SigMaker 3 for Macintosh User Manual
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1. 15 17 53 Style Name Reg ular 29 30 In both the Basic and Advanced modes the resulting font information is displayed as shown below Updated font information record Family Name Arial Black New Display Name Arial Black New Regular Postscript Name ArialBlackNew Copyright EULA show To see the copyright information and the end user license agreement EULA for the original font click on the Copyright EULA Show link You may edit this information if the Create a new single glyph font option was selected After you change or enter a new font family name click on the Next button to save your font Defining a Glyphlet If you want to create a SING glyphlet from your image choose the following option at the Set Font Names step fel Create SING glyphlet works with Adobe InDesign CS2 and newer Then proceed with defining the glyphlet options What are Glyphlets A SING glyphlet is an extension to the OpenType font format developed by Adobe It allows you to add supplemental glyphs to an existing OpenType font without actually editing the font A SING glyphlet is a very small OpenType font that contains the outlines for a single glyph and several tables including two with details about the glyphlet and metadata Glyphlet is always connected to the existing font that must be installed Currently glyphlets are only supported in Adobe InDesign for Japanese but it is very possible that other applications will support t2. are supported in Cocoa applications Windows TrueType OpenType TT fonts usually having ttf extension These fonts may contain additional data for OpenType features Windows OpenType PS PostScript flavored fonts usually having otf extension These fonts also contain additional data for OpenType features For more reference please download and read TrueType OpenType and Type 1 What s the difference http www font to downloads documents TT_PS_OT pdf by Thomas Phinney Preparing Source Images In SigMaker you can use the following sources of images e An image file in TIFF PNG JPEG GIF or PICT format e An image file in vector EPS format e The Macintosh Clipboard You also can prepare your individual glyph image printed or written on paper and scan it in a scanner then export in TIFF PNG JPEG GIF or PICT format for SigMaker TIFF format is preferred while JPEG is not recommended Note that SigMaker will open not only black amp white bitmaps but also color or grayscale images However color or grayscale will be converted to BkW for insertion into the font since TrueType and OpenType fonts support only black amp white 15 16 Preparing the Source Image for Scanning The scanning stage is very critical for the quality of the result so please read this section carefully and take the time to experiment with your scanner and adjust the scanning sequence for the best results To get best results we recommend that yo
3. image click on the Next button to proceed 21 Selecting the Character Every character in a font usually has its own position defined by the Unicode index and the font character map To create a fontlet or add a new glyph to an existing font you must select the place for it in the font This is what you do in the next step 660 SigMaker 3 Select Glyph Position Y Select the characteroey that will be used far your gph if you cheeses BIL Ek meting character it wal bo replaced fy your nw ghph Tou can nige aggegn your giy ta an empty character position Click and hold the mouse button on a character cell to see nore indonmnation ji mele H A Q a q ME PRICE BCI bic ris EE Current Unicode OCD The table represents the character set of the font selected in the first step If no font was selected you will see gray characters 22 The character which has Unicode 007E is selected by default Leave it selected or click on another character that will be used for your custom symbol The Unicode of the selected character will appear below the table If you choose an existing character it will be replaced on export I e the old character will disappear from the font To add a character click on the grey character cell You also can search for characters by entering their Unicode indexes in the Go to Unicode field end pressing the ENTER key When finished click on the Next bu
4. SigMaker 3 for Macintosh User Manual SigMaker 3 user manual edition 3 0 03 09 2007 Copyright 1992 2007 by Fontlab Ltd All rights reserved Editors Sasha Petrov Adam Twardoch Ted Harrison Yuri Yarmola Cover illustration Pawet Jonca pejot com No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written consent of the publisher Any software referred to herein is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of such license AsiaFont Studio BitFonter CompoCompiler FONmaker FogLamp FontFlasher FontLab ScanFont SigMaker TransType TypeTool FontAudit VectorPaint and the FontLab logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Fontlab Ltd in the United States and or other countries Apple the Apple Logo Mac Mac OS Macintosh and TrueType are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc registered in the United States and other countries Adobe PostScript Photoshop Type Manager Illustrator Macromedia Fontographer Flash and Freehand are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions OpenType Windows Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows XP and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries IBM is a regis
