I am not sure what is being asked here, I have no background working
with or knowledge of fonts. I found Softy back when it was first made
available and like you, I never picked it up because the information in regards
to how you can use it were sparce. Speaking for a majority of one, I like pictures, this way I know what I am supposed to be seeing or see the next thing that I will have to contend with. This is to help you to use Softy from "Scratch" although, I would wonder why you would want to. |
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I would suggest that you use some form of a graph while you do fonts, This will help in the control of the uniformity of your glyphs. However, If you make fonts that are very technical, Then I think it better to be done on drafting paper and scanned into the program. I think this would maintain the precision you wish best. |
In conclusion, I found this to be very similar to what you set up for
doing Dingbats. Using ANSI on the Attributes Dialog box, only changed the
discription in PSP from Symbol font to Western font. In all fairness, I just
made the one glyph, the letter E the rest of what I did was just pure
junk since I had nothing to guide me in the laying down of the points. I
will say this, I did not crash my computer which I did expect to happen,
I kept the number within the 2048em's and It went well, Will I try it again?,Why
Not?, Someone with a lot of patience and a good idea can certinly create
a font using Softy. I have since found that for a font, you need much less EM spacing, I set it down around 650 and still changed the spacing manually to what I considered was normal for the way I write. |
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