Know this isn’t a GlyphsApp question, but most here are designers and know there way in Adobe and type design.
I would like to create editable Character Set overview in InDesign with a perfectly vertical alignment like you see in Glyphs and FontExplorer for example:
Sorting it with CID /GID, unicode or own setting. There is a script/plugin for InDesign that creates a contactsheet from all the glyphs or the one you want → Contactsheet InDesign. It creates spacebar space between the glyphs and you can align the text like you normally do in InDesign: center, left, fill out etc. It works like a charm, but what i miss is the option to perfectly align all the characters vertically, like a grid. Of course you can do this in InDesign manually: character for character, but it is really intensive and not really workable and editable if you have 600 characters for example. Anyone have a trick to do this?
Thanks for your help. I mean that all characters are aligned like that are in a boxed grid with or without the lines, like working in Glyphs, but maintain edit-ability in InDesign. Creating a table for example is very intensive to work with if you want to make a change in size, flow etc.
Yes i know that feature, but it isn’t editable, text flowing, sizing etc. I will use font contactsheet script for now comes closest. Would be great to have that feature.
I have a script that gives you InDesign tagged text from a Glyphs file. I have just added tabbed version, which you can convert to tables in InDesign if you want to.
Tabs can be converted to tables, so I think tabbed text is a better source. Only downside of this tagged text is that everything is in glyph ID internally.
I use now the font contactsheet script > auto replace space > with tabs > convert > into tables (make sure to brake at the right point)… Best workflow for this so far works great. Thanks again everyone.
