![]() ![]() Once you have selected your new characters, click on ‘Copy’.Ĥ Now you need to paste the characters you’ve copied in to Silhouette Studio. If you have more than one character you want to change, then follow the same process, and that character will appear in the same box. Now choose the characters you want to replace by clicking on the character and pressing the select button, this will then appear in the ‘Characters to copy’ box. If you click on one of the characters a little box will appear with a larger example of the ‘character’ This box will not disappear and will stay on the screen. To access the special characters, tick the ‘Advanced View’ Box, in the Group by drop down box choose ‘Unicode Subrange’, a little box will pop up on the right, select the ‘Private Use Characters’ option. ![]() (Make a note of the font size for use further on in this guide)īefore we go any further we need to access the ‘Character Map’, follow the next steps to open the ‘Character Map’ 3 Using the search function on your PC type in Character Map, once found click on it to open the character map. Now using the text style box on the right, select the font you want to use (it has to be one you know is PUA encoded and has different glyphs) I’m using the Hedgehog font from the Hungry JPEG – which is currently only $1 and comes with a Full Commercial License – Bargain!Īdjust the Text Size to whatever size you wish, right click on the font and select the ‘Convert to Path’ option. For the purpose of this tutorial I’m using ‘addicted to fonts’ – because, who isn’t? :-) Using the Text Tool, type out the phrase or quote you want to use. ![]() The font will be installed and will now be accessible via Silhouette Studio.Ģ Open Silhouette Studio as you normally would. The following preview will pop up on the screen, click install. Click on either the TTF or OTF file, either one will work. Once you have downloaded and extracted the font files, navigate to where you extracted the files to. Unzip the file by right clicking and selecting ‘Extract all’, choose a file you want the font to be ‘extracted’ too.įor further guidance, check out my tutorial on how to unzip files here. Once you have downloaded, navigate to the downloads folder on your PC. In the following tutorial, I’ve put together a quick guide on how to use PUA encoded fonts in Silhouette Studio ġ First off download the font from the download link, the download link will be wherever you have purchased your font from, you may have even had an email with the download link. You would normally need fancy software to access extra Glyphs, Swirls, Flourishes and Font Characters, but with PUA encoded fonts you can access these within your Silhouette Studio Software on your windows PC. You would need to check if any of the other editions can do this with the text panel.Fonts, Fonts, everywhere! Fonts are perfect for designing your own quotes and cutting with vinyl to put on a Wooden Plaque, Mugs, Glass Blocks etc. I also have the business edition so I am not sure if this is only available with this edition. I am sure there is other ways of getting to the glyph menu but for me this is easier and I am not searching my computer for the character map. It helps if you color the letters and make your comment or text bigger to get a good feel of how it will look when your done. After you pick your first letter I just double click on it and it comes up on my design area, then I can add the next letter that I want if for some reason I don't like that choice you just use the backspace and try a different one. The one nice thing with using this is the zoom slider at the bottom of the panel which helps seeing what you might like to use and another thing I like is some fonts don't offer any glyphs and when that happens you can see it at a glance that there is no fancy options so you can go to the next. ![]() Click the G and this will have your fonts in a drop down menu, select the one you want to work with it will then show you all of the letters and or characters. After you open the program you would open the "text style" panel, then the tabs offer the A for text style, G for your Glyphs or the ABC for spelling. You can access them thru the Silhouette Studio. There is another way to get to the glyph characters. ![]()
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