[Ann] IndyFont Demo: make your own (1 character) font

Hi Marc & Jongware,

This thread caught my eye when it first came out.

I was wondering what OTF features it will have in the final version.

If not included at present take them as a feature request to include in version 1.01

The bellow are important to me, as I mostly work with right to left complex scripts - i.e. Hebrew,

But there's a lot of Chinese and Arabs out there who are also quite complex, so I'm sure they would also like these features, not to mention some nice Ukrainians, Germans and some great French and Dutch blokes that occasionally roam around this forum.

1) Assign the language block of the font.

I don't want to have to look through all the English fonts to find my Hebrew font, also It can well be that the fonts won't type anything unless the correct language is set. This can be a major flaw in the font.

2) I want to be able to include multiple languages in a font so that I can have English and Hebrew text without having to change fonts.

3) If I am feeling lazy, which happens occasionally, and can't be bothered to create yet another English font I would like to be able to allocate an English font that should be used for typing English while on my Hebrew font.

4) Need to be able to tag 'marks' for diacritics with decent kerning feature for different types of marks and not just letters.

5) Discretionary ligatures "dlig" and Character composition "ccmp" tags

6) Right to left control characters

7) The marks kerning is very important and substitutions is very important to me.

This is an example of the Hebrew letter Shin with a real collection  of diacritics marks. The main letter is in black the 4 different diacritics marks are colored here to show each different one.

Regards Trevor

Hi Theunis,

Still trying to communicate with you by e-mail, but you do not seem to receive anything.

Please, use your PM Inbox to read my messages.

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Marc

This looks great. One question : I see that IndyFonts stores the fonts within InDesign, rather than filling the system OS fonts with niche custom fonts that make no sense outside of InDesign. Great feature. Is it possible to keep the font data within the InDesign file, or, within a user's folder?

I'm thinking of cases where an InDesign template is to be worked on by people on one of those tightly controlled corporate networks (e.g. VDI networks) where software and OS files are all shared from a tightly-controlled central server. If the InDesign install itself is on a server like this (e.g. via something like Citrix), or, if the person finalising the document is editting it in InCopy, is it possible to create the custom IndyFont font in a way that they can either use, or drop in to the document? (e.g. if they can save the font to some user-specific settings folder they have access to if they don't have rights to cause changes to files in the central InDesign install).

Does that question make sense? Embedding would be ideal for shared files in cases like this, but I think I saw somewhere that no fonts can ever be embedded in an InDesign file (could be wrong). (that said, it's possible to define fonts as SVG/JS using things like Cufon, so maybe fonts created in IndyFont could be sort-of-embedded that way?)