The print options in recent versions of FontLab are indeed woeful, but that’s a separate issue from getting every glyph out of a font tool and into a program like InDesign. The Glyphs script that Mic… (View Post)
Apart from the need to familiarise yourself with some probably unfamiliar letter shapes, these are some things to keep in mind: * Traditionally, IPA was almost always set in roman type, but increasin… (View Post)
The earlier versions of the Brill types were 1000 UPM, so I went to 4000 to give me more refinement but without introducing rounding errors. Using power-of-two UPM was a Microsoft recommendation for … (View Post)
That’s only one of the problems with Ray’s approach. It also means that text is being broken to achieve a visual result in one particular font. The text is no longer searchable, indexable, or sortab… (View Post)