Importing a custom Encoding/Character set (This a problably a dumb question, sorry)

haag20 Jun 2007

Hi!!

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?

thks in advance ;)

Fabio

John Hudson20 Jun 2007#

Menu: Glyph / Glyph Names / Save Encoding

dezcom20 Jun 2007#

Hmmmm.

ChrisL

John Hudson20 Jun 2007#

Mmm?

dezcom20 Jun 2007#

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

John Hudson22 Jun 2007#

Mmm'kay.

Pieter van Rosmalen22 Jun 2007#

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

John Hudson22 Jun 2007#

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.

Pieter van Rosmalen23 Jun 2007#

Thanks John.

Pieter

Pieter van Rosmalen23 Jun 2007#

It works, but I think you mean index mode.
Thanks again!

Pieter

John Hudson23 Jun 2007#

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.

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