5. ace is a particular artwork of an alphabet a set of glyphs that are designed with a common graphic idea in mind A font is a digital file or a few files that holds a digital representation of a typeface A font contains an organized collection of glyphs along with some additional information that defines the spatial relations between the glyphs metrics and kerning as well as some central parameters such as names copyright information linespacing values etc font header Fontlet A font in TrueType OpenType TT or OpenType PS format containing only the outlines for a single glyph Fontlets are installed on the system and work just like other fonts 39 40 Encoding When the user presses a key or a combination of keys on a keyboard a numerical code is stored in the computer s memory This code represents a character an abstract unit of writing A series of such codes forms a string of text Every keystroke stands for a different character so every character uses a different numerical code also called codepoint Operating systems and applications need to know which number represents what character otherwise a spelling checker couldn t recognize words that you re typing So each operating system and each application uses a list that maps characters to numerical codes This mapping is called text encoding In the past different computers used different text encoding standards so called codepages so that the lett
6. al knowledge The general workflow includes 6 simple steps 1 Select the source font in which to include your signature You may skip this step if you are going to create a single glyph font 2 Open the saved image of your signature or paste it from the Clipboard and make any changes to the image including cropping 3 Select the character code that will be used for your glyph 4 Adjust the dimensions and position of the image to fit the other glyphs in the font 5 Name the font or define a glyphlet 6 Select the output format and save the font or SING glyphlet to the disk 10 When you start SigMaker you can see the Workflow toolbar containing all these steps Workflow Select Font Font nra Type na Path n a Click on the corresponding numbered button to get directly to the step you need or select the step in the Main window But we recommend you follow the original steps order by clicking on the Next button located in the bottom right corner of the Main window gt Selecting the Source Font If you are going to create a single glyph font fontlet you do not need to select the existing font and may just proceed to the next step Otherwise if you want to add your image to an existing font choose among Select Installed Font and Select Custom Font options Select Font Y Select the font to which you wall add your symbol You can choose any font that la installed on your system of you can choo
7. any application allowing you to select fonts in the Font menu To make all options available go to the first step choose the font and then return back to the current step Naming the Font If you are going to create a new single glyph font or add your image to an existing font check one of these two options at the Set Font Names step Choose what you want to do with your glyph Create a modified version of the selected font with your glyph added check the font s EULA for possible restrictions Create a new single glyph font Renaming the font at this step is necessary so that you don t overwrite the original font and to let the system distinguish the two different fonts You may choose to not rename the font but this will cause font conflicts and even may result in system crashes We recommend that you always name your new fonts differently To name your new font type in the New Family Name field If an existing font was selected in the first step you may just add some characters to the original Family name f Basic Options Advanced Options Original family name Arial Black New family name Arial Black New Change the family name to distinguish the modihed font from the original To get more control you may switch to the Advanced Options mode Basic Options f Advanced Options Family Name Arial Black New Display Name Arial Black New Regular TT Unique Name M2 Arial Black New Regular 2007 6
8. button D The quick brown fox jumps o ver the lazy dog Arial Black The standard Macintosh File Open dialog appears letting you find and select the font on your hard disk 2 Choose the font and click on Open The selected font will appear in the list 3 Click on the font name in the list and the font preview will appear at the right 4 Now double click on the font name or the appropriate style in the list or just click on the Next button The font will be read and selected for work You will see the result in the Workflow panel a Note SigMaker will not open Type fonts 13 14 What Are Type 1 TrueType and OpenType Fonts 1 Type 1 or PostScript fonts usually having pfb extension with supplementary files afm inf pfm This font format uses cubic b spline mathematics to describe glyph outlines It is developed and promulgated by Adobe Systems SigMaker does not work with this kind of fonts Traditional Macintosh TrueType font suitcases with sfnt resources Each sfnt resource is a font One suitcase may contain several sfnt resources united in a font family or representing different font families Data fork based Macintosh TrueType fonts usually having a dfont extension This is almost the same format as the previous one with one exception these fonts may contain additional data for use with ATSUI Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging These fonts are widely presented among system fonts in Mac OS X and
