I have searched the threads of this forum and haven’t seen this issue addressed yet. I’m hoping for some help and will give a little background first.
I have licensed fonts for use in an online design tool. As such, I needed to edit some of the fonts down into subsets in order to allow our users to access some of the special characters that are not available in the first 26 characters of the alphabet. So, I basically split one Open Type font family down into 3 True Type fonts. To do this, I created 3 new files and copied and pasted the characters I wanted into the first 5 rows of each, up to the exclamation point. I then saved the font as Burgues Script Stylistic.ttf, Burgues Script Swash.ttf, and Burgues Script Titling.ttf.
After installing the font on my computer, it displayed perfectly in all of my computer programs and printed perfectly as well, so I was very happy at how easy this process was. However, after having our IT department install the font on the server, I find that it displays very poorly and cannot seem to figure out why. I’ll attach a screen shot of the font as displayed in our online design tool. On the left-hand side is the font as it displays in a web browser and on the right is the font as it should appear. I appreciate any direction you can offer.
By copying the glyphs to a new font, you lost the hinting.
Instead, save the original font three times with three names, and delete the glyphs that you don’t need from each.
If you need to add the mappings to the Alternate glyphs so that your users can access them, copy the glyphs with the desired mappings before you delete them, and use “Paste Special” to paste the mappings to the alternate glyphs (which probably don’t have any mappings),without copying the glyph outlines or metrics, overwriting the existing mappings.
Ok, I had a feeling that hinting would be the issue. Just to be clear though, when I copy a glyph, then choose paste special from the edit menu, do I need to uncheck “glyph outline data” and “glyph metrics” in addition to checking off “glyph postscript” and “glyph mappings”? I really appreciate your help!
Sonja
The other way, if you haven’t already discovered it, is to copy the glyphs and glyph metrics from the Alternate glyphs over the glyphs mapped to the ASCII characters.
If these ASCII glyphs are used by composite glyphs such as À É Î Õ Ü, it might be necessary to adjust the positions of the accents over the composite glyphs.
Since the problems are only on sections of the UC letters, wonder if something else is going on? It appears that some points were dropped from these letters which caused the bulges and disappearing curves.
That worked, however, now I am seeing only some of the fonts actually render as they should when I pull up the test window. The rest default to a Myriad looking font. For instance the capital “C” looks good but “A & B” default to this other typeface. Please see the attached example. Any help is much appreciated!
