FontXChange Help - Settings

Settings

The FontXChange Settings panel provides groups of related options that allow you to configure many of the features in FontXChange. You can open the Settings panel by clicking the Settings button on the tool bar of the FontXChange main window.

The Conversion Encoding popup menu sets the font encoding used when converting fonts.
All text printed or displayed by a computer is made up of computer codes. Font encoding is used to translate the codes into character images (or "glyphs") contained in the font. A font's encoding is like a lookup table which is used to match computer codes to the characters in the font. This is called the "encoding" of the font. Getting the right encoding can make the difference between pressing a key and getting the right character or the wrong character.
FontXChange provides these encoding options:

- Keep Original Encoding This encoding option will cause FontXChange to use the same encoding in the converted font that was used in the original font file. This is useful when the font is being converted to a format that will be used on the same computer platform (e.g. Macintosh, Windows, etc.) as the original font file.
- Automatically Choose Best Encoding This encoding option will cause FontXChange to choose an encoding for the converted font that works best for the selected platform and format.
- Adobe Standard Encoding This encoding option will cause FontXChange to use the encoding that Adobe uses in their Type 1 PostScript fonts. This encoding is limited to fonts that have 255 characters or less.
- Macintosh Standard (MacRoman) This encoding option will cause FontXChange to use the encoding that is the default on the Macintosh platform and is very similar to the Adobe Standard Encoding. This encoding is useful when you are converted fonts that will be used on a Macintosh platform.
- Windows Standard (ANSI) This encoding option will cause FontXChange to use the encoding that is the default on the Windows platform. This encoding is useful when you are converting fonts that will be used on a Windows platform.
- Unicode Encoding (ISO 10646-1) This encoding option will cause FontXChange to use the encoding that will accommodate thousands of characters in a single font file. This is useful for OpenType fonts that will be used on Macintosh or Windows platforms.
- Latin 1 (ISO 8859-15) Western Europe (with Euro) - Traditional encoding for Western European characters.
- Latin 2 (ISO 8859-2) Central Eastern Europe - Encoding for Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Slovnian
- Latin 3 (ISO 8859-3) Southern European - Encoding for Esperanto, Maltese
- Latin 4 (ISO 8859-4) Northern European - Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Greenlandic, Lappish
- Latin 5 (ISO 8859-9) Turkish
- Latin 6 (ISO 8859-10) Nordic
- Latin 7 (ISO 8859-13) Baltic
- Latin 8 (ISO 8859-14) Celtic (Gaelic & Welsh)
- ISO 8859-5 Cryllic
- ISO 8859-6 Arabic
- ISO 8859-7 Greek
- ISO 8859-8 Hebrew & Yiddish
- TIS 620 (ISO 8859-11) Thai
- KOI8-R Cryllic
- Symbol
- TeX Base

The Create Folders For Converted Fonts checkbox allows FontXChange to create font named folders for font files as they are converted into the selected output folder.
The Overwrite Existing Files checkbox allows FontXChange to replace any font files that have the same file name as the new converted font file and is in the same folder as the selected conversion folder. If this option is unchecked, FontXChange will add a number to the new filename instead of overwriting the existing file.
The Automatically Check for Software Updates checkbox allows FontXChange to check for any software updates. When checked, FontXChange will automatically alert you when a FontXChange update is available and ready for download.

The Software Update feature in FontXChange requires an internet connection. When there is no internet connection available, FontXChange will not check for updates.

Font Naming Options
These options set how FontXChange names a converted font. The font name is used in application font menus when a font is installed.
The Use Font PostScript Name option allows FontXChange to name a font using it's PostScript name (e.g. "Helvetica-BoldItalic"). Using this option will cause fonts to be shown in most application font menus as individual fonts:
The Use Family Name option allows FontXChange to name a font using it's family name (e.g. "Helvetica Bold Italic."). Using this option will cause fonts to be shown in most application font menus as a group of related fonts:
Windows Font Options
The Windows font options group provides features related to PostSCript font conversion for the Windows operating system.
The Generate Binary Format option allows FontXChange to create a PostScript font file as a binary file.
The Generate ASCII Format option allows FontXChange to create a PostScript font file as a text (i.e. "ASCII") file.
The Always Generate .AFM file option allows FontXChange to also create a font metrics file.

Web Font Options
These options provide features related to web font conversion.
The Generate Sample HTML File checkbox allows FontXChange to create a web page that shows a sample of the converted web font. The HTML file is saved in the same folder as the converted font.
The Show Sample HTML File checkbox allows FontXChange to automatically open the generated sample HTML file in your default web browser.

SEE ALSO
FontXChange Overview