Preview Text - Font Name Missing

rmerkle · Post by **rmerkle** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:41 pm

Still learning here.... so go easy...

In the Preview Text I have some fonts showing as "ABCDEFGHIJ" (the Preview Text under Options menu is set to "Font Name"). Under the Information panel the Font Name shows as (for example) "Aidan Italic" but does not show under "Preview Text" column. Most all the other fonts do have names showing in the Preview Text.

How can I get the font name to appear in Preview Text for this one or two (actually about 30 fonts)....

Thanks for bearing with me as I learn this software...

Bob

Erwin Denissen · Post by **Erwin Denissen** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:23 pm

Hi Bob,

A very good question! That's why this question has already been answered in the MainType FAQ. I've just added the answer with some more background information here:
viewtopic.php?p=6104#6104

rmerkle · Post by **rmerkle** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:52 pm

Erwin,

I did see the FAQ but it did not really answer my question or explain why some fonts show "AbCdEfGhIj".... but maybe I was not clear either... I understand "Symbol" fonts would do this (like "wingdings").. but these are NOT symbol fonts that are showing this way but regular text fonts. When I look at one font that shows the "name" and the font that is showing the ""AbCdEfGhIj" I really don't see a difference (all the characters seem to be the same in the "Character" section .... It may be that I just don't understand the internal working of fonts but from a casual user standpoint I don't see the difference.... I know I'm probably missing something obvious.... so thank you in advance for your patience.... (but I really did read the FAQ and even search the forum but could find this particular issue)...

Thanks,

Bob

Bhikkhu Pesala · Post by **Bhikkhu Pesala** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:07 pm

Can you send me one of these fonts that behaves in this way?

rmerkle · Post by **rmerkle** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:29 am

Bhikkhu,

Just sent you the font file.... Thanks...

Bob

Bhikkhu Pesala · Post by **Bhikkhu Pesala** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:30 pm

The font is a symbol font. That is why it doesn't display the font name in the Preview pane of MainType. Although the alphabets are in the font, they are not mapped to A-z on the Microsoft Unicode platform.

To change it to a Unicode font, please see these instructions in the online FontCreator manual.

rmerkle · Post by **rmerkle** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:52 pm

Bhikkhu,

Thanks for looking at the font.... as I warned I'm very new to "fonts" and am coming to realize there is a lot more to them.... Didn't realize a Symbol font would contain letters...

Thanks for clarifying... now the FAQ makes much more sense...

Bob