9. dd a new property record Remove the currently selected property record gt Remove all property records Automatically fill the list of property records To add a new name record click on the F button on a toolbar select property record options using the controls below the list and type in the record content To remove a record select it in the list and click on the button Click on the button to remove all property records After you set the advanced glyphlet options click on the Close button and then on the Next button to go to the last step 33 34 Saving the Font To save your new font or SING glyphlet to the disk set the file destination and name in the edit box Save Font Y Chipre the doared location of the font gh phi fle from the drop down list of select a detonation folder ung the Browse button Change the demmed hlename if nesessary Select new font destination Use the Browse button to open a dialog Users fontlab Library Fonts Arial Black New C Browse To change the destination and or format for the font click on the Browse button or select it in the dropdown list Desktop User Fonts Folder User Documents Folder System Fonts Folder If you select the system Fonts folder the new font will be saved there and activated The same with the user Fonts folder If you choose to save the font in another place on the disk you may turn on the Activate Font option to temporarily activat
10. e the font In this case the font will be deactivated after a system restart And finally click on the Next button to export the font with your custom glyph or the glyphlet SigMaker will save the font in the original font format of the source font and inform you of the result You have successfully added your symbol to the font De you want to start over You may choose to start over and add the same image to another font or another image to the same original or your new font If you want to quit SigMaker click on the No button 35 Appendix A Glossary Let us define some terms that may help understanding SigMaker and fonts in general Character The minimal atomic unit of writing with a clearly defined identity a part of the alphabet a letter a digit an ideogram a symbol Any image that can be recognized as having the same meaning represents the same character AACGAR All the images above represent the character A Please note that sometimes identical images represent different characters A Latin A A Cyrillic A A Greek Alpha Characters are abstract beings without a particular strictly defined image Computers store characters in their memory using numerical codes A text file contains sequences of such codes that represent strings of characters 38 Glyph The basic atomic element of a font the particular image that is being shown on screen or printed The glyph rep
11. er A was stored as number 142 in one program and as number 128 in another program Modern operating systems and applications encode text using the international Unicode Standard which assigns a unique numerical codepoint to every character used in writing by humankind In Unicode A always uses the code U 00C4 which is hexadecimal for 196 Whenever the text is printed or displayed on the screen the computer looks inside the font file and finds out which character codes correspond to which glyphs so that the series of abstract character codes can be visualized using some specific images of letters digits and other symbols Every font includes a mapping of character codes to glyphs this mapping is called the font encoding sometimes encoding vector or in this manual just encoding These days most font formats use the Unicode Standard as basis for their font encoding but it is possible to produce fonts that are encoded using the older codepages It is even possible to have several different encoding vectors in one font so that both old and modern applications can work with it Some More Definitions BMP the standard graphics file format on Windows compatible computers EPS Encapsulated PostScript Image file format that supports both vector graphics and bitmap images GIF Graphic Interchange Format A common format for image files often used on the WWW Resolution is limited to 256 colors OpenT
