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by FontFan
Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:55 pm
Forum: General Font Discussions
Topic: Windows symbol font with a very large number of glyphs
Replies: 4
Views: 8473

Windows symbol font with a very large number of glyphs

Hello everybody, for a specific project, I would need one symbol font for the Windows platform with a great many glyphs: around 10,000 symbols. All I know about MS symbol fonts comes from FontCreator's online help (which, IMHO, is a great piece of informationen about fonts and an outstanding documen...
by FontFan
Thu Sep 15, 2005 2:26 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Cannot install fonts on Mac OS (Tiger): validation fails
Replies: 4
Views: 5707

I know the online help and I use it regularly. For this question, however, it could be more explicit: Make "should be" a "must be" and "should not" a "must not". ;-)
by FontFan
Thu Sep 15, 2005 1:06 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Cannot install fonts on Mac OS (Tiger): validation fails
Replies: 4
Views: 5707

Erwin, thanks for your help! It was indeed related to the PostScript name which contained invalid characters - spaces are not allowed there. I had not used AutoNaming which would have removed all the invalid characters automatically ... For those who care: Interesting details about naming tables, sy...
by FontFan
Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:18 pm
Forum: FontCreator - Support
Topic: Cannot install fonts on Mac OS (Tiger): validation fails
Replies: 4
Views: 5707

Cannot install fonts on Mac OS (Tiger): validation fails

Hi, I was told that the symbol fonts I have created with FCP 5.0 cannot be installed on an Apple Macintosh: The installation fails because they do not validate. Since I am not familiar with the Apple platform, I used Google to find out: One of Apple's new features in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is an "...