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That does indeed look very similar, thanks.

I didn't think it unreasonable to bump a recent thread on the same topic, but I'll start a new one should the need arise again!

Script fonts seem to be particularly resistant to identification by automatic means. Although the attached sample has several distinctive features such as the shape of the capital 'S', the large loops on the ascenders (which, unlike this example, tend to be combined with a small x-height) and the lo...

A font installation can fail because the font file is corrupt, but if FontCreator says that the font is already installed, then that must be the reason for the failure. What version of Windows do you have, and how are you performing the search? If I go to the Windows Fonts folder on this Win7 system...

I think Bhikkhu Pesala wants you to set the check boxes which are marked "yellow". I think you're right, but 'Format > Character... > Font > Ligatures' in PPX5 apparently only enables standard ligatures (liga), not discretionary ligatures (dlig), so although ff, fi, fl, ffi and ffl are al...

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:That has been moved to the View menu, display format, making it slightly quicker to change.

Thanks. Even quicker: Ctrl+J!

Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:9731 = Code-point (decimal in my case)

The decimal version of the code-point value would be more useful to me than the hexadecimal version, especially where the glyph name is already something like 'uni2603'. Where do you change this? I couldn't see anything under 'Tools > Options'.