL 5 Printer Language Technical Reference Manual available from Hewlett Packard Boise Printer O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 61 Division Include PCLS Data Font Number Font Format Native v Unique Number 1180032 vendor code 77 M Monotype Typography Ltd Style Structure Solid normal black Width normal Posture obligue italic TypeFamily SymbolSet Vendor code Monotype Typography Ltd v Number Field 0 Typeface Family code 218 2 ID Field Pitch 569 CapHeight 1466 WidthType 0 xHeight 1062 StrokeWeight 3 SerifStyle 64 TypeFace mMm Arial Bd It FileName ARLIO0 CharacterComplement FFFFFFFFOO3FFFFE Font Format Indicates native versus converted format Only font vendors should create fonts with this field set to Native Vendor Code Is assigned by Hewlett Packard Boise Printer Division to major font vendors Vendor codes A Adobe Systems B Bitstream Inc C Agfa Corporation H Bigelow amp Holmes L Linotype Company M Monotype Typography Ltd 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved
112. ow map a glyph to a character this way you can use the glyph in many sophisticated word processors and most DTP applications e In the Glyph Overview window select the glyph you want to map to a specific character e Right click on it and select Properties e Go to the Mappings tab to open the Mappings page 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 55 e Select a Microsoft platform e g Microsoft Unicode BMP only or Microsoft Symbol e Press the Select button e In the top pane select a block to which the glyph belongs but do not press the OK button at this stage e Now in the bottom pane select a character that matches your glyph You should only select a character that hasn t already got a glyph assigned e For example select the Latin Extended B block Select Basic Latin and select LATIN SMALL LETTER A when you want to assign glyph a and press the OK button 4 5 3 3 Glyph Already Mapped For each platform a character to glyph index mapping can only exist once so if you try to add a mapping that already exists this Glyph Already Mapped window will ask you what to do Glyph Already Mapped Character already mapped to glyph 004F Do you want to overrule this mapping Overruling a previous mapping will remove this previous mapping and the current mapping will be added 4 5 4 Kerning 4 5 4 1 Overview Kerning is the reducing increasing of the space allocated betwee
113. per case lower case or mixed with a space following the number The string must contain a version number of the following form one or more digits followed by a period followed by one or more digits The first such match in the string can be used by installation software to compare font versions Note that some older installers may require the string to start with Version followed by a version number as above Postscript name Postscript name for the font This field should be restricted to the printable ASCII subset codes 33 through 126 except for the 10 characters I Y Y Y lt gt 1 So it should not contain any spaces This field should be no longer than 63 characters Trademark This is used to save any trademark notice information for this font Such information should be based on legal advice This is distinctly separate from the copyright Note to enter non ASCII characters in a Microsoft platform naming field enable Unicode Support or use lt CODE gt where lt CODE gt is a 4 digit hexadecimal number that indicates the Unicode value To enter non ASCII characters in a Macintosh platform naming field use lt CODE gt where lt CODE gt is a character code in the Standard Roman Character Set To enter a backslash type it twice Add Language and Locale Some platforms allow naming fields for different languages Add Language and Locale Chinese Singapore Chinese Taiwan Classic Lithu
114. r for OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines in the Windows operating system you can add remove and change the order of these tables If you want to remove all hinting related data press the Remove Hinting button Font Tables Supported Unsupported Description Digital signature Glyph definition data Glyph substitution data Justification data Linear threshold data Vertical device metrics Horizontal device metrics If you want to delete an unsupported table select the table on the Unsupported page and press the Delete button 4 5 9 Settings 4 5 9 1 Header 4 5 9 1 1 Overview Global and horizontal layout information about the font is found on the Header page Settings window On the Format menu click Settings and then click the Header tab 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 67 Font Settings Header General Classification Metrics Ranges Post Font revision Font direction hint O Fully mixed directional glyphs Only strong left to right Font Header Flags Strong left to right contains neutrals o eae Only strong right to left Strong right to left contains neutrals Version Layout Units per em v Smallest read size Date and Time Created Tuesday May 13 2003 12 00 00 PM Modified Monday May 22 2006 Y 12 00 00 PM Version Set by the font manufacturer Note For historical re
