Monospace
- Started 16 years ago
- Last post 9 years ago
- 22 Responses
- wordsarepictures
Quick Q: Is there a way to monospace a body of text in InDesign or illustrator using a font that isn't actually monospaced? Effectively over-riding any spacing information you have for that font?
- monospaced1
my brain hurts just thinking about your request
there can be only one
- ********0
are you gathering info for your Offf speech? :p
- wordsarepictures0
Hah, sorry buddy
But do you know what I mean? I have an ascii text image that requires monospacing to work - except I want to use another font for it.- I get it. That is a tough request, though. I wouldn't know where to start.monospaced
- wordsarepictures0
Ah! Someone saw!
- ask me to come on stage, ok?********
- Just do it anyway. Streak even. Takes the heat off me.wordsarepictures
- ask me to come on stage, ok?
- ********0
bring it into fontlab and change the spacing
shouldnt take you long
- wordsarepictures0
Could do. I'm at work at the mo and don't have it, I'll have a look over the weekend, but other than that there's no programs you can use that will monospace fonts?
- ********0
monospace it with ID
- wordsarepictures0
yeah Spraycan that sounds interesting?
- version30
force justify
- that's really word spacingmonospaced
- not if there are no spaces between the characters, it will auto track themversion3
- SoulFly0
Just use the tracking/ kerning. Only check off "optical" in the paragraph or character panel.
- rkrd0
Even if you set the same sidebearings in FontLab, it still won't work as a monospaced font because the pitch/character width isn't the same. There is no easy way to do it I'm afraid.
- ********0
input width > drag each character so it's in the center > export
will take you twice as long as it took me to make this post
- hallelujah0
convert to curves and distribute objects?
- that might just do it if one distributes the centers and not the distances between objectsmonospaced
- exactlyhallelujah
- monospaced0
Holy crap. I managed to make an ASCII image of myself with a non monospaced typeface years ago.
I simply used a table in InDesign to create the grid, then I just hit "tab" after each character entry until I filled it in with characters.- Sure beats the hell out of modifying a typeface or justifying a paragraph.monospaced
- ********0
if its opentype you can do it in indesign
- ernexbcn0
Hey.
- capn_ron0
noted
- ohhhhhsnap0
POINT.
- doesnotexist0
clever, guys.
