Adobe Illustrator CS4 - Manual (Page 353)

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Type
Categories of characters in composite fonts
Kanji The base font of the composite font. The size and baseline for other characters are set according to the sizes and
baselines specified here.
Kana The font used for hiragana and katakana characters.
Punctuation The font used for punctuation.
Symbols The font used for symbols.
Roman The font used for half-width roman characters.
Numbers The font used for half-width numbers. This is usually a roman font.
Font attributes for composite fonts
Font Family And Style The font used for the characters.
Size The size of the characters in relation to the size of kanji characters. The size may differ for different fonts, even
when the same font size is used.
Baseline The position of the baseline in relation to the baseline for kanji characters.
Vertical And Horizontal Scale The degree to which characters are scaled. You can scale kana characters, half-width
katakana characters, gaiji characters, half-width roman characters, and numbers.
Scale At Center Scaling for kana characters. When this option is selected, characters are scaled from the center. When
this option is deselected, characters are scaled from the roman baseline.
To specify the same transformation scale for all characters, specify a value for Size and fix the value for scale at 100%.
To have a different character transformation scale for horizontal and vertical, fix Size at 100%, and set Scale.
Customize characters in a composite font
1 Choose Type > Composite Fonts. If you don’t see this command, select Show Asian Options in the Type
preferences.
2 Click Custom in the Composite Font dialog box.
3 Do one of the following:
• If you’ve previously saved custom character sets, select the set you want to edit.
• To create a custom set, click New, enter a name for the character set, and click OK. If there are existing custom sets,
you can also choose a set on which to base the new set.
4 Do any of the following:
• To add a character directly, choose Direct Entry from the Character pop-up menu, enter the characters in the box,
and click Add.
• To add a character using a code, choose an encoding type from the Character pop-up menu, enter the code, and
click Add.
Note: You cannot add 32-bit characters to a custom set.
• To delete a character, select it in the list box, and click Delete.
5 When you’ve finished customizing the character set, click Save, and then click OK.
Note: When there are several custom characters in one composite font, the bottom set takes precedence over all the above
sets.