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We have explained it in this tutorial:

Font Metrics – Vertical Line Spacing

Excel is something special, it seems it has never been updated in the last two decades, so works in mysterious ways.

You could try to ask support at Microsoft.

We had a short downtime (less than half an hour) due to a drive failure. Nothing is lost (we have a mirror drive in Raid), but it had to be replaced. All is now back to normal.

MainType runs on Windows 10, 8, and 7 and we offer both a 32-bit and a 64-bit version.

If you are the only person who uses the software, then you only need one license.

We offer upgrades for existing customers.

I do not think there is such setting. It might work to slightly increase the Win Ascent value.

Windows has evolved over the years and your version of FontCreator does not support user based font installations.

I have received the font project, but it works just fine in both Word and Firefox.

Hello All, We ended up creating a single line font. Everything looks correct in the font project. However, when we export/insta;ll and use the font, the letters do not show up correctly. singleline.png The shin-hebr outline looks more like an export with Open Contours option set to Single Stroke. D...

Sounds indeed strange. If it is a bug in FontCreator we would love to have the chance to fix it. So if you still have a copy of your font project with the issue, do send it.

Do send the project file to us by email, so we can look into this. I will send you a PM with instructions.

Have you been able to locate the cause of the problem?

That version is 8 years old, so no wonder it has compatibility issues. Still nice to know you have been able to install it on Windows 10. More recent versions of Windows introduced per user font installations and variable fonts. Both are not supported in older versions of MainType. Besides this, a l...

Thank you for letting us know. We will try to fix it in a future release.

That is good to know.

If you still remember what preview text you used, do send it to us, so we can further improve our software.

It works just fine here.

Maybe you have a specific preview text that is causing the issue. Can you open the OpenType Designer with another font, and then change the preview text. Then try to open this font?