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Is it possible to view the special/alternative/swash characters of Open Type fonts in the Character panel? For instance, I have a font with several alternate/decorative caps that I would like to see all options laid out in the Character panel, but I only see the 'standard' caps of each letter, and t...

Oh wait, weirdly they are there now. I had to close out of the program and re-start it. Is that normal, or should they show up immediately?

I exported them in version 9, then upgraded to v10, uninstalled everything and re-installed v9. Tags were gone and like I said re-importing simply didn't work.

Am I doing it right:

Tools/Import and Export/Import Tags and Rating

I spent hours tagging all of my fonts, then exported the tags and ratings to an XML file. I had to re-install MainType, and when I went to: Tools/Import and Export/Import Tags and Ratings, and chose my file, nothing happened. It didn't import my previously saved tags. There seems to be no specific d...

Will converting contours from Cubic to Quadratic (or vice-verse) alter the shape/outline of the glyphs? If I am copy-pasting glyphs from Adobe Illustrator, they will be Quadratic, correct? Any advantage to converting to Cubic if I am exporting the fonts as CFF? And finally, will the fonts look bette...

Is there a difference between going Edit/Optimize Contours and going through the Font Validation Wizard and checking 'Fix detected problems'? In Font Validation Wizard, will the glyph shapes significantly change if the problems fixed are: Contours with incorrect direction Redundant points Off-curve ...

Ah - that did the trick. Thank you!

In the Open Type Designer, when I make adjustments to kerning pairs and apply the changes, it does not reflect in the text preview below.

Using the latest version of FC.

Thank you!!

I noticed that when going to a font file, right-clicking/Open With/Font Creator - the program stays 'hidden' on the Task Bar (if I already have the program open), instead of popping up on the screen like other programs do. Can this be changed for the next version? It makes it seem like 'Open With' d...

Awesome, thank you!!

Ctrl + E would be a lot better, but that would require a change of the shortcut for Paste Special to Ctrl + Shift + V. Although that makes better logical sense, changing shortcuts is risky as it may annoy any users who frequently use Paste Special. Is there a reason why there are two different shor...

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:03 am

jedbadda wrote: ↑Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:18 amIs [Ctrl + E] taken?

Yes, it is. Keyboard Shortcuts

How about Ctrl + D? That's a good one.

Erwin Denissen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:07 pm Do let us know which shortcut you suggest and we'll consider it for a future release.

Is [Ctrl + E] taken?

I am perplexed why there is no keyboard shortcut for File/Export Settings, as it is something I am constantly opening and have to check every time I export a font.

It would be EXTREMELY helpful to have a keyboard shortcut for this and would save so much time.