115. rt of the name When searching for mappings you first select the platform and then the mapping you are looking for to proceed click Find 4 2 5 Bookmarks You can set bookmarks in the Glyph Overview window and Glyph Edit window so that you can go directly to a particular glyph To set a bookmark in the Glyph Overview window select a glyph right click it select Toggle Bookmarks and then set clear a bookmark These shortcuts can also be used Ctrl Shift O through Ctrl Shift 9 To jump to a bookmarked glyph in the Glyph Overview window right click and select Goto Bookmarks and then select a bookmark or use one of these shortcuts to move to a bookmarked glyph 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 20 FontCreator Help 4 3 4 3 1 Ctrl O through Ctrl 9 Editing Fonts Using the Glyph Overview In the Glyph Overview window all cells have a caption and a part that shows the glyph To distinguish the types of glyphs the captions have different colors Grey empty glyph Pink empty glyph used by composite glyph s Green simple glyph consists of contours Red simple glyph that is also used by a composite glyph Blue composite glyph consists of other glyphs Purple composite glyph used by other composite glyph s L3 COUR TTF IEA A special border around the colored dot see the red dot at the x indicates that the glyph itself is not directly available there is no mapping in
116. ry usage could be calculated by rendering characters at different point sizes and comparing memory use 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 4 5 10 Font Properties Information about the font is found on the Font Properties page from the File menu Font Information CAWINDOWS Fonts TIMES TTF Name NumGlyphs MaxPoints MaxContours MaxCompositePoints MaxCompositeContours MaxZones MaxTwilightPoints MaxStorage MaxFunctionDefs MaxInstructionDefs MaxStackElements MaxSizeOf Instructions MaxComponentElements 3 MaxComponentDepth 2 x Minimum For all glyph bounding boxes 1164 Y Minimum For all glyph bounding boxes 628 x Maximum for all glyph bounding boxes 4096 Y Maximum for all glyph bounding boxes 2062 advance wWidthMax 4096 MinLeftSideBearing 1164 MinRightSideBearing 474 xMaxExtent 4096 FirstCharIndex 32 LastCharIndex 65532 These fields can t be modified directly as they are calculated and depend on other font related data NumGlyphs The number of glyphs in the font maxPoints Maximum points in a non composite glyph maxContours Maximum contours in a non composite glyph maxCompositePoints Maximum points in a composite glyph 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 88 FontCreator Help maxCompositeContours Maximum contours in a composite glyph maxZones 1 if instructions do not us
117. s Off curve extreme coordinates This test checks whether all off curve points are inside the global bounding box and 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 105 optionally their local bounding box You can customize this feature through the Options window The left image shows two red rectangles The large one is the global bounding box and the smaller rectangle is a local bounding box between an on off on curve sequence Both off curve points lie outside their bounding box With local detection enabled the right image shows the result of clicking the Add on curve extremes button on the Validation toolbar Redundant points This problem will be reported when validating simple glyphs with contours with redundant points Duplicate knots This problem will be reported when validating simple glyphs with contours with two adjacent points that have the same coordinates but one is on curve and the other is off curve Intersecting coordinates This problem will be reported when validating composite glyphs with intersecting glyph members and when validating simple glyphs with self intersecting contours Avoid crossing contours whenever possible Note Older PostScript Level 2 drivers do not support overlapping contours Contours with unknown direction This problem will be reported when validating simple glyphs with contours that have an unknown direction Contours with incorre
118. sed to open and save the text 4 5 3 Mappings 4 5 3 1 Character to Glyph Index Mappings A character encoding is a table in a font which maps character codes to the relevant shape glyph in a font Not all operating systems use the same character encoding with Macintosh and Windows using different systems Select the appropriate platform and glyph and then modify the Character to Glyph Index Mappings Each platform uses an encoding format that can be changed Normally this format should not be changed Don t use Unicode ranges 0xD800 OxDBFF High Surrogate Area and 0xDCO0O OxDFFF Low Surrogate Area to assign characters as these areas are reserved for use with UTF 16 Encoding Format All Microsoft platforms Unicode and Symbol must provide at least a Segment mapping to delta values encoding format If the font is meant to support UCS 4 surrogate characters it will additionally need a Microsoft Unicode full repertoire platform with Segmented coverage encoding format Use the Platform Manager to add new platforms To enable backward compatibility needs the contents of the Segmented coverage mappings need to be a superset of the contents of the Segment mapping to delta values mappings so the first 64k codepoint to glyph mappings must be identical To meet this requirement press the Include Microsoft Unicode BMP only button 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 52 FontCreator Help
