Need Advice on Font Program
Hi guys,
I'm looking for a program that allows me to create or modify fonts. The problem is that one of the fonts I want to modify is a Japanese font and has nearly 16000 glyphs in it.
First I tried the shareware version of Font Creator, but it seemed real slow, I tried moving the japanese characters to another font, and 10 minutes later, it was still frozen and windows would say the program was not responding anymore, so I just gave up.
Fontographer wouldn't even open the file, saying there was not enough memory to perform the operation.
I also heard of another program called FontLab, it looks really nice (and really expensive too), but I read that you cannot save fonts with more than 6400 glyphs in them.
Does anyone know of a good program that can handle big fonts like that?
Renn.
27.Jan.2005 8.11am
Shiro, rather than eating the whole cake at one time try eating a slice at a time. Divide your glyphs file into smaller chunks process them then combine it into the mega file. I get dizzy just thinking about 16000 glyphs
27.Jan.2005 8.57am
FontLab has a companion program, AsiaFont Studio, that can do exactly what you want. There's even a demo version for you to try out.
28.Jan.2005 3.47am
What's the font format? Truetype, I suppose?
I think you may be able to do your job with Fontlab too. Download the demo and contact FL for more information.
Dan, it's usual for CJK fonts (Chinese, Korean, Japanese) to have thousands of glyphs.
28.Jan.2005 11.00am
As FontLab is limited to 6400 glyphs specifically so it won't complete with AsiaFont Studio, I am pretty sure it won't work for this purpose.
AsiaFont Studio is the only application I know that I know will work for this. It's possible that DTL FontMaster can do it as well, though I don't know.
T