Saving edited fonts as font libs for later use

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How many of us make edits like this to text phrases all the time ? for the use case where we are cutting through material to make a sign or a template ? Or for some other use case ?

I do it a lot. This phrase took about 8 minutes to edit. Not counting the font related choices, bold or not or other modifier to apply, horizontal and vertical scaling and char separation; My process involves…

  • making a rectangle slicer of the correct size relative to font scale
  • dropping copies of the rectangle slicer on unique chars needing to save a center drop
  • selecting the text phrase then selecting one rectangle slicer, then using boolean subtract tool. This action automatically converts the font to paths as a group.
  • now select the next rectangle slicer and boolean subtract, repeat until all unique chars with slicers are ‘sliced’.
  • now ungroup the phrase, and group those chars that are in two pieces.
  • now copy and paste the sliced char to another same char with corner snap alignment. now delete the underlying un-sliced char. repeat for all the same chars in the phrase.
  • repeat prior step for the unique sliced chars.

Has LB ever considered a ‘font saver’ feature such that we can create text with modified fonts ?

I just spent about an hour trying to use FontForge app to edit a font, it was a nightmare, I gave up. Perhaps with a lot of practice I could modify a font, but consider also that there are bold and italic versions of the same font.

Short of LB mojo, does anyone recommend a font editor ?

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sometimes it helps to think out loud. It just occurred to me that I could save an edited phrase as the base template for that font, then cut and paste edited chars from that font into other LB projects as needed. I’d have to remember to make my font edits in the same scale (25.00), HSpace (0), VSpace(0). I can scale and space the resulting new phrases as path objects. That process would saves more than half of the steps outlined above to slice the chars. I really only use about 4 to 6 fonts with regularity.

But ‘wouldn’t it still be nice…’ to have LB mojo a new font saving feature some day, so we’re just typing text as usual :wink:

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