Gerber OMEGA CP Reference Manual page 572

558 Chapter 50:
Designing and Building Your Own Fonts
10 Make a note of the tool size used to generate the clean out tool path. You will enter the
same tool size in the Default Clean Out Info dialog box in ART Path when you are
generating the clean out tool path that is used to cut the font.
11 In ART Path, click File > Save As Plot to save the file as a PLT file so that it can be
brought back into Composer.
To process a clean out font in Font Designer
1 In the Composer program, open the PLT file created in ART Path.
2 Select each character individually and save it to its own PLT file using the Copy To
command. See "Saving character groups" for more information.
3 Process the font characters through the Font Designer program by following the
procedure in the section, "Building the Font."
Converting URW fonts
Font Designer allows you to build OMEGA fonts consisting of URW character data and URW
kerning.
Note: The URW fonts are purchased from URW and must be in BE (Bezier) format when
ordered for OMEGA. Any other formats will not work with Font Designer.
A single URW font may be received in two parts, as two separate files, on the same disk. One
file contains the character design and is shown on the disk with a BE (Bezier) extension. The
second file contains the same font with an SP (Spacing) extension. The SP file controls the
character spacing and may or may not contain specific kerning factors.
Consider the following points before you order URW fonts:
♦ URW fonts must be purchased in BE format.
♦ If URW kern simulation is desired, then both BE and SP files are required.
♦ If URW with Gerber kerning or traditional spacing is desired, only the BE file is
required.
♦ URW fonts containing both the SP and BE files must have matching resolution. See
your URW dealer for details.
♦ A side-bearing width table and either a long or short kerning table must be included
when ordering the SP file. Omission of these tables may result in improper URW
spacing.
A URW font must have its own subdirectory for processing. Create a subdirectory under the
directory and copy the URW files into it. The URW font files must be the only files in the
C:\Jobs
subdirectory. Once you have built the font, the subdirectory is no longer needed and you can
delete it. If you want to reuse the directory for another font, you must first delete all the files it
contains, including work files created during Font Designer processing.
Note: You may only copy one URW font to the URW Font folder. If you copy more than one
URW font into the folder, Font Designer will display an error message.