Member Typ… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Hey guys, I was just wondering if there is a software which can export all the glyphs in the to a PDF file just by a click( instead of manually typing all the glyphs) Thanks Link to comment
Member Typ… Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 Damn! why isn't there an edit post button? all the glyphs in I meant all the glyphs in that particular font file. It should preferably be a PDF file(not a great fan of printing, unless it is absolutely essential) Link to comment
Member Kar… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 What font editing software are you using? Link to comment
Member cla… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Ben Kiel’s GlyphProofer does exactly that. It's for OS X, and you can get it here:https://github.com/houseind/robothon/tree/master/GlyphProofer You can add several fonts (eg. all the upright fonts of the same family) and have each glyph render as a string of the weights of the fonts you have added. Link to comment
Member The… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 One of the tools in Adobe's Font Dev Kit does exactly this. (Addendum: though not in a single click, as they are all command line tools) Link to comment
Member Typ… Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 I am using fontlab studio windows. Unfortunately i don't have a mac right now. But i am going to get one in 4-5 months (Yay!) Okay just asking, how hard is learning AFDKO? Link to comment
Member old… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 How hard? From what I gather: very. It would probably be easiest to generate a scratch copy of the font, install it, then construct a file to export or print to PDF is your favorite desktop application… Link to comment
Member Bob… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 If you generate a scratch TTF, you can use FRET, part of SIL's FontUtils -- no font install needed. Link to comment
Member Ral… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 There is also a nice script for InDesign:http://indesignsecrets.com/make-a-font-contact-sheet-in-indesign.php Link to comment
Member gar… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 I vaguely remember doing this once... first exported the glyphs to EPS with FontLab (select glyphs, File > Export > EPS), then used something else to batch convert EPS to PDF (probably a Mac/Unix shell script). Link to comment
Member Typ… Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 @Ralph that script is brillliant.. Thanks.. That is what I wanted. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 It would be good of Ben Kiel to make a Windows version. hhp Link to comment
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