12. ertoire of a font is a collection of all glyphs contained in this particular font Typically one glyph is a graphical representation of one character However the same font can include several glyphs that are different graphical representations of the same character ttt Also one glyph can represent several characters for example in a ligature Characters are the abstract conceptual components of a text while glyphs are the particular visual components of a text fixed in some form In addition to the visual appearance the glyph image a glyph also has some digital representation A glyph can be represented by a bitmap capable of reproducing the glyph image only in one specific size More commonly a glyph consists of outlines that are scalable so that they can reproduce the glyph image in any size Glyphlet A SING glyphlet is a very small OpenType font that contains the outlines for a single glyph and several tables including two with details about the glyphlet and metadata A glyphlet is always connected to an existing font that must be installed Currently glyphlets are only supported in Adobe InDesign for Japanese but it is very possible that other applications will support this new technology in the near future You can find more information about the SING architecture at the Adobe site http www adobe com products indesign sing gaiji html http www adobe com products indesign sing_gaiji html Font A typef
13. ght will enlarge the glyph Do not enlarge your glyph too much or it might be cropped during the export To change the glyph width use the Set Symbol Width slider You can also use the presets in the dropdown lists at the right of the sliders Scale Image Preview on Right F Set Symbol Width s v Full Width Half Width Probortional Width Generic Width EEE Ez For example the Proportional Width option is a good choice after you have scaled the image The Full Width and Half Width options are useful when working with CJK characters Full Width Half Width To enlarge or reduce the whole preview use this control When finished with the glyph image size and width click on Next to go forward 27 28 Defining the Output At the Set Font Names step you must choose the output format for your image Set Font Names vy Choose what you want to do with your ghph f Create a modified version of the selected font with your glyph added check the font s EULA for possible restrictions J Create a new single glyph font _ Create SING glyphlet works with Adobe InDesign C52 and newer As you can see you have 3 options available here But if you skipped the first step and did not select a source font you then can only create a new single glyph font fontlet f Create a new single glyph font A single glyph font is a TrueType or OpenType font containing only one glyph This font can be used in
14. higher than the real optical scanning resolution of your scanner The scanning software generates additional information necessary to fill the increased resolution automatically For SigMaker s purposes this is not necessary and can significantly decrease the quality of the resulting outlines Preparing Vector EPS Images You can draw your signature using any application capable of saving your image in outline vector EPS format such as Illustrator or FreeHand As with bitmap images the vector image should be large enough to be imported without distortion see the image below where the page size is set to A4 format When drawing remember to assign some kind of fill to all your drawings since SigMaker will not import paths with no fill selection Also remember that your image should never exceed the bottom or the top of the document size 17 18 Sometimes you may need to change the default options for output in the application s Preferences dialog For example in Illustrator for Macintosh you should switch on the AICB option in the Preferences gt Files amp Clipboard settings which is off by default Preferences Files amp Clipboard Files an Append Extension Ask When Saving B Cancel Update Links Ask When Modified i ravlo Us if Use Low Resolution Proxy for Linked EPS Next Clipboard Copy As _ POF AICB no transparency support f Preserve Paths Preserve Appeara
15. his new technology in the near future You can find more information about the SING architecture at the Adobe site http www adobe com products indesign sing _gaiji html 31 32 Defining Glyphlet Options To create a glyphlet from your image you might just define some basic options for it G Basic Options Advanced Options Copyright Define the basic glyphlet properties here Glyphlet Name and the Copyright string To get more control you may switch to the Advanced Options mode and click on the Edit Advanced Settings button The Advanced SING Options dialog box appears Advanced SING options Label ID Content 18 Latin characters other than space FFFO a furial Black en 5 200 70704T1543120 1 Serif Mincho Song Sung Fangseng Myungjo Myeongjal 400 Normal Regular Wa 5 Medium normal None Not an update Replacement Additional variant ALG lial Nanuet 0 General visual and identifying string entries Mojikumi JIS X 4015 1995 class Content Unique Name MONO Arial Hack OO007E_0 The dialog box contains the list of glyphlet properties and several controls that let you define records in the list To learn more about glyphlet properties please use this link http partners adobe com public developer opentype gdk topic html Above the list there is a toolbar that you can use to modify the list add or remove records or generate records automatically A
