Gerber OMEGA CP Reference Manual page 604

590 Chapter 50:
Designing and Building Your Own Fonts
To set the kerning
1 Click Setup! The Font Designer Status Box opens and builds the font.
2 The Kern Setup dialog box opens. Click the down arrow to scroll through the
characters in the font.
3 Choose a character. The character displays in the character preview box.
4 Kern each character by turning on or off the Kern Right and Kern Left check boxes.
5 Click Preference to save the current kern settings for the entire font. A message
appears asking if you wish to save the kern settings. Click OK.
6 Or, click GSP Defaults. The words
message appears asking if you wish to replace the current settings with GSP defaults.
7 Click OK to enter the settings.
To process the font
1 After setting the directory and entering the font
settings, click Process! to begin building the font.
The Kern Process dialog box opens. Adjust the
Kern Factor and number of passes.
2 Click Process. A status box opens and installs the
font.
3 A
Font construction is complete
Click OK.
4 Close the Font Designer program.
To access the font in Composer
1 Click Start > Programs > GSP OMEGA > Composer.
2 Click the TOWS or Enter/Edit Text tool.
3 Enter 10" (254 mm) as the height of the characters. The height must be the same every
time you use that clean out font.
4 Click the desired font from the font list.
5 If using Enter/Edit Text, click F11/Change to set the selected font for text entry.
6 Access the desired clean out characters and save the file.
7 Close the Composer program.
Note: Only the characters processed through Font Designer can be accessed in Composer. The
keyboard in the sample font beeps when you press keys for characters not processed.
8 The clean out characters can be machined using the ART Path program and a router.
and appear beside the PLT files and a
ON OFF
message displays.