All my glyphs are in red

[empireoflight]

Hi, I imported some hand drawn letters from scan font into fontlab 5, but they are all showing with red bars above the glyph windows, and when I try to type them in the preview window, the wrong characters are showing up. I'm confused by all the names/unicode stuff, so any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

Just choose the Mac OS Roman codepage view in the font window and drag your glyphs to the cells they should occupy.

[empireoflight]

Hmm, that's not working for me or maybe I just don't understand what you mean. When I export my letters to fontlab, they appear at the end of the table of glyphs in the font window. When I select them and drag them up into the glyphys they are supposed to occupy, the glyph container's top part turns red. The bottom of the fonts window has three menus: names, names mode, and default encoding. No matter what I change these to, the glyphs are all still red.

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

To assign proper Unicode indices choose in menu Glyph > Glyph Names > Generate Unicode.

[empireoflight]

That did it. I don't know why it did it, but that's because I 'm clueless about unicode and encoding in general. Thanks!

[ahmed safwat]

I see that you must go to unicode website and choose the concerning range and print it so you'r sure of each glyph unicode name and code then you could change both of them by opening the order rename glyps

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