<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi David,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Unfortunately, it is a tedious process to add a new font to an existing font table.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We've had questions about this through the years, and here's what one of our original developers (now retired) responded with:</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">A complete description of the character (</span><span class="m_-1699468756008988478gmail-il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">fontcap</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">) tables,</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">including the character encodings, can be found at:</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://ncarg.ucar.edu/supplements/cgm_supp/cgm_supp.html" rel="noreferrer" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">http://ncarg.ucar.edu/suppleme<wbr>nts/cgm_supp/cgm_supp.html</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">If you are wanting simply to add a character to an existing<span> </span></span><span class="m_-1699468756008988478gmail-il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">fontcap</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">defining filled<span> </span></span><span class="m_-1699468756008988478gmail-il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">fonts</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">, then you would want to read the<span> </span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"Character<span> </span></span><span class="m_-1699468756008988478gmail-il" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">outline</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span> </span>class" in the above.</span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Warning: you will have to be a particularly patient person to wade through<span> </span></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">this to be successful.</span></span></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As an exercise awhile back, this same developer added an umlaut "a" to a font table to see what it took, and created a step-by-step document which I've attached here. I also attached the resultant TIFF file of the character he added. He said this process took him 2.5 hours for one character, but that included the time it took to write the document.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Maybe this will be of help to someone. I would love to try this procedure myself in my copious spare time.  :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:30 AM, David Hutchinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.hutchinson@geo.su.se" target="_blank">david.hutchinson@geo.su.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
I would like to install a custom font that is not pre-installed in the NCL font tables. Is it possible to do this using an .otf or .ttf file?<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
David<br>
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