Topic: Template Preview Font missing characters • RoboFont

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October 14, 2012 at 00:43 #5113

jmickel
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Many characters are not showing up in the glyph templates, even though they exist in the “Template glyphs preview font” that I set in the preferences. I made sure that all characters have a unicode value, regenerated the font with a different name, but they’re still not showing up.

Is there a preferred way for setting unicode? Does it only recognize certain characters for the template preview?

Thanks so much for your help, Frederik! You’ve made the transition much easier than I thought it would be.

J

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October 14, 2012 at 19:43 #5120

frederik
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The template glyphs have no unicode so they will get the generic template glyph drawing.

You can add unicodes to template glyphs by |
see http://doc.robofont.com/documentation/workspace/font-collection/adding-and-deleting-glyphs/

October 15, 2012 at 14:42 #5145

jmickel
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Thanks Frederik.

I added the | syntax to the “Default Charset” for new fonts, but it didn’t help. And if I “Add Glyphs” then the glyph cells turn white with no preview.
I’d like to be able to have template glyphs for all the characters, as a visual way of keeping track of what I still have to draw.

October 15, 2012 at 14:52 #5146

jmickel
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Nevermind, I restarted and it seems to work!

October 15, 2012 at 17:55 #5147

frederik
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As mentions in red at the bottom of the preferences if you change the template font: Template glyphs preview font will be applied after a restart.
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