Scanfont Newbie Questions
Daniela Duerbeck
I recently bought Scanfont 5 and Type Tool 3 since I think these are
good tools to begin fonting.
For the first try I created an image from a Font to look where which
glyphs are placed into the font.
After merging some cells most glyphs are in a correct position but I
wonder on which place I should e.g. put the Euro sign. (With "position"
I mean the hexnumber under which the glyph is put into the font, not the
geometrical position.) I put it after the position after the Tilde, but
this seems not to be correct.
In the documentation I found that it is also possible to give an image
with borders to Scanfont so that it knows automatically that all
"pixels" inside one cell belong to one glyph.
Now I would like to to know whether someone has already created a
template for some default encoding that just has to be filled out to put
the glyphs into the right position?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Dani
David E. Ross
In Unicode 5.2.0, the euro symbol is at x20AC, which is decimal 8364.
This is in agreement with the HTML 4.01 specification for the €
entity reference.
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Daniela Duerbeck
> In Unicode 5.2.0, the euro symbol is at x20AC, which is decimal 8364.
> This is in agreement with the HTML 4.01 specification for the €
> entity reference.
Yes, that's true.
But:
When I import a font into typetool I can look at different indices for
the glyphs.
http://www.deltadelta.de/nmz/times_unicode.png is the unicode view.
http://www.deltadelta.de/nmz/times_hex.png is the hex view
http://www.deltadelta.de/nmz/times_index.png is an index view (perhaps
this is the order I am looking for, I do not know yet).
What I like to know is in which order I have to paint my glyphs to
import them in the correct order into an e.g. MS Windows 1252 Western
ANSI Font.
It is a bit complicated to explain exactly what I want, I hope I could
explain it good enough, English is not my native language.
I also know that I can easily change glyphs in typetool but it really
would be nice to know the correct order for a default font.
I want to build templates like http://www.deltadelta.de/nmz/sample.gif
that have to be filled out so that most of the glyphs are after
importing from Scanfont to Typetool already in the correct position.
This sample.gif I build with ImageMagick, I would need three templates
to get a decent font that contains most of the glyphs needed in the
Western world.
Armadillo
> I want to build templates like http://www.deltadelta.de/nmz/sample.gif
> that have to be filled out so that most of the glyphs are after
> importing from Scanfont to Typetool already in the correct position.
I would doodle numbers 1,2,3,4, ... 14,15,16 ... to each square and see where they end up. Then change characters in the template accordingly.
This may not be the most scientific approach, though. ;-)
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I have not sent questions to FontLab tech support for a while but way back when I got a few good and prompt replies.
Jukka
Daniela Duerbeck
> I would doodle numbers 1,2,3,4, ... 14,15,16 ... to each square and see
> where they end up. Then change characters in the template accordingly.
Yes. That was what I did in the meantime, but I let my perlscript
doodle. ;-)
http://www.deltadelta.de/nmz/numbers.png (That is the import from
Scanfont to Typetool with an image that contains numbers from 0 to 255)
I tried also pictures with far more numbers: The greyed out glyphs are
filled out with images that come far behind, so it is not an approach to
give an image with so many characters to scanfont.
I think these characters are filled out, when I reach the correct
unicode index and this might take a while ... ;-)
So these have to be put manually. (Eighther by copying them or by
setting the correct Unicode number to each glyph) (Or both)
When I understand correctly, the "position" of a glyph inside a font may
be arbitrarily chosen. (I checked with some existing fonts and they were
all different). But what I am primarily interested in is that my nth
glyph is put on the nth position in "my" font. (So that it gets the
correct Unicode number automatically)
>
> This may not be the most scientific approach, though. ;-)
But for me it is a good approach. ;-)
> I have not sent questions to FontLab tech support for a while but way
> back when I got a few good and prompt replies.
I will ask them. After I bought these two programs from a European
retailer I was a bit astonished not to receive a boxed software and not
even to receive the serial numbers immediately (with the delivery of the
CDs that were not "original"). So I asked Fontlab whether this is OK and
they told me immediately, that it is correct. The do not sell boxed
software. :-)
So they do answer very quickly.
Thanks a lot,
Dani