Custom Characters in OTF/TTF fonts
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Trenloe
I'd be happy to give pointers to any community members who want to make changes/updates.
Okay, I'll ask a question that has been on my mind. I want to create my own set of fonts that have the star wars symbols AND the genesys symbols available. I can currently access the star wars symbols in the regular font used in the rulset by using the "Alt+Number" method. For example ALT+241 gives me the Setback symbol (If anyone wants me to post the list I have, let me know). Back to my question.
I have your OTF font (EotESymbol-RegularMod.otf), I have the genesys symbols in a TTF (Genesys.ttf), I have the FGFontGenerator.exe as well. However, the otf and ttf only contain the symbols, so will not work when turned into the FGF font format that FG uses.
I have the Microsoft OpenType SVG font editor, which can replace symbols in a font (it allows you to convert ttf/otf symbols to svg symbols). So I figure, all I need is a ttf/otf font that has the full 255 symbol set and I can replace the ones at the end of the list with my own, then save as TTF, then generate that font as an FGF.
Please correct me, if I am wrong (and if you can understand my ramblings). But this would be great, as looking at the font symbols, I could extend their use to bold and italic and possibly header as well.
Joe