... "Alternates for Selection" for the Indesign Glyph Palette Soft, Hard Returns with InDesignCS3 › That should ... any positive integer value. This approach avoids outline scaling rounding errors within your font source. If taking this approach, ...

Forum topic - James Puckett - 7 Mar 2008 - 8:07am - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... i scaled the letters to match the x-height.. but after scaling i noticed that all of the proportions of the letters where slightly ... corresponds to 1 font unit in FontLab Studio. So to get a glyph that is 700 units high in the font, you need to draw it 700 pt high in ...

Forum topic - omar - 4 Dec 2008 - 9:58pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... a very small value to be added, and the same goes for glyph scaling, as that really can get ugly. Look carefully, adjust with the preview ...

Forum topic - typehunter - 28 Feb 2008 - 5:39pm - 23 comments - 0 attachments

... with the 1000 em grid? In general I suspect multiple scaling efforts will distort the forms if this is the case, otherwise is there ... Armed with these two facts, If you scale your glyph art in Illustrator so that 1 point corresponds to 1 em unit, it will be ...

Forum topic - Diner - 26 Oct 2005 - 8:46am - 12 comments - 0 attachments

... - makes quality typography easy Photoshop - missing a glyph palette but apart from that rock solid fonts - more features, more ... If the leading had been reduced, and horizontal scaling of 95% applied, to increase the bottom and outside margins, for more ...

Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 16 May 2008 - 9:20am - 123 comments - 0 attachments

... fontographer but this means the whole alphabet is in one glyph space and the letters are tiny, and I mean really small (remember I had ... and the lower in another, fontographer applies different scaling to each set. Now that I have traced and am happy with my bezier ...

Forum topic - octopi - 3 Jun 2005 - 5:38pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... where the user can specify which font (along with scaling and baseline adjustment) to use for each Unicode range - rather than ... I think. I am not sure about the others but maaaybe. Some glyph sets will not be good in mono no matter what you do. Urdu probably falls ...

Forum topic - Tomek Peszor - 24 Jan 2008 - 4:06am - 38 comments - 0 attachments

... fits within the current window. In Preferences / Glyph Window / Dimensions, you can set up the visual ascender and descender. By ... on your font data — it’s just a screen scaling factor.’ I am not finding this working in Fontlab 5.04 under ...

Forum topic - billtroop - 18 Aug 2008 - 10:38am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... a checklist of what needs to go into a font aside from glyph design/sidebearings/kerning, as I have no idea about ... as shown in this animation. The other glyph you could consider reducing the size of is w. This Venetian style of w ... I don’t know how they should line up...and simply scaling them looks stringy. Does the fraction line usually go to the baseline ...

Forum topic - Bendy - 31 Oct 2008 - 12:31pm - 122 comments - 15 attachments

... the best result is most often called “optical scaling.” These subtle alterations to glyph shapes depending on the physical size. The most important such change ... optical scaling would have been to provide a diversity of glyph shapes on “photomats”. The labor-saving and somewhat crude ...

Wiki - raph - 19 Jul 2005 - 3:14am - 0 comments