Gerber OMEGA CP, Reference Manual

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552 Chapter 50:
Designing and Building Your Own Fonts
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Align and scale the font characters in Composer and save each character in its own
keycode file. A keycode file is named key
nnn .plt, where nnn is a number that is
mapped to a specific keyboard key.
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Build the font in Font Designer:
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Set the directory path.
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Enter the font settings.
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Set the kerning for the font if building standard, connected, or clean out
fonts.
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Process the kern settings if building standard, connected, or clean out fonts.
Once you have completed these steps, you can then access the new font in Composer.
Font types
Several different types of fonts can be built in Font Designer.
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Standard (single-byte) fonts contain fewer than 256 characters.
STANDARD
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Connected fonts are designed so that adjacent characters join each other.
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Clean out fonts contain a clean out tool path for use with a router.
Inputting the artwork
The four preliminary steps to prepare your font for processing in Font Designer are:
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Creating a subdirectory for the font characters.
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Bringing the artwork into Composer.
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Aligning and scaling the characters in Composer.
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Saving the characters in individual PLT files.
Creating a subdirectory
Your font character files can be stored in a subdirectory under the
\Jobs
directory on your
C
drive. Create a subdirectory that relates to the name you will use for your font. For example, if
you were going to call your font Style, you might create a subdirectory with the path
C:\Jobs\Style.