I’m missing my " and ’ in word. I have read the FAQs and found that I need to “add outlines”. I am confused as to what this means. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
Apparently your glyph windows for these two characters are empty.
Open any font that has " and ’ in it, copy them to the clip board and paste them into the empty glyphs.
Or make another font the Sample, and drag them in from the left hand side.
Or use Add Contour to draw new ones the way you like them.
Or … You will find there are many ways to do whatever you want.
This may well be another example of a problem which arises in the forum from time to time.
The following dates from New Year’s Eve just over a year ago.
http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/single-quote-mark-not-printing-in-corel-draw-or-word/1136/1
That thread refers to “row 15 column 12 and row 16 colums 1, 2 and 3” but that was when FontCreator 5.0 was displaying at 12 cells per row on the PC which I was using then.
I have just checked, starting a new font, using FontCreator 5.5 on this present machine and it is displaying 11 cells per row, so it is now row 17 columns 4, 5, 6 and 7 here.
The four places could perhaps be shown elsewhere on other PCs.
The easiest way to find them is to look for the place for OE, which is then followed by the place for oe, and then the place for endash and then the place for emdash then the four glyphs for which you need to add designs in order that ’ and " come out in the Word program.
I hope that this helps.
William Overington
Hi William,
Long time no hear, I’m glad to see you’re back!
There are two ways to overcome this; you can change the cell size or you can resize the main Window.
I think this problem is partly due to that Word (at least my version) has the default setting to replace straight quotes with smart quotes, so if you think that you have made glyphs for " and ’ in the cells appearing somewhere on the first row in a font windows in FontCreator, Word will promptly replace them with smart quotes (that apparently have glyphs appearing on row 17 or 15 depending on how many cells per row your FontCreator displays). Turning smart quotes of in Word would then help. But a much better solution is, as has been suggested, to actually add the glyphs to your font in FontCreator.
Thapper