Hello!
This is my first experience with a font changing program and I have a little problem:
For Testing purpose I wanted to change a single letter in an existing windows font. To be more specific I wanted to change the “0” (zero) to have a slash in “Courier New” (WIN 2000).
I did it and everything looks fine. The preview is ok. Then I save the font on a different location on my computer and double click on it. The char map shows up, but my changes are not visible.
It is still the old “Courier New”
What am I doing wrong?
BTW: I don´t want to install the font so far, but use it in an Java Application.
When you click on any font to view it in Font View it always shows you the installed font, not the one you clicked on. Make a directory of C:\My Font\Microsoft\ (or whatever), copy your courier fonts there, then uninstall them temporarily. You will now be able to see the changes you have made.
I removed the old font and installed my new font. Changes are still not visible.
BTW: Is there a way to convert an “OPEN TYPE FONT” bach to a “TRUE TYPE FONT”?
If the modified Ø shows up in Font Creator’s test window, it must work in Windows. Try installing the font directly from Font Creator. I can only assume that you have not installed the modified version.
Why would you want to convert Open Type fonts to Truetype? Font Creator can edit either. Open Type features are not supported by Font Creator, but the tables containing the Open Type data will be saved with the font.
I installed directly from Font Creator without errors and the font is now in my fonts directory.
I also modified an true type font a that one did work! This is why I want to convert Open Type font to Truetype. But I don´t find an option to do it.
Windows (2000, XP and higher) makes no difference between TrueType and OpenType fonts, so there is no need to convert back to TrueType.
In case you still want to go this way, just remove the DSIG table (and all other unsupported tables). The DSIG table makes Windows show the OpenType icon instead of the TrueType icon in Windows Explorer. This is true for all TrueType based OpenType fonts. PostScript based OpenType fonts always show the OpenType icon, however Font Creator always converts PostScript based OpenType fonts to TrueType based OpenType fonts.
I deleted all unsupported tables and installed the font again succesfully.
The icon now shows TrueType. but when I oben the font it says OpenType and my changes are still not visible (changed zero to have a slash).