I have a font with some glyphs that looks like this:
And when I try to export it, it works on webfont, but as for the desktop: the glyph looks empty.
I tried the Font Validation Wizard and found the intersecting coordinates (961.9, 2299.1), but my glyph have like billions of points, so its very hard to find.
I have to play guess until I find it. https://imgur.com/5LyhfMu (look for example of my search)
If it was one glyph or two, that would be ok. But I have like 20 and some of them have 10+ intersecting coordinates.
Is it possible to make a double click on the coordinate number (961.9, 2299.1) to quickly select that coordinate?
Double-click already works to go to problematic nodes. Zoom in a bit first so that it is only one of a few in view.
Setting the fill outline to anything less than 100% Black also helps a lot.
Right! I wasn’t aware of the Validation window (not the validation wizard).
Cool, so I learned something new.
So now I found a different problem.
I fixed the wrong contours and as you can see, there are “no problems detected” in the validation tool:
(although it says in the title “glyph to complex”. does that have an affect?)
Problem is when I try to export it to desktop (press f5), the glyph (glyph: one, index: 18)doesn’t show anything.
I tried to get rid of some points (glyph: three, index: 20), and it doesn’t show up either.
I tried to get rid some more points (glyph: two, index: 19) and the glyph finally showed up.
Is there a limit on points per glyph or something like that?
To reproduce the problem
- download the attached font
- click F5 (to install a temp font)
- write “123”. you’ll see that glyph “2” shows up, and the others don’t.
And oddly enough, glyph “2” actually has errors, and it still shows up:
I’m using FC13 and windows 10.
kishut brush test.fcp (108 KB)
Problem solved when I changed my font resolution from 1000 to 4096
A new question: Is there a way to change a font resolution (1000 → 4096) without the need to re-modify the anchor points and redo the mark positioning, kerning, everything?
EDIT: I found a partial solution here for resizing: http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/resizing-fonts-and-changing-units-per-em-values/334/1
But still I need to re-do my guide positioning, mark positioning and kern again. is there a solution for that too?
See Tools, Options, Validation to increase the limits for detecting problems. It will slow down browsing through glyphs if validation is enabled.
I don’t know any way of changing the funits/em value without having to change kerning and anchor positioning.
1000 funits per em is too low for fonts with fine detail. 2048 is now the recommended value. If you’re changing it, you might as well change it to 4096 to make sure you don’t need to do it again.
Optimizing the glyph (context menu in contour mode) will reduce the number of points.
I understand
Thank you for the detailed message!