16. llows you to put your signature or any other symbol into a new font or even add it to any Macintosh font The key features of SigMaker 3 are e Create a new font from an outline or bitmap image e Add an image to a copy of any installed font e Save an image as a SING glyphlet for use in Adobe InDesign System Requirements The Macintosh version of SigMaker requires one of the following hardware and software configurations A Power PC or Intel based Macintosh with Mac OS X v 10 2 or later installed v 10 4 is recommended At least 20Mb of free space on the hard disk drive and at least 64 MB RAM SigMaker will start on 32 MB RAM but you will need more RAM to open bigger fonts Installing SigMaker To install SigMaker on Macintosh 1 Quit all open applications and disable any antivirus utilities that may prevent proper installation 2 Run the SigMaker Installer 3 Follow the on screen instructions The installer will put all the necessary files into the Applications SigMaker3 folder by default Note that you need to have enough user privileges to install software on Mac OS X Using SigMaker With SigMaker you can create new single glyph fonts we will call them fontlets containing only one glyph e g your signature or any other custom image You also can create new fonts by adding your signature to existing TrueType and OpenType fonts installed on the system Using SigMaker is very easy and doesn t require any speci
17. nce When you finish drawing your image in Illustrator choose File gt Save As or File gt Export and save the document in EPS Version 8 or 10 format You also can just copy your drawing onto the Clipboard and then paste it from the Clipboard in SigMaker Selecting an Image This step is the most important one here you are selecting what will be processed and exported as a new font or a glyphlet by SigMaker 2 Dar Select and Prepare Image Y Dr an Gre om a P s or paste i irom thy ciphogrd Use the toclbar buttons te tip rotate or invert your image li you need only a part of the image select it wath the Crop topl Open Image Bae B L You have selected the image from file SugnatureRGB tif lt gt Here you can open the prepared image file in almost any known bitmap format TIFF PNG JPEG PICT formats are supported or outline EPS format which is typically created in vector editing applications such as Adobe Illustrator You can also paste an image from the Clipboard where it is copied from any bitmap editing application such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Draw 19 20 Simply click on the appropriate button Open Image Paste From Clipboard 4 If the image is imported or pasted correctly then you will see it in the editing area for further adjustments The Workflow panel will contain information about the image Workflow Select and Prepare Image Image S
18. se a custom font from a font hile Click once on a font name to see its preview Double click on a font to select and open it Select Installed Font Select Custom Font 11 Working with installed fonts The window contains a list of the fonts installed on the system Click on the font name in the list and the font preview will appear at the right i leLothi a ey PEAST The quick brown fox jumps o gt Arial ver the lazy dog Arial Black Ii Arial Narrow Arial Rounded MT Bold p Baskerville Arial Black Biaukai Big Caslon Brush Script MT Bukvica Capitals Chalkboard Charcoal Chicago b Cochin 7 To load the font for adding a new glyph double click on the font name or the appropriate style in the list or simply click on the Next button The font will be chosen for work You will see the result in the Workflow panel Workflow Select Font Font Arial Black Type Suitcase Pathe Library Fonts Arial Black The first step button is fully green now which means the font is selected and you can proceed to the next step a Note If some fonts installed in the system cannot be loaded try the second method described below after copying the font to your Desktop 12 Working with fonts that are not installed Sometimes you need to add a picture to a font that is not installed on your system To select a font which is not installed 1 Click on the Select Custom Font option and then on the Select Custom Font
19. tered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation Other brand or product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders THIS PUBLICATION AND THE INFORMATION HEREIN IS FURNISHED AS IS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY FONTLAB LTD FONTLAB LTD ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WITH RESPECT TO THIS PUBLICATION AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSES AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS This document was created by Fontlab Lid http www fontlab com Contents INTRODUCTION System Requirements Installing SigMaker USING SIGMAKER Selecting the Source Font Preparing Source Images Preparing the Source Image for Scanning Scanning an Image Preparing Vector EPS Images Selecting an Image Editing an Image Selecting the Character Adjusting Glyph Size and Width Defining the Output Naming the Font Defining a Glyphlet What are Glyphlets Defining Glyphlet Options Saving the Font APPENDIX A GLOSSARY Character Glyph Glyphlet Font Fontlet Encoding Some More Definitions 11 15 16 17 19 21 22 24 28 29 31 31 32 34 Introduction Thank you for purchasing SigMaker 3 a powerful utility for creating fonts from any image you drawn or scanned It a