119. sion e Set Italic Angle to a negative value e g 16 33 on the Format menu click Settings and then click on the Post tab e Set Caret Slope values through Calculate Rise and Run on the Format menu click Settings and then click on the General tab 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 27 4 3 10 Font Embedding 4 3 11 Select Settings from the Format menu and select the General tab page Here you can alter the Font Embedding Licensing Rights Note Embedding symbol fonts may not be possible in Word Note In order to embed a font the Postscript Names in Post command Format menu must be included for some applications like Adobe Acrobat Unicode versus Symbol When a font has a Microsoft Unicode BMP only platform the font is a normal font When a font has a Microsoft Symbol platform the font is a Symbol font Symbol character sets have a special meaning all of the characters in the Unicode range OxF000 OxFOFF inclusive will be used to enumerate the symbol character set All glyphs in this range are mapped to the range 0x0000 Ox00FF Symbol fonts do not form words so line breaks can occur after any character code A spell checker should not check symbol font formatted material Note only the first 224 characters of symbol fonts will be accessible a space and up to 223 printing characters From Symbol to Unicode In order to change a symbol font into a normal
120. so the License Agreement and the License Agreement Link fields from the Advanced Naming window might have important information 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 16 FontCreator Help 4 Editing Fonts 4 1 Opening Creating and Saving Fonts 4 1 1 Open a Font There are several ways to open a font file Open fonts already installed on your system To open an installed font file select Open from the File menu and choose Installed Font option Open Installed Fonts 252 Font Family Name Font Style File Name Size 10 Arial Narrow Italic ARIALNI TTF 139KB Arial Narrow Bold ARIALNB TTF 136KB m Ol Arial Narrow Bold Italic ARIALNBI TTF 136 KB O Arial Rounded MT Bold Regular ARLADBD TTF 45 KB Arial Unicode MS Regular ARIALUNI TTF 23 566 KB Baskerville Old Face Regular BASKYILL TTF 54 KB Bauhaus 93 Regular BAUHS93 TTF 46 KB Bell MT Regular BELL TTF 83KB Bell MT Italic BELLI TTF 81 KB Arial Rounded MT Bold C WINDOWS Fonts 4RLRDBD TTF Open any font that is available From the File menu select Open and choose Font File option to open a font through Windows default open dialog box Drag and drop a font file Another way to open a font is to drag a font file from Windows Explorer and drop it into FontCreator 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 17 Explorer Context Menu You can also open a
121. st command from the Format menu you can edit the postscript names for all glyphs Normally the postscript names are related to the mappings The postscript name is not always included especially in large fonts the postscript names are left out O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 58 FontCreator Help Windows does not actually require Postscript name information for the glyphs However it is recommend to include the postscript names because some word processors and DTP applications depend on this information Also the printing behavior of fonts that have not included the postscript names is unspecified on PostScript printers except that it should not result in a fatal or unrecoverable error Some drivers may print nothing other drivers may attempt to print using a default naming scheme Postscript Names Include Postscript Names bracketleFt backslash bracketright asciicircum underscore v Postscript name backslash To alter a postscript name select the appropriate glyph and use the text box to enter the postscript name 4 5 6 Grayscale 4 5 6 1 Overview The Grayscale window contains information which describes the preferred rasterization techniques for the typeface when it is rendered on grayscale capable devices It also has some use for monochrome devices which may use the table to turn off hinting at very large or small sizes to improve performance
122. t look better compared to the straight apostrophe and straight quote or inches character Microsoft Word also automatically changes 3 periods to an ellipsis If your font does not support these characters you can either turn the Smart Quotes and Ellipsis features off in the application In Microsoft Word it s under Tools gt AutoCorrect or make sure these glyphs and their mappings are available in the font 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 31 PostScript Name quoteleft quoteright quotedblleft Descriptive Name left single quotation mark right single quotation mark left double quotation mark quotedblright right double quotation mark ellipsis horizontal ellipsis Other suggested glyphs PostScript NameDescriptive Name nbspace currency section logicalnot degree paragraph periodcentered endash emdash bullet euro bulletoperator no break space currency sign section sign not sign degree sign paragraph sign middle dot en dash em dash bullet euro currency symbol bullet operator Sample nbspace is usually mapped to the space glyph Sample i 2018 2019 E 201C 201D 2026 Unicode MacChar 00A0 CA 00A4 00A7 A4 00AC C2 00B0 A1 00B6 A6 00B7 2013 D0 2014 D1 2022 A5 20AC DB 2219 E1 bulletoperator is usually mapped to the periodcentered glyph 4 3 14 Sorting Glyphs Unicode
