undotting the i's...
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- ********
I need to remove the dots from lower case i's and j's of a typeface... what is the best and simplest software to do that with?
as i need to replace them withsome thing else dynamically in flash
- kld0
In body text, with the font embeded in the text box?
- detritus0
Not 'best' - but TypeTool is easily good enough to do that, and is pretty cheap ($99). It's my standard 'i need a cheap font editor' recommendation.
- i think he wants dynamic replacement... not font editing
could be wrong********
- i think he wants dynamic replacement... not font editing
- ********0
[blinks]... this is something a client requested?
- ********0
if i could find in the type something which swapped out the i with an i without the dot that would be ideal... going through the character set at the moment... speaking of which how do i get a list of all the characters on a mac for a font?
- kld0
we did this once in fontographer, but any font building software should work. You would replace a character that you know you don't need(an asterisk for example) with the altered character that you create then any time you need the altered i or j you type the asterick symbol
- ********0
or delete the dot in the i and save as "typefacename.alt" or something
- TheBlueOne0
Is this part of that new fangled "The New Ugly" movement? Sure sounds like it...
- er... no, it will be well elegant!********
- Ugly can be elegant.TheBlueOne
- Is that what your mum said?********
- er... no, it will be well elegant!
- ********0
SHIFT ALT B - Seems to do it... hello I am an i, and now I've lost my head... ı
- looks to me to be a different character, ı seems fatter than the i -> ıi maybe just at certain sizes...emecks
- yeah i thought that but for the typeface i'm using (Haas Unica) it is fine :)********
- kld0
if the cliet needs to be able to edit text you could probably do an if statement that replaces characters
- ********0
thanks for your help... the ı's have it !
- ********0
can't find a j though :(
- feed the i some henna and wait till it curls one off ;)emecks
- coldy0
replaceString(”this is a test”, “test”,”aws”)
//returns “this is aws”you would need to add the new character into the font file though, then do the replacing like above.