20. tton to proceed a Note Use the Keyboard Viewer utility from the Input menu in Mac OS X to learn how to access certain characters from your keyboard If the Input menu is not visible go to System Preferences gt International click on the Input Menu and switch on the Show input menu in menu bar option 23 24 Adjusting Glyph Size and Width Since the dimensions of your image may be different it may not fit with the selected font The Position Image step is needed to make your image fit with other glyphs in the font OAM SigMaker 3 Position Image Y Use sliders and preset buttons to change size and width of the image Drag the image with the left mouse button to set Ra position i E F Preview on Left Scale Image Preview on Right Set Symbol Width SE WI lt gt Your custom glyph is shown here between two other glyphs from the font as if it was used in text This lets you see the dimensions of the glyph in comparison with its neighbors You can change the left and right glyph neighbors by typing them in the corresponding text fields If you have not selected a font in the first step you will see the neighbors are empty 25 26 To move the glyph vertically or horizontally move the mouse cursor to the image and drag it with the mouse button pressed Hold the SH rr key to constrain the direction To enlarge or reduce the glyph use the Scale Image slider dragging the slider to the ri
21. u prepare a source image on paper with the following characteristics in mind e The paper must be white and smooth e The images of characters or symbols that you want to place into a font must be large The real size of the symbol that you want to scan depends on the optical resolution of your scanner We recommend that the size of the symbol be at least 1 inch 2 5 cm in height If you want to get a very precise result you can prepare a bigger glyph even one huge glyph on a page SigMaker can process such a glyph but our experiments have shown that glyphs bigger than mentioned above do not really improve the quality of the resulting outlines e Ifyou want to scan your signature write it as usual The more natural it is the better the result But do not choose a thin pen A standard 0 7mm pen is best e Never use a pencil The image will look contrasted on paper but not when scanned As a result you will get noise in the black areas of the image and holes in the glyphs strokes Scanning an Image We recommend that you select 600 dpi as the default scanning resolution If you scan a small picture increase the scanning resolution if the source picture is big more than 1 inch in height 300 400 dpi will be enough You may scan the source picture in grayscale or color mode Do not choose a resolution that is higher than the optical resolution of your scanner Some scanner software lets you choose a resolution that is several times
22. udqnatureRGB tif Type TIFF Path Vobumes Work HO Documents for testing Signatures If something is wrong the appropriate error message will appear Editing an Image After the image is imported or pasted correctly you can start working with it in the editing area There are 8 toolbar buttons available above the editing area Flip Horizontal Makes a mirror transformation in the horizontal direction Flip Vertical Makes a mirror transformation in the vertical direction Rotate 90 CW Rotates the image 90 degrees clockwise Rotate 90 CCW Rotates the image 90 degrees counter clockwise Invert Inverts the image Crop Allows you to select part of the image Zoom in a Enlarges the image view Zoom out Reduces the image view Use the Flip and Rotate tools to quickly change your image orientation Just click on the corresponding tool button once To invert colors click on the Invert tool button To view the image enlarged select the Zoom in tool move the mouse pointer to one of the corners of the rectangular area that you want to zoom on and press the mouse button Then holding the mouse button down define the zoom in area by dragging the cursor to form a rectangle Release the button and the new zoom mode will be selected If you see that only part of the image is needed you may select it with the Crop tool We recommend you crop your image only after you ve done all other modifications When finished editing the
23. ype OpenType font format jointly developed by Microsoft and Adobe OpenType fonts can be TrueType flavored we call them OpenType TT fonts and PostScript flavored OpenType PS fonts Both are Unicode encoded and support special features like swashes contextual forms ligatures etc PNG Portable Network Graphics A standard graphics file format designed for WWW to replace the GIF file format RGB the color model in which red green and blue are combined in various ways to reproduce other colors on the monitor TIFF Tagged Image File Format Uncompressed image file format for PC and Macintosh TrueType a font format using quadratic b spline mathematics to describe glyph outlines Developed and promulgated by Microsoft and Apple Computer We use the term Windows TrueType OpenType TT for Windows TrueType fonts here in the Manual Windows TrueType fonts containing embedded bitmaps are called OpenType SBIT fonts Type 1 Adobe Type 1 PostScript Type 1 a font format using cubic b spline mathematics to describe glyph outlines Developed and promulgated by Adobe Systems 41
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