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X Height: 512 - the top edge of the lowercase x, might be the default of your editor. Ascent + |Descent| = UPMĬap Height: 717 - the top edge of the uppercase letters

This should be a negative value since it's measured from the baseline. Units per em: 1024 - this is your font's UPM.Īscent: 768 - the top edge of the character with the highest structure.ĭescent: 256 - the bottom edge of the character with the lowest structure. Origin X is your left sidebearing.Īs for the vertical metrics, it refers to the 5 settings mentioned after Family Name in Font Face Attributes. Does your character touch the left edge of the glyph? If it does, then Horiz. Since advance was mentioned then it might be referring to the sidebearing. The sidebearing is the space/distance from the character to the left or right edge of the glyph. Origin Y: 256 - could be the right sidebearing Value is negative if the character extends beyond the left edge of the glyph Origin X: 0 - could be the left sidebearing. Advance X: 1024 - could be the glyph width You only see Horiz because that section refers to the horizontal metrics of the glyph. It will allow you access to the settings that you wanted to change.

#FONTFORGE CHANGE POSTSCRIPT FONT NAME FREE#

Have you tried FontForge - it is absolutely free and I read here Claude mentioned that it can import SVG files.

I have no idea about your font editor but you need a real font editor. even with the font-specific filter addons. Is there a way to do either of those things using either of these *free software* applications or some other *free application*, because I just want to create this one font to use it in an article? I'm fairly familiar with Gimp at this point, but I don't see a way of associating glyphs with a unicode codepoint in that app either and saving it as a font package.

#FONTFORGE CHANGE POSTSCRIPT FONT NAME HOW TO#

But I can't figure out how to do it there either. So I tried reading in the TTF font I had converted from Inkscape SVG online, into FontForge thinking I might be able to at least modify the baseline of the canvas there. Keep the letter form above the baseline of all my other fonts.

I suppose I could set it to a negative number and see what happens using the 'Captain Corrigan' logic: 'Whatever seems logical do the opposite.'Īt any rate I sort of gave up on Inkscape because I couldn't figure out how to do either of the things I needed to do in it: 1. I can't change any of this in the Font Editor, but on the glyph editor the baseline is not at 0, it's at -768! Shouldn't it be at 0? Shouldn't the descenders be below 0 and the ascenders above? BTW, I did enter a positive 768 for the ascender value when I set up the canvas, so I don't know why it comes up negative. Is this because the application developer couldn't spell 'Vertical' or even abbreviate it? (Sorry about that comment, but I'm frustrated.) At any rate this is what the attributes are specified at:įamily Name: SVGFont The first thing I noticed about the attributes is that both X and Y are called the 'Horiz. After noticing that the setup for the baseline, etc., is too low I checked the attributes in the SVG Font Editor under 'Global Settings'. I used the Typography extension in Inkscape to set up the canvas and changed the em height to 1024 from the default 1000 because I planned to get a TrueType font as the end product, rather than a Postscript. Next, I discovered that converting the SVG file to TTF works, sort of, but the letter forms are all below the baseline for my other fonts. How do you associate a glyph layer with a unicode value other than this rather clunky naming convention? I can't find anything about how to do that anywhere, but it seems it would be an easy thing to do. This doesn't seem to work for lower case letters, however. Using Inkscape in combination with Gimp I have been able to create the font layers in an SVG file where naming the glyph layer associates it with a capital letter, provided the name is a capital letter. I'm attempting to create a font with only about 20 characters, which are special sigla that aren't part of the unicode scheme.

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