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I loaded Tahoma and saved as KTahoma. I edited a single glyph (To edit that glyph I had to use the Edit/Make Simple), and saved again. I did not use AutoNaming to change the font name.
I moved Tahoma from my Font directory.
I moved KTahoma to my Font directory.
Menus started displaying with a thicker weight.
As far as I can tell… merely touching this font with FontCreator has changed its stroke weight. Is there a reason for this? Is there a way to avoid this?
Hi Kevin
Fussing with installed fonts can be a problem. Most of what you talked about should work however simply overlaying your font on top of their font does not.
Regardless of what you call the file name Windows looks to the internal font name to see what it is. It can get confused. You didn’t rename the font therefore it was still Tahoma.
You say “moved”, but fonts are hooked to the Registry so there has to be “Install” and “Delete” type actions here. (Moving leaves the Registry instruction intact.) You have to let the Fonts routines Delete the first one from the Windows folder and then Install the second one as if it was a new font.
There are nuances of “reboot” in there – I haven’t done enough of this to know exactly when to reboot but if nothing else works, a reboot always straightens out confusions. This resets the Registry along the way and regenerates whatever other internal tables the operating system sets up.
Making a single glyph simple should only affect that character and not the rest of the font. You will loose hinting on that character. Autonaming will change nothing if you’ve not modified the Name of the font (Format/Naming).
I would recommend you let Font Creator do the delete and install. It does a lot of checking to make sure things are setup properly.