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Option de menu "Charger police Symmetry (*.CFF)"

En standard, comme vous pourrez le constater dans le menu déroulant Police, il n’y a qu’un nombre limité des polices de caractères qui est affiché en standard. Si vous voulez vous servir de n’import quelle autre police de caractères Symmetry à votre disposition, il faut importer ces polices d’abord. Si vous voulez avoir d’autres (ou plus de) polices disponibles en standard en Symmetry ? Voous pouvez également changer la liste des polices dans le menu Préférences.

En ce moment, il ya 45 polices de caractères Symmetry disponibles dans le logiciel, dont la plupart des polices Européennes classiques. De plus, la liste de polices contient une police Russe (Cyrillique) et une Grecque .


Details

  • Acces the Import Cipher Font through the Text menu.
  • Select the font style of your choice.
  • The top half of the Load CFF font window shows a list of available fonts with a scrollbar on the side.
    The bottom half of of the window is a preview of the selected font.
  • When clicking the OK button at the bottom of the window, the selected font will be added to the Font style list at the bottom center of the main screen, and will automatically be applied to the current text line.

List of fonts

Nom de police Nom de fichier Disponible en standard Accent européens disponibles Remarques
Avalon AVALON-1L.CFF Non Oui simple trait
Baskerville Bd BASKERVILLE-OL.CFF Non Non outline
Trophy Block BLOCK-2L.CFF Non Non small caps font
BowlBall BOWLBALL-3L.CFF Non Oui small caps font
Braille BRAILLE1.CFF Non Non
Braille2 BRAILLE2.CFF Non Non
Century CENTURY-2L.CFF Non Non
CirMono CIRCLE-MONOGRAM-3L.CFF Non Non
Clarendon CLARENDON-OL.CFF Non Non outline
Com Script COMSCRPT-9L.CFF Oui Oui
Connect Script CONSCRPT-1L.CFF Non Non simple trait
Contemp 1 Line CONTEMP-1L.CFF Non Non simple trait
Russion CY CYRILLIC-1L.CFF Non N/A simple trait
DIN1451 DIN1451-1L.CFF Oui Oui simple trait
Dynamo DYNAMO.CFF Non Non
Flora Bold FLORA-BOLD-5L.CFF Non Non
Flora Normal FLORA-NORMAL-3L.CFF Oui Oui
Fritz Med FRITZMEDIUM-3L.CFF Non Non
Fritz Quad FRITZ-OL.CFF Non Non outline
Futura 1L FUTURA-1L.CFF Non Oui1) small caps font
Gothic GOTHIC-1L.CFF Non Non
Goudy Bold GOUDY-OL.CFF Non Non outline
Greek 1L GREEK-1L.CFF Non N/A
Handel HANDEL-1L.CFF Non Non
Helvetica 1 Line HELVET-1L.CFF Oui Non simple trait
3 Line Helvetica HELVET3L.CFF Oui Oui
6 Line Helvetica HELVET6L.CFF Oui Oui
Microstyle Bd MICRO.CFF Non Non
Old English 3L OLDENGLISH-3L.CFF Non Non
Optima 5L OPTIMA-5L.CFF Non Non
Upp/Low Roman ROMANUL-3L.CFF Non Oui
3 Line Roman ROMAN-UL-3L.CFF Non Oui small caps
Con.Script SCRIPT-1L.CFF Non Non simple trait
2 line script SCRIPT-2L.CFF Non Oui
Souvenir O/L SOUVENIR-OL.CFF Non Non outline
Stencil Gothic STENCIL-GOTHIC-1L.CFF Non Non Does not contain lowercase characters.
Stencil STENCIL-OL.CFF Non Non • outline
• Does not contain lowercase characters.
Stymie 1L STYMIE-1L.CFF Non Oui simple trait
Triumvirate Blk TBKOUT-OL.CFF Non Non outline
Times 3 Line TIMES-3L.CFF Non Non
Outline Times TIMES-OL.CFF Non Non outline
Triumvirate Out TRIUMVIRATE.CFF Non Non
Univers 39 UNIVERS39-2L.CFF Oui Oui
Univers 55 UNIVERS55-6L.CFF Non Oui
Victoria VICTORIA-2L.CFF Non Oui

Notes

Cipher vs. Truetype fonts

  • When choosing the Text menu, you will notice that the top two menu options allow you to import fonts: either Cipher fonts, or TrueType fonts. Both font types are fundamentally different: Cipher fonts were designed specifically for engraving purposes and come only with Symmetry and its predecessor, Cipher, while Truetype fonts are fonts for layout and printing purposes and come with a wide array of layout and design softwares, such as MS Word, CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, etc.

  • Among the available Cipher fonts, there are some outline fonts, single-line fonts, and multiple-line fonts. TrueType fonts will always start as outline fonts. If you want to engrave them, not as outline characters, but filled out, you need to apply the Object Fill and Tool dimensions menu option after typing in your text. As explained in the Object Fill and Tool dimensions in this manual, the outline of the text will consequently be filled using the “island fill” method.
    You should be aware that, in comparison with similar multiple-line fonts, filled out Trueype texts take much longer to engrave. You can slight influence this by choosing a wider cutter tip, but only to a limited degree.
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The font is small caps, but when typing lower case characters with accents, they are “real” lowercases, not small caps.
fr/symmetry/option_import_symmetry_font.1664542428.txt.gz · Last modified: 2022/09/30 14:53 by jan.vangelder