[Hitch]

Hey, guys:

I thought the Workshop was feeling bereft and lonely, having not had a new post since before HRH Elizabeth passed, so...what the heck.

I ran into a somewhat interesting issue, the last few days and I hope you're not reading this, thinking that I have some magic wand solution, because I don't. Given what (I think) it would cost to fix this, the client passed on fixing it and went with the standard glyphs, but:

A client sent us an INDD package file, which used the Adobe-available CANTO font. This is a hugely experienced customer--if I say we've done nearly 500-750 eBooks for them, I'm likely not exaggerating. The file used 5 faces--Bold, Light, Roman, SemiBold, Semiboldital (Semi-bold Italic). Right?

But, lo, the book designer used swash alternatives. We use these all the time, sans issue, but this time, what to my wondering eyes should appear when we endeavored to export the HTML/ePUB/anything? (See attached.)

Ixnay on the Ode-points-cay. No codepoints. No Hex (the glyph #454? Nope, not Hex.)

So, instead of the fancy T (and myriad other letters), we ended up with the base font. I told the customer what I thought it would cost, for me to use "my font guy" and create codepoints for +/- 52-ish characters, in all 5 faces, and they decided that they could go Swashless. There were over 100 chapters in the book and 5-6 Parts sections, all of which used the contextual swashes, so making them as images wasn't a) affordable for the customer or b) a quick-n-easy solution for us, either.

But I was wondering if anybody here had a fast-n-easy(ier) way to do this? I mean, to assign codepoints and then deploy them?

I figured if ANYBODY knew, it would be one of you geniuses....???

Hitch