Delete glyphs in Type 3.0 demo

[gopher13]

Hi,

In Glyphs->Delete glyphs, I am only able to change the lower index of the range to delete .. the upper range is unchangeable/greyed-out and is the largest glyph index of my ttf file. Is there a way to delete a smaller range that does not go to the highest index?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,

Andrew

[Allan Murray]

For the end glyphs you can use the Gylphs>>Delete Glyphs function.

To remove any middle-range glyphs you have to unmap and clear the glyph*. This removes the character from the font. It will leave an empty glyph "slot" which is not associated with any character. If you want to add glyphs at a later stage, you can use the empty slots - because glyphs do not have to be stored in any particular order.

If you have a large number of glyphs to remove, then you can select a range of glyphs in the mapping window, then press the "unmap" button to unmap them all. You can also create an action script that just contains the command:
clear
then you can also run this over any range of glyhs to remove the contours.

Allan

* The font file specification is designed so that empty, unmapped glyphs will not consume any file-space.