123. the glyph and its surrounding space Tip You could also adjust the Left Side Bearing and Advance Width in the Glyph Edit window by changing the vertical bearings O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 22 FontCreator Help 4 3 3 Used By The Used By window available by right clicking a glyph in the Glyph Overview window or Glyph Edit window and selecting the Used By menu item is used to display an overview of all glyphs that use the selected glyph This menu item is available if the glyph s Postscript name is colored pink red or purple To jump directly to one of the displayed glyphs double click it in the window or select it and click the OK button eacute egrave ecircumflex edieresis eogonek ecaron emacron ebreve O 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 23 4 3 4 Insert Characters Select Characters in the Insert menu to add glyphs with their character mappings and postscript names to the font This option is available only when the Glyph Overview window is active Insert Characters Basic Multilingual Plane Currency Symbols 2040 20CF 48 Characters 2070 o 4 5 6 7 8 3 2080 2090 2040 2060 2000 2000 20E0 Y 20F0 2100 A CE CE bA E amp E DBD Figy AHH Font Find Part of Character Name Arial Unicode MS v Go to Unicode Block Go to Code Point Currency Symbols v M Sorted Sel
124. through its Font family name and the Font style In order to 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 18 FontCreator Help 4 2 4 2 1 4 2 2 create a full font family you will need to create four fonts each with a different Font style but with the same Font family name Note On the Naming tab accessed by Tools gt Options there are default naming values that will be added to the new font See also View and Modify Naming Fields Default Naming Values Save a Font To save an active font select Save in the File menu If you want to save the active font with a different name or in a different location select Save as in the File menu choose a name and location and click Save Warning lt is not recommended to save your font in Windows fonts folder Warning Files locked by Windows can t be saved This happens when the Operating System keeps the font in memory You could try to uninstall delete the font through Windows fonts folder Close a Font To close the current font file select Close in the File menu To close all active fonts at once select Close All in the File menu Editing Options Undo Command The Undo command from the Edit menu reverses the last action made to the active font Using Undo returns the font to its state prior to the most recent operation The number of operations you can undo depends on the settings from the Tools menu in the Edit tab of the Options
125. tible metrics 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 70 FontCreator Help 4 5 9 2 Font optimised for ClearType Set this field if the font is optimised for ClearType Reserved Reserved do not check this field Reserved Reserved do not check this field Note The Apple specific fields should be set according to Apple s specification However they are not implemented in OpenType General 4 5 9 2 1 Overview This page consists of a set of metrics On the Format menu click Settings and then click the General tab Font Settings Header General Classification Metrics Ranges Post Recommended sizes Classification Subscript horizontal 11434 Weight Normal Regular Width Medium normal Subscript vertical 1331 Subscript x offset 0 Font embedding Licensing rights A Cursor Subscript y offset 283 Superscript horizontal 1434 Superscript vertical 1331 Superscript x offset 0 Superscript y offset Caret Slope Rise E Caret Slope Run o Calculate Rise and Run A v OIE lt gt lt gt lt gt lt 8 lt gt mo J J a o N Strikeout size 4 gt 4 gt an Qu ma Strikeout position Caret Offset 0 Font Vendor Identification Name High Logic Subscript horizontal The recommended horizontal size in font design units for subscripts for this font 1997 2006 by High Log
126. ties 21 Simple 32 Type 20 32 Glyph Bounding Box 121 Glyph Member 41 Glyph Overview 20 Glyph Transformer 89 Grayscale 58 Grayscale Rendering 59 Grid Options 129 Gridfitting 59 Guideline 131 Guidelines Options 130 H Handwriting 6 Hexadecimal 119 Hinting 65 Image to Outline 99 Import Image 99 Incomplete Glyphs 32 Install 10 Installing Fonts 108 International 107 Intersection 39 112 ls Join Contours 39 K Kerning 55 Automatic 95 Import 93 Kerning Pair 57 Keyboard 107 Keystroke 106 Knife 39 sel Language 107 Layout 107 Left Side Bearing 21 33 91 License Agreement 49 Licensing Rights 73 Limits Undo and Redo 125 Mailing List 2 Manual PDF 3 Mapping 51 55 Menu 111 Metrics 42 Automatic 90 Monospaced 28 N Name Language 48 Naming 45 126 Naming Field 50 New Features 2 0 Open Font 16 OpenType 13 Optimize 121 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Index 137 P Panose 74 Paste Glyph 24 PCL5 60 Platform 44 Platform Manager 44 Point 38 Mode 34 Postscript 85 Names 57 Postscript Name 21 Preview 114 Print Font 102 Glyph 103 Private Use Area 51 Proportional 28 Quotation Mark 28 Quotes 28 R Redo 18 Redundant 112 Register 4 Repeat 19 Right Side Bearing 33 Rotate 36 S Sample 120 Samples 116 Save Font 18 Scale 66 Scanner 9 Search 19 Select 32 Shortcut 132 Simple Glyph 34 Sort 31 Split Contours 3
