Re: Custom Bullet

["Becky Swanson" <becky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are many programs out there to turn graphics into fonts. There is one from
Macromedia called "Fontographer" that has good reviews, but it lists for $359.
There may be some shareware out there. Go to Google.com and type in "font
creation" or "font utilities". You'll get a lot of hits.

Best regards,
Becky Swanson
www.benchmarkpubs.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Stauffer" <JStauffer@BeamReachNetworks.com>
To: "Framers (E-mail)" <framers@omsys.com>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 1:02 PM
Subject: RE: Custom Bullet


Thanks, Karl, but I think you misunderstood my question. I have a graphic
logo that I want to be the bullet symbol. This graphic does not appear in
the Symbol/Wingding/Dingbat sets. The question is, how to make an
independent graphic look like one of those symbol fonts so I can choose it
in the Paragrapg Designer.

Rick Quatro has responded with an offer to turn my logo into a font. So, if
I can afford his price, the problem should be solved.


Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Schmidtmann [mailto:kschmidtmann@mahinetworks.com]
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 10:55 AM
To: 'Jim Stauffer'; Framers (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Custom Bullet


Jim:
>From the FrameMaker online help:

1  Create a character format that uses the font of the bullet symbol you
want to use. For example, to use 9-point Zapf Dingbats, create a character
format using that font. Give the format a descriptive name such as
BulletFont.
For information on creating character formats, see Using a designer to
change font properties.
2  Display the Numbering properties of the Paragraph Designer and enter the
character corresponding to the bullet symbol you want in the Autonumber
Format text box (rather than select the symbol in the Building Blocks scroll
list).

For example, if you want a Zapf Dingbats square bullet, enter the lowercase
letter n. To find the character that corresponds to the bullet symbol you
want, see the character set for that font (see the online manual FrameMaker
Character Sets for the character sets for the Symbol and Zapf Dingbats
fonts).
3  Click the tab symbol (\t) in the Building Blocks scroll list or enter
spaces.

Note: You may have to use special codes to enter characters such as
nonbreaking spaces or em spaces. For information, see Typing in Dialog Boxes

4  In the Character Format scroll list, click the bullet character format
that you created.
5  Click Apply To Selection.


Best of luck,

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Stauffer [mailto:JStauffer@BeamReachNetworks.com]
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 10:14 AM
To: Framers (E-mail)
Subject: Custom Bullet


I have a client (it's actually donated services to a good organization) that
wants their logo used as the symbol in bulleted lists. I confess, I don't
know how to accomplish this in an automated manner.

I have seen instances where someone turned a logo into a font file. This
seems workable, but I don't know how to do it.

Any advice will be appreciated.



Jim Stauffer
Sr. Technical Writer
BeamReach Networks
Sunnyvale, CA
www.beamreachnetworks.com


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