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5. Press “OK” to close the TrueType Options dialog.

6. Windows users may generate a bitmap font (.fon)

for use with Windows TrueType fonts, or for use

when printing to a non-postscript printer, such as

dot matrix.

7. Check the “Overwrite existing files” option.

When this option is not checked, any filename created

which conflicts with an existing filename in the same

folder will have a bullet ( ) or dollar sign ($) appended to

its name.

8. Point Fontographer to the folder where you wish to

save your fonts, via the Set Folder/Directory button.

9. For more on choosing the PC Family, see the

section on FONs.

10. When all the options have been selected,

press “Generate” to close the dialog and generate

the font.

Symbol Encoded PC fonts

When you generate a PC TrueType font, a checkbox allows

for a special symbol encoding option. This is the same

encoding format used in the dingbats font in Windows 3.

1, “Wingdings.” Rather than converting your PC font to the

ANSI key layout (which results in some missing

characters), Symbol encoding will output every character in

your database from the Dec 32 (space) to Dec 255 (caron),

except 127 and 160. All characters in the normal ASCII

(Dec 32-126) sequence will remain accessible by striking

the alpha-numeric keys. But since extended ASCII

characters on the PC are accessed by typing the

ALT+0XXX key combination, if you want the copyright

symbol (), hold down the ALT key and use the numeric

keypad to type 0 followed by the decimal number for the

extended ASCII (Dec 128-255) character. If you have any

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