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Geoffree

Symbol font doesn't display symbols
Feb 17^th, 2009, 11:02pm

I want to display tick and cross symbols which are part of the MonotypeSorts font. Load the font and select it with textFont as usual, but displaying characters "4" and "8", which represents said tick and cross, actually appears as "4" and "8". I've tried entering the character codes (52 and 56) but still no luck. Keyboard Viewer on Mac shows the correct symbols and so does typing them into a word processor with the given font.
Seems a strange behaviour. Anyone managed to display symbols? (I've tried other symbol fonts such as Webdings and still the same problem).

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Symbol font doesn't display symbols Reply #1 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 9:25am i bet there is something wrong in your code... if it shows fonts,it should show the symbols too. can you maybe post your code? i will take a look.
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Geoffree

Re: Symbol font doesn't display symbols
Reply #2 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 10:50am

Cedric wrote on Feb 20^th, 2009, 9:25am:

i bet there is something wrong in your code...
if it shows fonts,it should show the symbols too.
can you maybe post your code i will take a look.

Here's a little test sketch. Perhaps you can spot the undeliberate error! I cannot. Thanks
ps. I've tried Wingdings2 as well but the same result ... ie. the alphabetic characters are draw rather than the symbol with that particular char code.

Quote:

PFont normalFont12, fontSymbols16;

void setup() {
  size(200, 100);
  normalFont12 = loadFont("Dialog-12.vlw");
  fontSymbols16 = loadFont("MonotypeSorts-16.vlw");
}

void draw() {
      fill(color(255));
      textFont(normalFont12, 12);
      text("this should be a cross", 10, 20);
      textFont(fontSymbols16, 16);
      text(char(56), 150, 20);
      textFont(normalFont12, 12);
      text("this should be a tick", 10, 50);
      textFont(fontSymbols16, 16);
      text(char(52), 150, 50);
}

Cedric

Re: Symbol font doesn't display symbols
Reply #3 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 11:22am

Hmm ok, guess i was wrong... its not your code.
its the font file...
i found out that processing just cant read some of the fonts, mostly custom fonts, but some others too...
but i testet it with some "comic bubble symbol font" and a custom made font of vector shapes, and they both work...

But like you see, processing cant read and convert some of the fonts allready previewing them in the fontcreator. Maybe looking and testing some fonts with different crosses, solves your problem for now.

http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=45
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=407

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Geoffree

Re: Symbol font doesn't display symbols
Reply #4 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 11:43am

Many thanks Cedric. The bug reports didn't come up when I searched earlier. It would be useful if create font gave a warning that it couldn't do what it says it has done.

I'll search for some ticks and crosses in other fonts and see if I can find one that works! Failing that, I'll have to draw them but I did want some nice curvy symbols. Cheers.

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Symbol font doesn't display symbols Reply #5 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 11:56am goodluck, maybe you find something here http://www.searchfreefonts.com/search/?q=symbols http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=721
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Geoffree YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 7	Re: Symbol font doesn't display symbols Reply #6 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 5:20pm Many thanks for the links. Plenty to sift through there!

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Symbol font doesn't display symbols Reply #7 - Feb 20^th, 2009, 5:52pm if you cant find the right one, just make one of your own, with some font editors... maybe you can use http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/ for that purpose
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