Having recently purchased FontCreator, I followed the steps in your tutorial for creating a new font, giving it a simple name of Starmore. I made only one change in the steps you list, which was that, having created a basic glyph in Google Drawings and saving it as a .jpg file, I imported the single image into Font Creator in the upper-case A space. Following the instructions, I then installed the font. I then tested it in word processing programs only to discover that, when I opened the font list, my font showed up only as a blank line. In some cases it appeared with just the single glyph I created as the apparent name. I’ve been in the computer biz for over thirty yers, so I tested this effect carefully. Here are the tests I tried:
- Created and installed the font on a six-year old Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows 10 using the latest version of FontCreator, Version 13.0.0.2683.
- Tested the installed font in the current version of Microsoft Word, running as part of Office 365. The font appears as a blank line.
- Tested the font in Stitchmastery, which prefers True Type fonts. Here the font did not appear at all in the list of available fonts.
- Created and installed the font on a three-year old Razer Blade running Windows 10 using the same version of FontCreator.
- Tested the font in Apache’s OpenOffice 4 (version 4.1.5). The font appears as a blank line.
- Just for good measure, I again tested it in Office 365. Again, the font name appears as a blank line.
Interestingly, in both Word and OpenOffice, when I select the blank line in the font list, the name of the font appears in the font name window and the font works correctly.
I’m baffled. I noticed in your forum that you had several discussions of a similar problem in 2006, but your solutions don’t seem to apply to my situation.