Gerber OMEGA CP, Reference Manual

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568 Chapter 50:
Designing and Building Your Own Fonts
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Choose Absolute.
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Enter 0’s in the X and Y fields in the New Location group box.
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Click OK to return to Composer. The selected character(s) will now be at the 0,0 point
on the horizontal and vertical guidelines.
Saving characters
After creating, positioning, aligning and sizing font characters, use Composer to save each
individual character in its own PLT file with a unique name.
Name the characters according to the conventions described in the following sections.
Naming character conventions
Font Designer requires certain naming conventions when saving the characters to their
individual (PLT) files. The numeric part of the file name relates it to a specific upper- or
lowercase key on the keyboard. For example, the number
87 in the file key87.plt relates the file
to the uppercase W . When you press Shift+W, whatever you have stored in that file appears on
the screen.
Naming standard characters
When naming a character in a standard, connecting, or clean out font, refer to the keycode chart
below. For example, when naming the uppercase character
A , enter KEY65 as the file name.
Then, when you type an uppercase A on your keyboard, this is what will appear on your
screen.
Using the Keycode Chart (for standard, connecting, and clean out characters)
The following Keycode chart provides a list of file names to be used when naming PLT files for
your font. The name of the PLT file determines what character is accessed when you press a
keyboard key.
Characters such as symbols and logos can also be saved to any of the keycodes.
Note: The keycode for close quotes (”) is in the keycode chart for Accented Characters in the
following section.