127. tter international and high end typographic fonts Use VOLT Visual OpenType Layout Tool from Microsoft to upgrade your TrueType fonts to OpenType VOLT is used to add OpenType features to your existing TrueType fonts More information about VOLT http www microsoft com typography developers volt default htm 1 3 3 Font Copyright Unless you know otherwise you should assume all fonts to be copyrighted works that are someone s property and treat them as you would any other software Fonts are software products in their own right and are protected by international copyright law as well as individual license agreements Even redistributing so called freeware or public domain fonts is problematic If you have created a font yourself without using anything from other fonts it is your property 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 14 FontCreator Help The use of any commercial font is governed by the terms of its manufacturer s End User License Agreement EULA Several major font vendors specifically allow altering a font as long as the altered font is only used on machines for which you have licensed the original font If you have questions about what can or can t be done with a font you should contact that font s manufacturer The Copyright Notice field in the Naming window may direct you to the copyright holder but be aware that this field may be blank or may have been altered Al
128. unique serial number is embedded in the URL it can be used to register the font Font Designer Name of the designer of the typeface Font Designer Link URL of typeface designer with protocol e g http ftp 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 50 FontCreator Help 4 5 2 4 License Agreement Description of how the font may be legally used or different example scenarios for licensed use This field should be written in plain language not legalese License Agreement Link URL where additional licensing information can be found Description Description of the typeface Can contain revision information usage recommendations history features etc Compatible Full Macintosh only On the Macintosh the menu name is constructed using the FOND resource This usually matches the Full Name If you want the name of the font to appear differently than the Full Name you can insert the Compatible Full Name in this field Preferred Family Windows only In Windows the Family name is displayed in the font menu the Subfamily name is presented as the Style name For historical reasons font families have contained a maximum of four styles but font designers may group more than four fonts to a single family The Preferred Family and Preferred Subfamily IDs allow font designers to include the preferred family subfamily groupings These IDs are only present if they are different from
129. with over a thousand glyphs that are defined in this file To get the most out of this feature follow these guidelines The selected glyph s must be mapped with a Microsoft Unicode mapping e If the selected glyph s are empty or simple they will be replaced wherever composites are defined Do not include simple glyphs in your selection if you don t wish to replace them with composites e lf the selected glyph s are already composites they will be replaced only if the composite glyph members are different not if their positions or scale factors are different e All composite members must be present in the font If any composite members are mapped but still empty the composite glyph will be completed though obviously missing the contours that have not been defined yet Tip Read the documentation found in the Composites folder for more information about the content of the file CompositeData xml and an explanation about how to modify and add glyphs Note Complete Composites is not available in the Home Edition of FontCreator 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 44 FontCreator Help 4 5 4 5 1 4 5 1 1 4 5 1 2 Format Platform Manager Overview With the platform manager you can add or delete specific platforms Platform Manager Platform Macintosh Roman Microsoft Unicode BMP onl Unicode 2 0 and onwards semantics BMP i Cancel If you want your fonts to w
