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Okay I will add it into the feature request forum.

I went through the link you provide: Doesn't it get tedious to remove positive kerning pairs from a font with 114,000 pairs?

Hi I just moved from FC8 Standard to FC12 Pro and the AutoKern no longer has the option to remove positive kerning values when running the wizard. I ended up having to do it using character replacement after copying the OpenType code to Excel. What is the new method for preventing or removing positi...

Haha awesome!

Followed up a hunch based on your Italics comment. I just calculated the inverse tangent of the auto-generated anchor points in the letter below and discovered that it's 22 degrees. This is the exact same number as the "Italic Angle" under Properties > Identification. Turns out that was th...

There is no way to control the auto-generation of anchors. The position of the anchor depends on the shape of the glyph. For a symmetrical italic glyph the anchor is centred accurately, with half pixels being rounded up. Anchor Placement.png The anchor is placed at 862, which is half way between th...

It does. Anchor Based composition does that and it mostly positions them correctly for the font. A couple of exceptions are Øslash and øslash where the top is the top of the slash, rather than Cap Height or x-Height as it is for O Caps and o lowercase. Ohorn and Uhorn anchors are positioned wrongly...

I think the quickest method is to use guidelines to align accents manually after using Complete Composites with the help of guidelines. It is not precise and takes some care to maintain consistency, but it takes no preliminary work. I agree if the context is a low volume of fonts and successful cha...

Hi I recently upgraded to FontCreator 12 and am struggling to develop an efficient workflow for accented characters. Here are my two options right now: Edit CompositeData.xml I can edit CompositeData.xml to: align most accents to the center of the base glyph apply a left or right offset to grave and...

We did post it once to the forum and it is also described in more recent versions of the FontCreator manual. How to make fonts work like a family? Windows comes with several typefaces (font families) that are made up with more than 4 fonts. To name a few; Calibri contains 6 fonts, Segoe UI comes wi...

Hi there. I have been having a heck of a time getting all width and weight variations to show in the Font Style menus of Adobe software, specifically Photoshop. All I see are the subfamilies Regular, Bold, Bold Italic, and Italic. Illustrator seems to be okay. Here are the items I am varying: Font P...

Having similar issues with bold style. Took all afternoon to resolve. I was able to solve it by changing the font name, incrementing the version, changing the font name back, and then incrementing the version. A lot of weirdness with *'s and OTT's being appended to both the font name and font style ...

Okay, it looks like I'm out of luck until I upgrade.

I have access to the OpenType Designer, I can add the Stylistic Alternate and Stylistic Set features, but then the designer gives me mark to base and pair adjustment options. I'll see if I can find any tutorials on the forum. The comparison chart seems to say that the only difference between standar...

Can you link me the tutorial on how to make that happen?
My copy of FC8.1 Standard has nothing in the help file, and Google searches haven't come up with anything definitive as of yet.
Seen the Fontself implementation though!

Appreciate it

Hi there I am looking for some advice on best practice for supplying alternates with a different horizontal stroke (cross bar) height. For example: a new all-caps gothic grotesque font, the horizontal stroke bounces up and down above and below the horizontal centerline. I put alternate glyphs with c...