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I'm not really familiar with this, so I wonder if you could suggest how the user interface should look? I think that it would not be too difficult to add support for the Format 14 cmap subtable . I think it could be done in a similar way to which OpenType features are supported in FontCreator. I en...

Please could you add support for vhea (Vertical Header) and vmtx (Vertical Metrics) tables, which are required for vertical display of CJK fonts. I see that a couple of other users have also posted to this forum about the lack of support for vertical fonts in FontCreator, so I think this would be a ...

Later I made some changes to the project, and when I tried to save the project I got the "Out of memory" error message again. FontCreator was the only application running, and I only had the one project open. My computer is a new laptop with plenty of memory, and when I looked at task mana...

I closed all other applications, and I was able to save the project after two attempts. Another issue is the progress bar goes straight to full when you hit Save, and stays at full until the save has completed. At present 10.1 offers no advantage over 10.0 for me, so I will stay with 10.0.

Andrew

Thanks for the quick response. I have sent a link to the project file to customersupport.

Andrew

I have just installed FontCreator 10.1, and I am unable to save an existing project for my very large BabelStone Han font (43,542 glyphs) -- after about 30 seconds I get an "Out of memory" error. I never had a problem with 10.0 or earlier versions.

Andrew

Old versions of FontCreator used to have a Platform Manager tool that allowed you to choose which platform/encoding to support in the font. Recent versions do not have this feature, but automatically use a particular set of platforms and encodings. This means that if I do not want to support Unicode...

Why would I even need a Format 14 cmap subtable? What could I do with it which I can't do now? A Format 14 cmap subtable is the recommended way of implementing variation sequences, and is the only way of supporting variation sequences in a font under Windows 7 and later (see https://www.microsoft.c...

I'm not really familiar with this, so I wonder if you could suggest how the user interface should look? I'm afraid that I don't have any suggestions as to how you would implement it -- perhaps you could check and see how it is implemented in other font editors. I just know that this is an essential...

Hi Erwin, Just checking back (after six years!) to see if you have any plans to support Format 14 cmap subtable any time soon. As you know, I use FontCreator a lot, and think it is the best, but the lack of support for Format 14 cmap subtable is something that really holds me back as several of my f...

Erwin Denissen wrote:We will most likely add support for this subtable as soon as we start adding support for OpenType layout features, but we are currently focused on a major update of MainType.

Thanks, I'm eagerly looking forward to this.

An easy work around: Insert the number of glyphs that you want wherever you want them. Insert the characters at the end Copy and paste special, mappings and postscript data, overwrite same mappings Delete the empty glyphs at the end Thanks for the tip -- I had not even realized that this paste spec...

It would be really useful if the inserted characters from the Insert Characters dialog could be inserted at a particular location (e.g. before the currently selected glyph). At present, the characters are always inserted at the end, so I have to sort the font to get them where I want them to be, and...

We have no short term plans to add support for this subtable, but if we receive more similar requests we might change our plans. Please would you reconsider. I think that Font Creator is an excellent font editor, but the lack of support for Format 14 cmap subtable is really holding me back. This ta...

Thanks for the reply. It is basically what I expected you would say. I think that the only solution will be for me to write a little utility to add in a format 14 subtable to a font.