Digital Workshop

Hi, the client has given me a public domain font to use in an opus presentation (http://www.dafont.com/bpreplay.font)

It's an otf font. I've put it in my fonts directory, and can use it in Photoshop etc.

But it's not appearing on the Opus font list, so I can't use it within my page.

I can see other otf fonts show up in Opus - Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks, Linda

Here's the same set converted to Window's TTF under the Open Font Licence.

Would be worth emailing DW to find out about OFT support in Opus. If you do, can you let me know...

Mack

My hero ... brilliant, thanks!

Yes, I'll email DW shortly.

Many thanks, Linda

Mmmm... never as easy as I hope: installed font, typing away.

Look at the attached screenshot: I've typed a "t" then a "j"

With no space between them, they're perfect. But, add a space and the tail loop of the "j" gets cut off.



What's going wrong?

Linda

Hi Linda,

This effect has been posted about before. The lower case j has negative left metric value which causes it 'fit into' the previous letter for the want of a better phrase. It shouldn't cause the cut off in Opus as other font families also have this but it is happening.

Typography is not an area I know much about, and it may be possible to make your font behave in the same way as another that works such as Ariel. Oddly, having looked at this a little more, it appears that the space character in an Opus text box does not use the space character in the font! I created a glyph in what should be space and it doesn't appear in Opus but does in other programs.

If you're not typing much, then there is a work-around by inserting a coded space or zero-width space but this just highlights two oddities in Opus which probably needed to be looked at.

Mack

I think there's still more font problems - as soon as I apply any sort of kerning to the font, once I animate it's scale or rotation, the kerned font's edges go jagged.

Look at the attached - the first line was kerned. The other two were not.

The jaggies are very clear (and unacceptable)

So these new features are not yet useable, which is a shame - unless DW can jump in with a workround...

Linda

Not sure I'd agree.

Kerning in Opus 7 seems better than most other software on my system and damn close to PS at the same resolution. It also worked for animations.

Mack

Hi Linda,
The font is similar to Calibri; can you use that instead?

Attached Calibri image compares quite well to BPreplay font ...

Paul