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Need help with making caps fonts, please? - doestergaard - 2012-03-13
I have tried to search for a program for OS X that can edit fonts to a caps version only. As Lion have dropped Rosetta, I can't seem to find any tool, that can handle this, because they are ppc applications. I therefore hope that someone can help me making a caps version of a font i'm going to use for my upcoming skin.
The user will be credited.
Thank you in advance!
/Daniel
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - pecinko - 2012-03-13
[UPPERCASE]
Or you can't use it for some reason?
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - doestergaard - 2012-03-13
(2012-03-13, 13:56)pecinko Wrote: [UPPERCASE]
Or you can't use it for some reason?
Sorry, have to more specific:
The [UPPERCASE] works fine, but when you have special characters (like éúæøå, etc), xbmc displays them in lowercase, even though uppercase is applied.
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - pecinko - 2012-03-13
(2012-03-13, 14:00)doestergaard Wrote: Sorry, have to more specific:
The [UPPERCASE] works fine, but when you have special characters (like éúæøå, etc), xbmc displays them in lowercase, even though uppercase is applied.
I see. Unfortunatelly don't know what could be used for font alterations on OS X
On a side note, I have taken a look at your WIP and IMHO (that might not be relevant at all) it would look very nice if you use nice regular font. Just a thought, it's your work and decisions, naturally.
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - ronie - 2012-03-13
i use fontforge on linux, it may also work on osx:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/mac-install.html
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - doestergaard - 2012-03-13
(2012-03-13, 20:09)ronie Wrote: i use fontforge on linux, it may also work on osx:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/mac-install.html
Tried it out, but it failed upon installation. The only way might be to install linux in a virtual environment.
Thanks, ronie
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - Sranshaft - 2012-03-14
FontLab Studio says it should be Lion-ready from their website.
http://www.fontlab.com/
Ouch... $699. Sorry.
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - filigran - 2012-03-14
Found DoubleType with a quick google, not sure what it can do, but might work: http://sourceforge.net/projects/doubletype/
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - Maxoo - 2012-03-15
Easiest way would be to correct that uppercase bug, isn't it ?
I mean, an uppercase 'é' should be 'E', not 'é'.
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - stoli - 2012-03-15
It's been around for quite some time: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/11067 Here's an example in Confluence just by adding the UPPERCASE tag:
RE: Need help with making caps fonts, please? - Hitcher - 2012-03-15
You can always uppercase them in your strings.xml first.