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Sometimes Windows will try to automatically install a font when it is saved to the Windows font folder. This could cause several problems. Installing fonts should be done through the Install option from Windows fonts folder or within the Font Creator Program. Both ways you will have an option to sav...

The Panose fields are used to describe the visual characteristics of a given typeface. These characteristics are then used to associate the font with other fonts of similar appearance having different names. Many sophisticated word processors and DTP applications use the PANOSE information to find t...

To give your font a name we select Naming from the Format menu . Select the Microsoft Platform then select the English - United States language to change its naming fields. For the Microsoft (Unicode or Symbol) Platform these naming entries for English - United States should be available: - Font Fam...

Look in the help file for the Save a Font section.

Can you send the font file to me, so I can investigate the problem?

Also could you provide me with a screenshot that clarifies the problem?

The TrueType font file specification tells us that contours that need to be filled black must have a clockwise direction. If we want to make a white area inside an existing contour we must make the direction of the new contour counter clockwise. See TrueType fundamentals from Microsoft for more info...

There are four ways to add outlines (contours) to a glyph: Add a new contour First select Contour from the Insert menu. A left mouse click creates a point onto the contour and a right mouse click creates a point off the contour for a bézier curve. Creating points while pressing the CTRL key generate...

Currently there is no such feature. You could try to copy and paste the glyphs into another font that does have correct Microsoft table data.

By opening a font with Windows font viewer the font is actually (temporarily) installed. Changing such a font might confuse Windows and/ or the font viewer. If you want to know how your font is going to look you can test (Select Test from the Font menu ) it any time during the development process. S...

For historical reasons some applications, which install or use fonts, perform version control using values in the Macintosh platform. Because of this, it is recommended that Macintosh platform exists in all fonts and that the syntax of the Version string follows the guidelines given in the Naming se...

Can you send the font file to me, so I can investigate the problem?

Erwin Denissen

The ten digits should all have the same advance width, even in a proportionally spaced font.

Erwin Denissen

I've closed this topic because of another discussion that also presents a solution:
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Erwin Denissen

TrueType fonts can be used directly under OSX, but need to be converted for use by earlier Mac operating systems. I know of 3 tools that convert TrueType fonts between Mac and Windows formats, however I've never tried any of them: CrossFont v3.6 for Windows from Acute Systems (US $45.00): http://www...

Only the small letter o and k have outlines, so Word will show empty glyphs when printing 'Knudsen' in the menu. You should add outlines to all empty glyphs, or even better use a symbol font because of the fact that you are making a signature font. Note: symbol fonts (also known as Dingbats) are use...