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Yes, it looks like there is are some errors in the Font Test Window.
If I open the font test window, then test the temporary font in PagePlus, the alignment looks to be correct.

A copy of the font would be more useful than screen shots. Maybe your word-processor is adjusting the spacing between characters?

I have run into real world problems with fonts having off-curve extremes, but so far not with intersecting co-ordinates. Possibly, applications might have problems with filling them properly — but I don't know to be honest. The answer above seems like a valid reason to avoid them. Since they're easy...

Thanks for posting the solution. It may be useful to others. I have bookmarked the thread.

Sorry. No idea, as I said, I don't export to EPS, and probably don't use the program that you're using. FontCreator needs some frame of reference to scale the glyphs. If its not there, it can only use the glyph's bounding box.

I am not an Autocad user, but I guess your best route would be to export each character as a PDF file e.g. from ! 033.pdf to z 126.pdf then drag and drop those files from Windows Explorer into a new font.

What do you mean by "corrupted"? I tested with Arial Regular, scaling the ANSI characters by 67% using the Glyph Transform Wizard. I used the Autonaming wizard to rename the font, I saved the modified Truetype file with a new file name, then installed "Arial Narrow." As expected ...

I am saying I don't export to EPS, but use PDF instead. DrawPlus doesn't export to EPS. That's where the screen shot is from. I guess your drawing application will have a page size too. Don't fill the entire page with the glyphs, but export the entire page as an EPS, not just the glyph.

The EPS files are different sizes. I have no experience of creating EPS files, but with PDF files they must all use the same paper size, then they will import in the correct proportions. You need a bounding box that is the same for each glyph, whatever its size relative to the other glyphs.

virtualvinodh wrote:Bhante,

Can you please try rendering the characters in a word processor, and let me know if they render properly ?

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I don't have any Windows App that would render these fonts. PagePlus doesn't support these higher planes, and from what Vanisac says, LibreOffice doesn't support Uniscribe.

I was able to get the glyph substitutions to work for all three fonts using the Truetype Viewer to test them. Tamil: \u0B95\u0BBE Latin: ka and Brahmi \00011013\00011038 all worked OK for me. What does SMP mean? I am out of my depth when it comes to these higher Unicode planes. Brahmi Ligatures.png ...

When I'm working on Unicode proposals, I often have to put glyphs in the PUA for using inside my proposal document (as the characters are obviously not encoded yet). But it is a pain to open each consecutive glyph's properties, go to mapping, enter the next PUA value, and close and do this for each...

When saving the font, or afterwards, you can rename the extension from *.ttf to *.otf. I have no idea if this is enough for the Mac to recognise the font as OpenType, but Windows is quite happy to use such fonts without digital signing. Adding digital signing to give the font an OpenType icon is an ...

Your last post seems to have been overlooked. Did you find the answer to your question yet? If you define Mathematical Operator symbols that match the standard Unicode Character sets you should be able to send them to others by email, as long as they have your font installed or a similar font that s...

Either buy a copy of Scanahand, or visit Your Fonts.

If you want more control over kerning, line-spacing, etc., then FontCreator is best.