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Like most of my fonts, CatBats opens very slowly in preview, but works fine if installed, unless you are using Windows Vista. It's probably better to use the character guide for preview before deciding if you want to install it.
~bito
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AmyBats3 is the third in a series of a dingbat font tribute to Amy Winehouse. AmyBats1 and AmyBats2 are currently available on the Metaphase Brothel Graphix homepage:
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/bobistheowl.html
Additional fonts in this series will follow soon.
Here's a prieview from one of the upcoming fonts in this series. I hope ScanFont will let me make one this wide.
~bito
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Congratulations on your fonts, Analia!
I responded to an inquiry from Analia in another fonts forum, suggesting a number of sites where she might be able to display her work. This site was one of them, and I know of at least two other places that I suggested that now have them, as well.
I love AHDN, but I am biased towards dingbat fonts, in particular.
Analia, if you are reading this, please consider sending me an e-mail at bobistheowl@hotmail.com, if you would like to have some assistence with making dingbat fonts. There isn't much in the way of tutorials on the subject that can be found on the Internet, but I have learned a lot through trial and error, and I may be able to give you some tips that you won't be able to find somewhere else. You can find some of my fonts here by looking in the new stuff between January 18 and February 1. I can't help you with any questions about alphabet fonts, though. Most of my font making procedure is based on mathematics, rather than drawing ability.
Thanks,
~bito
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One of my recent fonts, KleinKarpets, is now available on this site. The direct link is:
http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/12701?text=
KleinKarpets is an abstract dingbat font with extra large glyphs; 2.9 inches at 72 point size. It is somewhat unique in that, when specific letters are typed in sequence at 36 point size, up to four glyphs will come together to form a larger glyph. Different sequences of keys will form different larger pictures.
If you like this font, please post a comment, either in this thread, or on the download page.
I'll be posting more of my fonts here over the next few days.
Please note that my fonts have been known to cause problems with Windows Vista when Clearface is enabled, but they work fine with Windows XP. For Mac users, an .otf version of this font is available. I wasn't able to include it in the uploaded zip file because it would have made the .zip file submission larger than the 1 MB limit.
Thanks, I hope you like it.
~bito
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Here's something that should work, but usually doesn't.
Microsoft Word gives you a number of Save As options, such as Word Document, Rich Text Format, WordPerfect document, etc. in the 'Save as type' field in the Save As dialog box. One of the options is to save the document as Web Page. If you don't use MS Word to make your web page, the program you use may offer this option as well. Saving an MS Word document as Web page creates an html document and a file folder which will contain any graphics which have been inserted into the document. This is very similar to what happens when you save a web page from the Internet.
In MS Word, go to Tools in the Menu Bar. Select Options.... from the drop down list. Select the Save tab in the Options dialog box. Check the boxes for Embed True Type fonts and Embed characters in use only. Click OK to close the document, and save the document.
For this to work, the font you're using must have embedding features enabled. This feature is determined by the font designer, but can be modified with some font making/editing programs. For example, I can change embedding settings with FontLab Studio5, but not with ScanFont.
The font being embedded must always be installed on the computer you're using to make the document. If you create a document with an embedded font, don't uninstall that font, because that can affect not only the document you've made, but also any other documents on your computer that have the same font embedded. It can also affect the font itself, and any copies of that font that are on your computer.- None of the character glyphs will appear when you open that font in preview!
This also happens if you rename a font that has already been installed. As far as I could tell, the only way to restore the font is to delete all copies on your computer, delete any documents which have the font embedded, and reacquire the font from wherever you got it in the first place. I have used this procedure to attempt to embed fonts, and it has worked succcessfully once, with a font called 24hourbauer. I've also caused myself a lot of grief by trying to do this with other fonts, even ones I've made myself, where I have personally set the embedding paramenters.
It's also possible that this works properly for any embedible font, provided that all features of MS Word have been properly installed. I don't wan't to test that feature badly enough to uninstall/reinstall MS Word, just to test embedding.
If you do want to try this, I recommend you do the following:
1) Before starting, send yourself an e-mail, with the font you want to use as an attachment. That way, you can retrieve it later, if other copies become corrupted.
2) Make sure you know where every copy of that font is on your computer, either installed, in a .zip, or in another folder. This includes copies which have the same font name in the header, but don't have the same file name, ie: You download a font named ASQRDBD_.TTF, and rename it to match the title given to the font by the author Both will be corrupted.
3) Create the document, and enable the embedding features.
4) E-mail the document with embedding to someone else, or to yourself, for the purpose of viewing it on another computer which does not have the font installed, to see if the embedding worked. The second computer used to check embedding is not at risk. Either the embedded characters will appear corrrectly, or MS Word will use a default font like Times New Roman or, in some cases, Fixedsys.
I make fonts, and have experimewnted with embedding, but I gave up on it when it corruped some of my fonts. This was a big problem when I was making new fonts. I often make multiple versions of a font with the same name, to see if the glyphs need additional editing. If I install version 1.0 of my font, embed 1.0 in a document, uninstall 1.0, then create and install version 1.1, I run the risk of having all versions of 1.0 and 1.1 corrupted. So the key things in this are:
1) Don't Uninstall a font which has been used in any ambedded document on your computer.
2) Test the embedding by viewing the embedded document on a computer which does not have the embedded font installed.
I learned all of this the hard way.
~bito
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