User Guide

Chapter Seven
Generating and Exporting Fonts
Easy or Advanced
Macintosh Fonts
Windows Fonts
NeXT & Sun PostScript Fonts
Pack Your Suitcase: Bitmap Fonts
Exporting Files
ISOLatin1 Encoding Vectors
You have been happily editing away on your new font. It
appears that everything is just the way you want it. Now
what? For starters, did you realize that your new font isn’t
really a font yet? All you have is a bunch of characters in a
database. Likely, you’ve noticed the message displayed
when you save your font: “Writing Fontographer
database.” You can try to install this database file as many
ways as you can imagine and it will never work as a font
because it has not been encoded into the proper structure.
Fonts are resources which the system must have stored in a
particular manner in order to be shared with applications
which use fonts.
In this chapter, we will discuss all the options available to
you in the wonderful world of font generation.
Before you do anything...
Fonts on the computer all have names, and your fonts are
no exception. If you have not gone into the Font Info dialog
and entered a name for your font, be sure to do so before
generating any font files. Otherwise, your fonts will have
names like “Untitled,” which probably isn’t the name you
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