I have been asked how you would handle wide characters/graphics that
are of heavy weight, So this is how I see the problem. Since the graphic
was described as "Wide Character" I am going to believe that you want
to make a font instead of a dingbat, But you are worried about how to handle
the spacing of wide characters, like the w and the m Well, for dingbats you have been told to accept the default values of the first two dialog boxes that come up once you specify that it is a NEW dingbat. Well, as a font, You cannot pass up the first two dialog windows that come up. On the first dialog window, you should change the type from Symbol to ANSI, doing this will make your font recognizable as a font instead of a dingbat. there are many other boxes that you can check off on this window, However I have not done any of this. The second dialog window that comes up is the METRICS it is a small window and here you would enter the number of EM's that you think your characters would require. I am going to guess here, but I used a figure of 1200em's, If you have made any dingbats, you know that the figure is roughly twice this number. With this done, you are now ready to start scanning your characters into Softy. (I say scan, because that is what Softy does, or you could say Softy reads the character if you want) and you pick up where you normally start by adding the space character as your first character in the new font. |
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