130. with the recognition of standard characters and therefore should not line up with crossbars in the font For a Roman font with a 2048 em square 460 is suggested Font Vendor Identification This is not the royalty owner of the original artwork This is the company responsible for the marketing and distribution of the typeface that is being classified It is reasonable to assume that there will be 6 vendors of ITC Zapf Dingbats for use on desktop platforms in the near future if not already It is also likely that the vendors will have other inherent benefits in their fonts more kern pairs unregularized data hand hinted etc This identifier will allow for the correct vendor s type to be used over another possibly inferior font file This field is not required Microsoft has assigned values for some font suppliers Uppercase vendor ID s are reserved by Microsoft Other suppliers can choose their own mixed case or lowercase ID s or leave 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 72 FontCreator Help the field blank Classification Weight Indicates the visual weight degree of blackness or thickness of strokes of the characters in the font Classification Width Indicates a relative change from the normal aspect ratio width to height ratio as specified by a font designer for the glyphs in a font Note Although every character in a font may have a different numeric aspect ratio e
131. wn the Shift key and clicking a contour already selected will remove that contour from the current selection Points To select a single point click on it To select more than one point hold down the Shift key while clicking on several points or another way is to hold down the left mouse button and drag a rectangle around the points you want to select simultaneously whether a few or all points in the glyph Use the Ctrl A shortcut or select Select All from the Edit menu to select all points Hold down the Shift key and select points you want to add to or remove from the current selection Composite glyphs Composite glyphs are simply a combination of two or more other glyphs usually but not limited to a base character and one or more diacritical marks that are placed above and or below the base character To select a composite member click on it If you want to modify specific member data double click a composite member to open the Composite Glyph Properties window Other parts of the manual have a comprehensive explanation of the three glyph types Bearings In the Glyph Edit window there are four lines normally around the glyph outline that represent the bearings These are shown by default but you can hide them through the Show Bearings button on the Drawing toolbar The left and right side bearings can be changed by dragging them to their desired position You could also adjust the bearings when you right click a glyph in the Gl
132. y calculated To manually calculate the caretSlopeRise and caretSlopeRun you need to measure the 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved Editing Fonts 73 major italic slope of the font or obtain the value from the post table It is common to use the Uppercase Flat height for the caretSlopeRise Once you have the two values you can calculate the caretSlopeRun by using a scientific calculator like the one in Windows First calculate the tangent of the italicAngle in the post table Then multiply that by the caretSlopeRise Uppercase height This will give you the caretSlopeRun Example In my example font the italicAngle in the post table is 10 The Uppercase flat height is 1465 The tangent of 10 is 0 17632 0 17632 multiplied by the caretSlopeRise of 1465 the result is 258 3 A caretSlopeRun of 258 would be correct 4 5 9 2 2 Font Embedding Licensing Rights Embeddable fonts may be stored in a document When a document with embedded fonts is opened on a system that does not have the font installed the remote system the embedded font may be loaded for temporary and in some cases permanent use on that system by an embedding aware application Embedding licensing rights are granted by the vendor of the font Font Embedding Licensing Rights Reserved Restricted License embedding Preview amp Print embedding Editable embedding Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved No subsetting Bit
133. yph Overview window and select Properties Here you can alter the left side bearing and the advance width White space should be evenly distributed between the left and right side bearings of glyphs except when font is specifically designed with ligatures for joining characters in a cursive script font 1997 2006 by High Logic Software all rights reserved 34 FontCreator Help 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 Note Lining numbers i e the digits 0 9 should all have the same advance width The top and bottom bearings are equal to WinAscent and WinDescent the ascender and descender metrics located on the Metrics tab In order to change the values click Settings on the Format menu and then click the Metrics tab Empty Glyphs Empty glyphs don t have outlines but they do have an advance width like the space glyph In a Glyph Edit window you can change an empty glyph into a simple glyph by adding contours You can also change an empty glyph into a composite glyph by adding a Composite Glyph Member Simple Glyphs Introduction In a TrueType font glyph shapes are described by their outlines A glyph outline consists of a series of contours Contours are composed of straight lines and curves Curves are defined by a series of points that describe second order B zier splines The TrueType B zier spline format uses two types of points to define curves those that are on the curve and those that are off the curve Any co

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