Figure 1: FontWriter Special menu.
The Special menu lets you perform some actions on all characters in the font.
Table 1 lists all Special menu commands.
Table 1: FontWriter Special Menu commands.
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Command |Description
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Set Spacing |Changes spacing between characters and
and Leading |between lines (leading). In the dialog that
|appears type in the number of pixels you
|want between characters (Character Spacing)
|or between lines (Character Leading), then
|choose OK.
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Load Subset |If your title uses only a small amount of
File |text, prepare a file that contains the text
|and load it using the Load Subset File
|command. FontWriter sets the character
|width for all characters not used in the
|subset file to zero so those characters
|will not be saved when you save the 3DO
|font. Make individual characters available
|again by using the character-width hook, or
|make all characters available with the
|Recalculate Widths command. Change the
|subset file and apply Load Subset File
|again. The 3DO FontWriter recomputes the
|subset. This command lets you create a font
|with only the characters your title needs,
|effectively reducing the size of the font
|file.
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Recalculate |Recomputes the character width so that all
Widths |parts of each character become visible. A
|dialog asks if you want to recalculate the
|entire character set, or the current
|characters. Choose Current Characters if
|you're working with a subset font and have
|edited some of the visible characters to
|make all edits visible for just the visible
|characters. Choose Entire Character Set if
|you're working with a subset font but want
|to return to the font using all characters.
|
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Get Font |Displays style and size information about
Info |the font.
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