misty1345 0 Posted October 29, 2015 I am new to illustrator. I would like to select all glyphs and paste to create a svg that I can use in my cutter software. Is there a way to do this? I have a about 30 fonts that I want all the glyphs for. It is to time consuming to click each glyph. Any help would be much appreciated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Primal Decals 621 Posted October 29, 2015 what cutter software are you using.Sorry for being a 10 month newbie but ive never heard the word glyphs before even tho i use ai with my cutter software scalps lol... educate me or is it another word for fonts lol.. I feel some remarks coming soon from the dark side of the forum.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dcbevins 340 Posted October 29, 2015 I think you are trying to get all the characters out of a font. First idea that popped into my head has to type the whole keyboard. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890`-=[]\;',./ then uppercase. This might not get them all but probably most. You could that copy and past that several times and just change the font. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wildgoose 4,200 Posted November 4, 2015 Wow I don't know of a shortcut to get all the glyphs in one fell swoop. I guess i don't follow the why of what you are trying to accomplish. I just grab one here and there as I need them and place them in the design as I build it. I would think you will spend more time messing around trying to get the right glyph with the right font at the right size in the right alignment etc... than just building the file as you need it. Primal, Glyphs are special characters that are available within a lot of fonts. They are basically hiding behind a magic curtain. Ha ha! In Illustrator just select the text and then go to Type>glyphs and it will open a new window and show you the options. Each one is associated with a keystroke combination but I never remember what is what. Several are the same throughout most regular fonts. For instance on my mac Option(alt)+2 is the ™ sign in most standard fonts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skarekrow 1,842 Posted November 4, 2015 There's no necessity of specialty or hidden aspect to be considered a glyph. It is basically just a complete character of a text, word, or font. The specific shape, design, or representation of a character. Those 'special' characters are glyphs too (such as ligatures) but, so is the character representing the letter "a". 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
randalle 50 Posted November 12, 2015 Type out your a-z. Make a copy of it. Take the original and change it to the font you want. Right click on it and choose "create outlines" repeat as needed. Once they are in 'outlines' you can group and ungroup them as needed - the process is so simple that I would not pre-stage them like this. Just type out what you want, when you need it, and then convert to outlines. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
