create mutated vowels in a TTF- with Xara?

[Holger]

Hello, for some reasons I need umlauts (mutated vowels) for a fistful of truetype fonts.
Is ist possible to load and edit a TTF inside Xara?
(It is only for personal use in private documents and I do not have any copyright violation in mind.)

regards
Holger

[iamtheblues]

Hi Holger, yes it's possible, but to do so you have to convert the text into editable shapes (arrange menu/convert to editable shapes), and then ungroup it twice. Xara will now treat the text as shapes, which you can edit with the shape editor tool or pen tool. Of course the text will no longer be editable. Your mutated vowels could then be exported to CorelDraw, where it is possible to make a True Type Font.
Saludos,
Bob.

[ss-kalm]

@Bob,
So what you actually mean't was - "No, it isn't possible to load and edit a TTF inside Xara"

@Holger
Can't you just draw the umlauts separately and add them by hand

[bcire68]

Holger,

I don't use a German keyboard so when I want to use umlauts (accented vowels), I use MS Word to pull in the symbol for the accented letter and then copy and paste it into the text in Xara. I then highlight the accented letter in question and apply the font that I want to use. I have never run into any problems using this method. Perhaps the font isn't recognizing the keystroke from you keyboard but would recognize the character from Word. Just a thought. Also if that works a faster workaround would be to use the keyboard shortcuts for symbols, but as I don't know them, using Word woks faster for me. I think Word even shows you what the shortcuts are.


Wann's hilft kann Ich probieren alles zu aklaeren auf Deutch, aber Ich kann kaum buchstabieren auf English und my Deutch ist noch schlimmer.

Eric

[Holger]

Thank you!
Now, after reading, I think, I just have to give 99 dollars away for fontlab's TypeTool 3...

[iamtheblues]

[QUOTE=ss-kalm;272243]@Bob,
So what you actually mean't was - "No, it isn't possible to load and edit a TTF inside Xara"

What I actually meant was, yes it's possible, but to do so you have to convert the text into editable shapes (arrange menu/convert to editable shapes), and then ungroup it twice. Xara will now treat the text as shapes, which you can edit with the shape editor tool or pen tool. Of course the text will no longer be editable. Your mutated vowels could then be exported to CorelDraw, where it is possible to make a True Type Font. Is there any point in debating this?
Saludos,
Bob.

[ss-kalm]

No offence Bob, your method didn't really seem to fit "load and edit a TTF inside Xara"

[Zupdude]

I'm not familiar with Xtreme enough to directly answer you question; hopefully someone else can explain how to do this in Xtreme.

It may not be cool to give this answer here, but if I understand your question, you can accomplish this with CorelDRAW. What I think you want to do is to alter the actual TTF file to include the various characters that you need. You do this by exporting to/appending a True Type Font file. You can do this even in older versions, so if you don't have CDraw, you can buy an older copy for next to nothing on eBAY. Once you have DRAW, here's a good, simple and straight forward tutorial for you. If you try this, before you alter anything, remember: Make a backup copy of the file. Make a backup copy of the file. Make a backup copy... You get the point! Also, don't try to append/alter installed font files. Windows may not let you anyway, but don't try it just the same.

It doesn't seem that you need it, but there are programs devoted to font creation, too. Google "True Type Creation Programs" if you're interested.

Again, I don't know if Xtreme has this capability, but if not, it might be good to consider a TTF export filter in future versions.

Good luck!

[Holger]

Okay, I see.
Thank you all again!

[Soquili]

Xara Xtreme cannot load a ttf file for editing.

As Bob mentioned you can edit a text object within Xtreme, however that is not changing the ttf file for future use.

To make changes to the ttf file Fontlab does offer several applications.