Part 1 Part 2 How to set the preferences in Illustrator Set your preferences in Illustrator before you start – see the notes at the bottom of this post.Character glyphs for the d, p, x, and H (if you have made the whole alphabet you get a gold star).Adobe Illustrator (Tutorial shot in CS4 for Mac).Before you begin, check you have the following things: This two-part tutorial will show you in detail how to take artwork you’ve created in Illustrator and transfer it easily across to FontLab Studio 5.

TTX or OTMaster are really handy for that, because they show the unvarnished truth of what's in the font, without interpretation.Ever wondered how to make your own typeface? To give a really concrete example, FLS displays font embedding settings in terms of its interpretation of the settings, rather than the actual bits. It can't open a font, make a tiny change and re-save it as a font without potentially changing other things.

FontLab Studio 5 interprets the OpenType font into its own internal format. So you need to also have a copy of the OpenType or TrueType specification handy, and optionally a more descriptive, hand-holding tool like FontLab Studio. Even Adobe folks often use TTX.) The downside to tools like TTX and OTMaster is that they make little effort to tell you the meaning of the various cryptic values for various fields (or the exact meaning of the field itself), even when said values are legal/legit. (In fairness, Adobe's FDK for OpenType also has table dumping/recompiling tools, just not quite as slick as TTX. It can also recompile the text file back into a font. This dumps the font info to an XML text file, which can be viewed/edited in any text editor or anything that can handle XML. Excerpts from his blog: Currently, if I want a simple and accurate representation of the contents of a TrueType or OpenType font, and possibly to edit the info, I have been using the wondrous open source TTX tool, which is based on the FontTools library. Thomas Phinney compares small font editing tasks in truetype and opentype fonts, and looks at four options: TTX (free), Adobe's OT FDK (free, admittedly less handy than TTX in his own words), DTL OTMaster (commercial and similar to TTX) and FontLab Studio 5. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Comparing TTX, OTFDK, DTL OTMaster and FontLab Studio 5

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