Typophile - Creating custom made glyphs in InDesign - Comments

Ah yes, CS3. I was searching

b.fuller — Sat, 3 May 2008 09:01:43 -0700

Ah yes, CS3.

I was searching all around for the answer and it wasn’t looking good but I thought I would give it a shot. However this Clipboard contents may help, this is a large doc with a lot of occurences. Dang typeface with limited palette! Would love to change for utility purposes however . . . beauty/originality v. utility—the debate continues.

Thank you for your prompt answer.

You can’t actually create

Theunis de Jong — Fri, 2 May 2008 15:59:43 -0700

You can’t actually create a custom glyph. Rather, you move pieces closer together with kerning, perhaps with a spot of re-sizing and moving the baseline up and down. Done that a zillion times, for special accents and the odd math :-(

You can store most settings in Character styles; also (always mention your CS version!), in CS3 you can replace anything by the Clipboard contents. That’s proven to be quite useful when there’s lots of the same stuff in your doc.

Creating custom made glyphs in InDesign

b.fuller — Fri, 2 May 2008 15:17:06 -0700

Anyone have any advice about creating custom glyphs in InDesign such as a proportional fraction alternate a particular typeface doesn’t offer? And how to use this new glyph in a find/change operation? Thank you for your help.