For me, there is the fact that I have a fairly severe coding challenge. Adding OpenType features is very easy in some ways and very difficult in others. The fun part of the new OpenType capabilities Hopefully, it will be showing up in more and more places as people become more sophisticated typographically and its advantages become obvious to the masses. I took a brief overview course online a few weeks ago from Thomas Phinney showing how FireFox 4+ supported OpenType. In addition, it is beginning to work on the Web. It also works to some degree in Apple’s publishing suite, like Pages and Keynote. It’s not nearly as bad as it looks! OpenType is for the Creative Suite But if you open a feature file in your text editor, it will probably look quite a bit like what you see above. I was in FontLab, so it was a little easier as it has a panel that lists the features on top in a separate window from the classes. As I recall I opened Jenson first and about fell on the floor. At that time, Adobe fonts were the only OpenType fonts to which I had access. I still remember the first time I took a look at a feature file. It is really a big deal when we start working with OpenType and all the glyphs which are considered variants of the original characters. You need to bug FontLab on the forums to add View By Name in the Font Window. Secondly, unless there is a Unicode listing for your new character, Fontographer will show it as ** in the Font Window because there is no way to View By Name. I have also built several free sample files for you (at the end of this posting). We’ll talk about that more at the end of this booklet. We should be able to compile our feature file and have the new glyphs added automatically. It is very important that glyphs are added in a consistent order for substitution lists like small caps and so on. First, there is no interface to control where characters are added. No easy way to add the characters in FOGĪs you will see, we will be adding several hundred characters to make even a modest OpenType font. txt- yes, this is writing code and it is a pain. The main thing is that you need to save it with the. However, it is raw text so you can do your feature file in TextEdit, NotePad, or whatever app you have to edit text only files or do it in FontLab. There is no interface within Fontographer to do that. You must have one already written and use it. However, Fontographer does not provide any way to edit the file. No way to edit that feature file in Fontographer Fontographer will use that feature file to build your OpenType font when you generate it. You link to it in the font info dialog box on the Encoding page. Having said that, if you have a feature file, you can use it in Fontographer 5.1. Fontographer really does not deal well with OpenType at all.
FontLab has good, professional tools for developing OpenType fonts-but it is certainly not simple or easy.
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