Simplex Symbol Font

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Posted by: CloudBeery13
         

I have made a True Type symbol font with FontCreator (High-Logic) and have tried to convert this font with the Volt tool, but all I get are nulls in Windows Font folder.  I have run the bare compiler, and it does nothing to my TTF file.  It seems VOLT tool adds a lot of extra code that messes up a font with mostly empty glyphs.  Is there a simple-simon script I can use for a simple-simon font.  Default language is English.

 

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Posted by: Chris Fynn
         
CloudBeery13 wrote:
<<
   I have made a True Type symbol font with FontCreator
   (High-Logic) and have tried to convert this font with the
   Volt tool, but all I get are nulls in Windows Font folder.
   I have run the bare compiler, and it does nothing to my TTF file.
   It seems VOLT tool adds a lot of extra code that messes up a font
   with mostly empty glyphs.  Is there a simple-simon script I can
   use for a simple-simon font.  Default language is English.
 >>

What do you mean "convert" the font?
Volt is for adding OpenType lookups not
for converting fonts from one format to another.

OpenType lookups are unlikely to work in a symbol font.

- C

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Posted by: CloudBeery13
         

I worry that my True Type font will not be recognized by mass media printers.  I plan to distribute the font as freeware for 3rd-party publishers.  VOLT tool recognizes my positioning lookups.  The only difference from a standard Symbol font is I have eliminated the default Windows decent, so the font sits even on the line of a paragraph defined for another font, regardless of the point-size of the Symbol typeface.  Will this variation cause problems in print files or screw up the PCL directives?  Obviously I am not an expert.  Perhaps someone else has dealt with this problem ??

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