Font name in Windows font dialogs
Daniel Migowski
When i look into the Microsoft Word font chooser, I see all fonts
rendered with the glyphs they contain, except "Windings", "MS Outlook"
and some others.
My own barcode font now is rendered with its name shown in the symbols
of my font which makes really hard to distinguish from other barcode
fonts in the drop down list.
How do i make windows to show my font name without using the glyphs from
my font?
With best regards,
Daniel Migowski
Character
This is NOT a 'Windows' function, but is unique to each application
that can list fonts.
In Microsoft Word, go to Tools / Customize / Options Tab
and UN-check the box that says 'List font names in their font'
You'll have to do the same thing for other MS Office products (Excel,
Access, etc). Other applications have different methods.
- Character
Daniel Migowski
Character schrieb:
> Daniel Migowski wrote:
>
>> When i look into the Microsoft Word font chooser, I see all fonts
>> rendered with the glyphs they contain, except "Windings", "MS Outlook"
>> and some others.
>>
>> My own barcode font now is rendered with its name shown in the symbols
>> of my font which makes really hard to distinguish from other barcode
>> fonts in the drop down list.
>>
>> How do i make windows to show my font name without using the glyphs
>> from my font?
>>
>> With best regards,
>> Daniel Migowski
>
> This is NOT a 'Windows' function, but is unique to each application that
> can list fonts.
I suspected this, but I saw other symbol fonts which make windows
believe that it is good idea to show the name of the font in front of
some example symbols. I don't know how to make windows do this for my
own fonts.
> In Microsoft Word, go to Tools / Customize / Options Tab
> and UN-check the box that says 'List font names in their font'
There must be another way to do this.
Character
> Hello Character,
>
> Character schrieb:
>
>> Daniel Migowski wrote:
>>
>>> When i look into the Microsoft Word font chooser, I see all fonts
>>> rendered with the glyphs they contain, except "Windings", "MS
>>> Outlook" and some others.
>>>
>>> My own barcode font now is rendered with its name shown in the
>>> symbols of my font which makes really hard to distinguish from other
>>> barcode fonts in the drop down list.
>>>
>>> How do i make windows to show my font name without using the glyphs
>>> from my font?
>>>
>>> With best regards,
>>> Daniel Migowski
>>
>>
>> This is NOT a 'Windows' function, but is unique to each application
>> that can list fonts.
>
>
> I suspected this, but I saw other symbol fonts which make windows
> believe that it is good idea to show the name of the font in front of
> some example symbols. I don't know how to make windows do this for my
> own fonts.
If by "my own fonts" you mean fonts that you've created, SOME
applications will analyze various settings that are internal to each
font before deciding what to do with them. In particular, if the font
is generally defined as a text font, it will show the name in its own
font. However, finding the right flags to define a symbol font may not
be obvious. In FontLab, these settings include:
Encoding (on the font's title bar)
There are dozens of different 'text' encodings, an "Adobe Symbol
Font" encoding, and even a separate "MS Windows Wingdings" encoding.
Also a 'Free Font' encoding (mysterious to me).
And these options in various "Font Info" sections
Platform specific encoding
Panose settings
IBM Class and subclass
PCL-ID
VP-ID
MS-ID
Encoding and Unicode (and codepages)
PCLT Codepages
Some of these may contradict each other. Beyond that, I've never
really understood what the effects of each of these settings are,
either separately or in combination.
>> In Microsoft Word, go to Tools / Customize / Options Tab
>> and UN-check the box that says 'List font names in their font'
>
>
> There must be another way to do this.
Not counting different numerical settings, there are probably close to
a thousand options in any complex application like MS Word (and many
more in an operating system). If you change any of these regularly,
you can usually use Customoization to create a clickable icon. But
beyond that, traversing a common path to select your options is the
most reasonable solution.
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>
Andreas Prilop
> My own barcode font now is rendered with its name shown in the symbols
> of my font which makes really hard to distinguish from other barcode
> fonts in the drop down list.
Your font is severely broken!
You must put Latin letters into code positions U+0041 to U+005A
and U+0061 to U+007A. Use the Private Use Area of Unicode
for your symbols.
http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/charset/fontface-harmful.html
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