Fontographer Question
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- tactikal2
OK so I'm new to font making and Macromedia fontographer and I'm having a little trouble making my new font work. The inner cut outs of letters like B, P, R all seem to be defined in my fontographer file
But when I export all of those letters get filled in, as you can see from this screenshot in Apple's Fontbook:
Really not too sure what I'm doing wrong... thanks in advance for your help.
- Solid0
Not sure how Fontographer works, but in Fontlab the "inner cut outs" need to be drawn in the opposite direction to the outer eg. clockwise vs counter-clockwise
HTH
btw. sometimes the direction can also depend on whether your outputting PS1 or TT font ..
- snuggles0
Don't you mean Adobe Fontographer? :P
- Solid0
Adobe über alles
- hugelogo0
select the the box or letter. under element— remove overlap.
be sure your previous export is removed as sometimes it causes conflicts
should be good
- thislandslid0
if i were you, the easiest fix would be to copy from fontographer, paste into illustrator - use the pathfinder to make the shape a compound path and paste (with the clipboard set with pdf turned off and to preserve paths)back into fontographer. i built all my letterforms in illustrator and paste into my program(previously fontograpoher - now i use fontlab).
that should work.
- tactikal20
I didn't originally draw these shapes in fontographer, I imported illustrator as an .eps
I've also gotten advice to take the inner shape and rotate it counter-clockwise.
So I get what you're saying, but I'm really not sure which shape was drawn in which direction.
PS... I'd be using fontlab as well, but there was a specific request for font lab.
- thislandslid0
you can still copy and paste from fontographer to illustrator and back. its all vector either way, so that'll work fine.
- tactikal20
Unfortunately you cannot just copy back and forth.
fontographer and illustrator are a little quirky together.. .I had to install an older version of illustrator, and the only way to get the shapes in correctly was by exporting as version 3.2 eps.
- hugelogo0
element—
remove overlap—
open the metric window
and type the letters—
the holes are gone
easy...
- tactikal20
that's the issue huge logo...
when used the remove overlap the inner cut outs just disapear... Which is the same problem I'm having when I generate the font files.
I need to make sure that those inner shapes are recognized.
- build0
Select all the fonts, then select 'Correct path direction' [or something like that, it's been a while since i used Fontographer], then export.
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- tactikal20
That was the one! Thanks mr. build.
- build0
NP. Was the function called 'Correct path direction'?
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- tactikal20
yup... Apple + Shift + K
can't believe it took me 5 hours to figure it out.