In FL5, when I open a font and select to show the full character set as NAMES > IMPORTED. How can I save that and create a new font based on that character set and arrangement of gliphs?
John,
Just that I didn't realize that a custom encoding could be saved and I was just "marking" the page so it would end up on my list of threads. "Hmmm" was as brilliant as I could come up with at the moment :-)
If you switch the Font Window to Glyph mode, you should be able to save the whole set as an encoding, but that presumes that the glyph order in the font corresponds to the imported character set. I think it should, but if not you might need to drag the glyphs around in glyph mode to get them in the order you want.
Yes. It used to be called Glyph mode in earlier versions of FontLab, and is stuck in my brain as that. This mode exposes the raw Glyph Index order of the font, i.e. the actual order in which the glyphs are stored, independent of encoding.
20 Jun 2007 — 10:10am
Menu: Glyph / Glyph Names / Save Encoding
20 Jun 2007 — 10:12am
Hmmmm.
ChrisL
20 Jun 2007 — 12:49pm
Mmm?
20 Jun 2007 — 1:00pm
John,
Just that I didn't realize that a custom encoding could be saved and I was just "marking" the page so it would end up on my list of threads. "Hmmm" was as brilliant as I could come up with at the moment :-)
ChrisL
22 Jun 2007 — 12:09am
Mmm'kay.
22 Jun 2007 — 12:11am
Then it’s only saving the encoding of the yellow glyphs. Is there a way to save the entire encoding, so including the new, grey glpyhs?
Pieter
22 Jun 2007 — 3:48pm
If you switch the Font Window to Glyph mode, you should be able to save the whole set as an encoding, but that presumes that the glyph order in the font corresponds to the imported character set. I think it should, but if not you might need to drag the glyphs around in glyph mode to get them in the order you want.
23 Jun 2007 — 5:08am
Thanks John.
Pieter
23 Jun 2007 — 5:10am
It works, but I think you mean index mode.
Thanks again!
Pieter
23 Jun 2007 — 2:24pm
Yes. It used to be called Glyph mode in earlier versions of FontLab, and is stuck in my brain as that. This mode exposes the raw Glyph Index order of the font, i.e. the actual order in which the glyphs are stored, independent of encoding.