Gerber OMEGA CP Reference Manual page 588

574 Chapter 50:
Designing and Building Your Own Fonts
Note: The position and defined width of a character will effect the placement of the character
when entering text in Composer. For example, if the baseline encompasses too much white
space on either side of the character, Font Designer accepts that white space as part of the
character. When you access the font after processing, the characters will not be as close together
as they should be and may not join properly.
♦ Clean Out Font – Turn on this check box to remove character outlines. After the font is
processed in Font Designer, only the clean out tool paths remain. The clean out
characters are created in ART Path.
♦ Gerber Edge Font – Check only if you are using the GERBER EDGE to retain Edge
font attributes including fills and colors.
♦ Some Fills applied to Multiple Characters –Activate if you have applied a fill to a
character in Composer and turned on the Combine shapes check box on the Fill tab in
the Assign Colors dialog box.
♦ Long Kern Table (GRAPHIX ADVANTAGE systems only) – Turn on this check box
to use a long kern table to:
♦
duplicate URW font character spacing
♦
space GSP font characters consistently
♦ Arabic Font – Check if you are building an Arabic font for an Arabic keyboard and
Arabic Windows.
♦ Kerns – Click the Kern button to open the Set Kern Characters dialog box where you
can change the character used for kerning. See "To set the kern character" for more
information.
♦ Styles – Click Styles to open the Set Font Style dialog box where you can choose the
style category to which the font belongs. See "To set the font style" for more
information.
To enter the font settings
1 Click Start > Programs > GSP OMEGA > Font Designer.
2 Click File > Font Settings to open the Font Settings dialog box.
3 Enter a Font Title.
4 In the Font Number list box, the system automatically enters the next sequential font
number. To assign an alternate font number, type over the number displayed in the
Font Number list box.
Note: If the same number is used twice, a message appears when you are processing the font
and asks if the font with the same number should be overwritten.
5 In the Cap Height Line field, enter the capital height line value.