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Hi everybody! Hope you had a nice chritmas.
For myself, wasn't bad!
I'm now trying to build a typeface (.TTF). I spent two (vacation)days designing, scanning and converting my characters in CorelDraw9, then convert it in to .ttf...tadammmmmmm...IT'S NOT WORKING!!! the file is there, but I can't see it, use it or install it! even the windows preview does'nt work!
I remembered I had already do one (poor) font a few years ago in corel4, so I exported all my characters in .eps (the save as previous version works back through version 5!!!) did back all the work in scaling and all and all...but I can't export it to .TTF ( it says that I have too many objects to export, even if I had combined every character in one single curve)
Somebody have a clue to solve this, a freeware, shareware, old trick or another way I can do this using my corel file or an eps file????
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I has been a long time since I've have created a font using Corel Draw. From memory you have to create your characters with a caps size of 720 points. You also need to use an A4 page and move the 0,0 point up 30 points and to the right 30 points, so the your rulers have the 0,0 on the page. Finally your must export your first character as a "Null" character. This is usually a 720 point high rectangle. If this is all a bit comfussing I can email you a couple of example files.
-------------------- Andrew Gourvelos A Signs Sydney, NSW, Australia Posts: 104 | From: Sydnet, NSW Australia | Registered: Mar 2000
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Marc, you are probably exporting your character from the wrong place on the screen.
Set your page size to 720 points, position one character inside the box, select that one character and export it ttf. Now see if that one character works as a font. Play around with just one character until you get things working then convert the rest of the letters.
You can only export one character at a time. That character has to be one object. When you get that error message, something is not combined right.
In my experience, Corel is not especially sensitive to the number of nodes, so I doubt that is your problem.
If you continue to be stalled, email me a few characters and I will see if I can convert it successfully. vic@anchorblanks.com
Corel is tedious to make fonts, but it works fine. Vic G
-------------------- Victor Georgiou Danville, CA , USA Posts: 1746 | From: Danville, CA , USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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