Max width for a glyph
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:56 am
I am a novice at font creation/editing, and I couldn't find the answer to this by searching. I appreciate your help.
A former member of our team created an .otf font made up of some basic shapes that we use for some pseudo graphics. Most of them are just solid rectangular blocks. The font currently works as is, and when I type out the characters using MS Word (and in our intended application), they appear as expected. However, if I read in the font into FontCreator or another editor then try to output the font (or just "Test TTF/OTF" in FontCreator), only the rectangular blocks that are less than about 6000 units are generated as visible characters. If I stretch any of the glyphs to less than 6000, they become visible. But stretch any of them to over 6000, then they become invisible.
The existing font file has some of these rectangular glyphs that are as wide as 32,000 units, so somehow the original designer was able to generate the font file without this problem. Is there a setting or something I'm missing that allows for these wider glyphs? I am trying to edit the font because I want to add a couple more glyphs that will also be these types of extra wide rectangles.
A former member of our team created an .otf font made up of some basic shapes that we use for some pseudo graphics. Most of them are just solid rectangular blocks. The font currently works as is, and when I type out the characters using MS Word (and in our intended application), they appear as expected. However, if I read in the font into FontCreator or another editor then try to output the font (or just "Test TTF/OTF" in FontCreator), only the rectangular blocks that are less than about 6000 units are generated as visible characters. If I stretch any of the glyphs to less than 6000, they become visible. But stretch any of them to over 6000, then they become invisible.
The existing font file has some of these rectangular glyphs that are as wide as 32,000 units, so somehow the original designer was able to generate the font file without this problem. Is there a setting or something I'm missing that allows for these wider glyphs? I am trying to edit the font because I want to add a couple more glyphs that will also be these types of extra wide rectangles.