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Over the years numerous people have experimented and even implemented pseudo random functionality in/with fonts. The idea is type one or more characters, and use different glyphs for the same character. This can be accomplished by adding Contextual Alternates to your font. In this example, we will h...

If you get this same error with version 7.5, then please send the file(s) to me.

Most people don't care about the size of their fonts, but sometimes there is need for a small font. FontCreator will try to keep the file size as low as possible, so to some extent it can be used for this purpose. To really, really, make a font with the smallest file size, it will become a font whic...

First of all I want you to know the people who replied so far, all try to help by providing useful suggestions. We from High-Logic appreciate all help we can get, especially during the weekends :wink: Upgrade to FontCreator 7.5 to get automatic hinting. So you're suggesting me to pay another $120 in...

Hold down both Ctrl and Shift key and then use the mouse scroll to change the scale.

FontCreator did clearly show a warning that this would happen during the trial period.

If you own a license for version 5 of our font editor, then upgrade here:
http://www.high-logic.com/shop/upgrades.html

Here goes nothing. That font is made with a trial version of our software. Please buy a license instead of wasting your time, our time, and that of a lot of other people helping here at the forum. Also the font is copyright © Cory Hurst Graphics, and I can't identify you as someone affiliated with ...

Do export the font file, and upload it here. I'm sure that reveals the problem.

In order for your sample script to work, you need glyhps with these names:
a
A
aa
AA

If you press F9 in the OpenType layout feature editor you will see warnings if something is not right.

Don't include the lookup definition in the feature but split them like this:

feature Ligatures liga {
# Standard Ligatures
lookup LigaSub;
}

lookup LigaSub {
sub a a -> AA;
sub A A -> AA;
etc...
}

The are several recommended glyphs as mentioned in the manual. Especially take a look at the part about Recommended Glyphs - Other suggested glyphs : middle dot bullet bullet operator You can insert the characters through the Insert Characters feature , using these codepoints: $00B7, $2022, $2219

I'll have to look into this some more to find all specifics, but there are a couple of things that result in showing the Greek preview. One of them is the Greek Unicode character range to be marked available. Arial Unicode MS Regular has the same icon, right?

I see. This font is made with the trial version of FontCreator, which produces fonts where only a subset of the characters will be included in the exported font. The problem is easily solved; just buy a license here: http://www.high-logic.com/shop/new-licenses.html I edited a Unicode tamil font but ...

Please download and install the fix from this url:
http://www.high-logic.com/utils/FontInstallerSetup.exe

Do let us know your results.

The code chart only affects the viewing of characters in the Insert Characters dialog. So it really doesn't matter that much.

But of course we always try to keep up-to-date with the Unicode character database.