Create A Font with Xara

[Ron Duke]

WONDERFUL FONT! Welcome to TG!

[gottwavo]

[QUOTE=This year i learn to create my own font with Xara and Fontlab studio.
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Mikrojihad,

Can you explain how you create your fonts?
I am trying the same. However I struggle with copying the font from Xara to Fontlab.
Thanks for explaining your workflow.

Volker

[gottwavo]

In addition to the above:
One way of getting the font/letter/glyph created in Xara into FontLab is to export the letter as ai/eps and then import it into Fontlab. So far so good. The problem with this is that you have to save each single letter as a file and when importing the letter is not positioned in FontLab where it should be and you have to move it.
Using Adobe Illustrator you can copy and paste the glyph into FontLab, which is much easier. When I do this in Xara the glyph is visible in FontLab but is displayed on the background layer. I assume this is because the format of the file in the clipboard is not correct o matching.
Is there any trick to get around this? Can you select in Xara what format to use for the clipboard. Can you paste to the correct layer in FontLab?
Thanks for any advice.
(Yes you could use Illustrator to design the font or do it in FontLab directly. However Xara is much better and easier to use ... and I know Xara better.)

[gottwavo]

More on the above:
I found one trick in FontLab to convert the bit map pasted from the clipboard into a glyph on the outline layer.
First copy the letter from Xara and paste it into FontLab. (It shows in grey on the background layer.) Then from the Menu in FontLab select Tools/Background/Trace. The traced letter will show on the outline layer.
In Options you can set the trace options.
I will experiment with this workflow and see if it works.

[Mikrojihad]

Yes, i do exactly like you do sir. I just export each letter as eps/ai format, then import it to the glyph window in fontlab. It works fine for me. About positioning in fontlab , i do it manually. However, i still learn using fontlab studio. Glad to meet you sir, i hope you can share your knowledge with me.
sorry my english not very well.