It's a bit of a doozy.

[hypochondriac]

I am interested in purchasing this software, for only the capability of editing 64,000 glyphs. The thing is, I want to make an actual unicode font as per unicode 5.1, requiring the editing of over 64,000 glyphs.

Is there a software solution for this sold by your company? Can I in fact use ASF4 to edit and save a font with more than 64,000 glyphs?

Is there any other idea you can think of to handle this? Only thing I can think of is a batch script for building the font once I've designed all the glyphs separately. However I am not familiar enough with how a .ttf file is handled, so I wouldn't even know where to begin writing a batch script to compile a font.

Do you perhaps know a resource, website guide or book, that explains in detail the information I would need to design a .ttf batch file?

Thanks in advance!

[Adam Twardoch (FontLab)]

AsiaFont Studio and TypeTool both permit up to 65,535 glyphs. This is also the maximum that the OpenType and TrueType specifications permit in a font. It's not technically possible to make one OpenType or a TrueType font that would cover the entire Unicode Standard version 5.1 character set. So it's not a limitation of our software but of the font format.

[Glagolitic]

Check out http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html which contains the full 65,536 code points of the BMP.

In fact, turn it on as the default background font for FontLab and see Unicode like you've never seen it before.

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