I am building fonts that must work both in a PC and a Macintosh environment. The Mac applications are mostly Adobe CS5 or higher. These applications all expect an OpenType name for the fonts.
As near as I have been able to determine, FontCreator will give me the font naming that a PC application needs, but not an OpenType name and style.
Obviously, I am probably missing something. Could you give me some direction on where to go in the manual to find the answers?
Thanks
When saving the font, or afterwards, you can rename the extension from *.ttf to *.otf.
I have no idea if this is enough for the Mac to recognise the font as OpenType, but Windows is quite happy to use such fonts without digital signing. Adding digital signing to give the font an OpenType icon is an expensive proposition.
How to get an OpenType icon on a OpenType TTF Flavored font file?
When adding OpenType Features with the OpenType Compiler as described in this tutorial, the *.ttf font is renamed with an *.otf extension. My free fonts use this method.