Font Forum

If you have access to PhotoShop, the add-in filter, 'KPT5 Smoothie' does a good job.

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I'm having problems with free and purchased fonts which worked fine under W98 but give a "not a valid font file" error under W2K; presumably for the reasons listed elsewhere on the forum. Some of these can be opened in FC running under W98 and the missing fields added. However, several of ...

This isn't really directly concerned with Font Creator but I've joined VOLT, looked at the documents and can't find anything as simple as just the conversion of a TT font to Open Type.

I'd appreciate a brief tutorial if anyone has the time.

The Help files states that oulines should be drawn clockwise and inner, clear areas, counter-clockwise. However, other documents I've read state that the opposite directions must be used for PS fonts and that it doesn't matter for TT. I've tried it both ways and it doesn't seem to matter for TT font...

This is a partial solution to the problem of providing guide lines for diagonals. Select a Glyph that you're not going to use and draw one or more thin, diagonal contours. I usually start with a 45º and a 60º of 10 units width. Don't make the mistake that I did of reducing them to zero width. You ge...