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If this solves the problem, I gladly will. I'll try it as soon as I get the chance.
Thank you for your support - now and in the past. Without you and this forum my font wouldn't exist, and it's been a huge success.

Thank you for all those hints. I don't actually start a new font though. I have my existing font and want to replace letters and numbers with the dotted ones instead. Most of the other glyphs will remain as they are because they are not necessary for first graders that learn how to write letters and...

Yes, I do consider doing that and I hope it's as simple as that. But is there a free trial to first test if it makes a difference?

I import vector images. I work with Corel Draw and export the images as eps files. I have an ancient version of AI that imports the images perfectly. So the eps must be alright. Only when importing them to FC the circles look like that. They are small, but not that small. Every dot is 37x37.

Hello! I got a request to make a dotted version of my school font for kids to trace. I'm trying to do this now, but when I import the glyphs, the previously perfectly round circles get distorted. Some are better than others, but none are really round anymore. Is there a way to avoid this? (At the mo...

The problem is, it's not for me. My font has several features that I'm writing a manual for, and I wanted to provide instructions for Word and a free program for those that don't have Word. Well, I guess all I can do is explain how it works. If it's too annoying for the users, they'll have to decide...

Thanks!
That's really anything else but user friendly, but well .... guess I have to put up with this for the lack of free alternatives.

Hi! I'm finally done with my font and now trying out what other (free) software but Word I can use it in with all my Open Type Features. Right now I'm playing around with LibreOffice, but it has ligatures and even contextual alternates turned on by default, which I don't want. Does anybody know how ...

Erwin Denissen wrote: ↑Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:32 pm You've enabled the more advanced Shaping Engine (_shaper)

I must have clicked on that accidentally. Thanks!

You can select all glyphs and set the type to "Automatic" from the right-click menu. Okay thanks. I did that right away. You can run a Transform script to reset the offset of all glyphs back to zero. I am not sure how or why it happens. Good to know. I'll do that when I'm done with everyt...

I just noticed that the preview for Contextual Alternates doesn't work right in the OTD. My normal font looks like this: calt2.jpg I have alternative letters with the calt feature. As you can see, the calt box is not checked on the left side, yet the preview displays the alternative letters. calt1.j...

I've noticed that a bunch of my glyphs have this setting, saying "Ligature 3" below the box for "Automatic". I've seen "Ligature 2" too. I assume this number says how many glyphs in a ligature put out this glyph. Is this correct? If so, I just wondered that some glyphs ...

Oh, I never realized that I could just click on something in the preview to jump somewhere.
I'll try this tomorrow. Thanks for the tip!

There's one thing that keeps slowing me down a lot, so if possible it would be very much appreciated if it could be improved: It would be awesome if OTD would remember what I did last and stay there. For instance, when working on a kerning pair, whenever I leave the OTD to test it and then re-open t...

Okay.
So far I didn't see anything happen. If I do, I'll report it.