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Step Five
My computer sucks. It crashes if I leave two applications running
at the same time for more than five minutes. So I'm moving pretty
fast at this point, cuz I've gotta copy the letters from Illustrator
and paste them into Fontographer real quick before my computer crashes.
So I copy a bunch at a time in Illustrator and paste them into Fontographer.
What will happen when letters are copied from Illustrator to Fontographer
is the characters will be sized to fit from the lowest descender
(like the bottom of the lowercase y) to the highest ascender (the
top of any capital letter). To get all of your characters to come
across the same size as each other as they move from Illustrator
to Fontographer, you'll have to create a dummy character that represents
what this height should be.
So I draw a box that's big enough to go from the top of the capital
A to to the base of a lowercase y. Umm.... like this:
Now I copy each horizontal row of letters (along with the box
that keeps the height of all the characters uniform) in Illustrator
and paste 'em into a space in Fontographer. It's kinda goofy, but
this is important: When copying in Illustrator, you must hold
down the "option" key as you pull down "copy" from the edit menu.
The keyboard shortcut for copying won't work, and you must hold
down the "option" key as you copy.
Keeping Illustrator open, open up Fontographer, too. Go under
"File" and select "New Font." You'll get a window like this:
Select the "A" box and pull down "paste" from the edit menu. Once
again, you might have problems if you use the keyboard shortcut
to paste, so remember to use the pull-down menu.
So now I've pasted the characters A-J into the A box. Next I paste
K through T into the K box. And repeat with each line of letters
until I've gotten everything from Illustrator into Fontographer
so I can quit Illustrator before my computer crashes.
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