Hi all. I modified a font called “Free 3of9 Extended Regular” using FC4.1
The original font was created by a third party, and I downloaded it for use in a VB program. I found that the font was unsuitable, as it was too high, and caused the line spacing to go awry, on a report the barcode was used in, so i used FC4.1 to scale the height of each glyph to 50% (and what a long job that was..). I saved the file, but found that the characters still came through as the set height, as though the bounds for characters were set elsewhere.
After many hours of looking (you could do with being able to drag the ascender marker in the edit pane..) i found the Ascender option, that appeared to relate to character height. I modified all the Ascender values i could find, to half of what they were previously, and saved the file.
The resulting file worked great on my reports, and in windows font viewer, so i released the tool that uses the new Half 3of9 Extended Regular.
Alas, my users could not use this particular font, and said that attempting to use the report gave them a “general error”
Upon investigation, i formatted and set up a machine identical to a user system (our users use machines that we preinstall). Viewing my font on these machines, in windows font viewer, causes a blank to be displayed.. there is something wrong with the font, yet it displays perfectly on my machine (that it was developed on).
I shall post a zip archive containing:
fre3of9x.ttf - the original inspiration
half3of9.ttf - my 50% scaled version
client.bmp - the screenshot i see ona client machine (i.e. showing incorrectly)
mymach.bmp - screenshot of the windows font viewer from my machine
Could anyone help me in determining what I or FC4.1 has/hasnt done with the file? Im new to font editing, so it could be that the fault is entirely my own, but if it’s a bug in FC4.1 then this thread could be moved to the relevant forum.
Alternately, if anyone is capable (in approx 30 seconds) of resizing Fre3of9x.ttf to 50% of its current vertical height, i’d be very grateful. Feel free to include your name in the font, and email it to me, using matt att lexpos dott com as the email address, so that I can credit your work in the tool’s about box.. Please, dont spend a long time on doing this though (literally, i’m comfortable with asking other to do a thing for me only if it doesnt eat up too much of your working day)
regards
Matt
www.lexpos.com
the file will be placed at:
http://www.lexpos.com/pers/matt/font/problem.zip
in approximately 5 minutes
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