Save as photofont:

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Save as photofont:

I’m trying to make a photofont. I believe I have to place the image (tiff) to the background and then save as .phf. But when I try to use the font in the fontlab app it won’t show.

Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong?

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You have to use png instead of tiff.

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Still doesn’t work. Also when I save and quit and reopen the file the background image is gone.

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Is there somewhere an tutorial for making a photofont?

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You want to use a photo font in Fontlab Studio?
AFAIK, FLS does not support PHF.

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In Fontlab Pad

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I have it working now, I think I had a problem with the size of the images.

Is there an size limit?

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No more Photofonts in Glyphs 2.0 correct?

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It is removed from the standard installation because it is not supported by any software out there.

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Gotcha, thanks!

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Try an sbix font, works on Apple devices: https://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/creating-an-apple-color-font

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Thanks @mekkablue. I got this to work, only when I get the font to > 17pt, some images disappear, not sure why.

I’m on an unstable el capitan os, so that could be why.

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That might have to do with how you set up you layer names/pixel sizes.

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I’ve set it up just like the tutorial:

  • Regular (no image)
  • iColor 512
  • iColor 256
  • iColor 128
  • iColor 96

Here’s my glyphs file if you want to check it out sBix Font Test.zip (944.6 KB)

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There seem to be a problem with the exported sbix table. I’ll fixed it.

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I fixed it.