I have downloaded font creator version 5.0, and modified the helvetica light font glyph superscripted a to superscripted er. When I save the font as a ttf everything appears fine. When I try and use the newly modified glyph it appears as a blank character.
I had gone into the naming wizard and added the work test to the begining of the font name, saved it to my destkop and then opened control panel and draged the font from my desktop to the fonts folder.
Sorry it’s taken so long to respond to your message.
I might need some clarification here.
When you say “When I save the font as a ttf everything appears fine” – are you referring to the modify and save actions, not necessarily the view of the glyph? Did you get the font from the Windows/Font folder? Did you rename it before saving? There would be “issues” if you answer yes/no…
Also; did you see your work while you were designing it in the Test Font (F5) window? Since you’ve worked with an unusual character you may have to add it to the font preview which is alt+0170 (ª) – not the most obvious letter to use for a first test in my opinion!
Putting this in Font Preview will allow you to check your progress.
If you used an existing glyph and just changed the shape nothing should be wrong – if it displayed before it should display after.
If you added a new glyph as well as setting the Left Side Bearing and Advanced Width, you would also have to assign the character mapping for decimal 170 (hex 00AA). Without this map, nothing would show. (Right click on the glyph, select Properties. Go to Mappings. Then it can be complicated depending upon the Platforms selected (187 in Mac, 170 Microsoft).
What program were you using to display the character? Is it one that would have displayed the superscript a? Using the original unchanged font was this character shown (nee FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR)?
When you renamed the font did you see your new name when you tested it? If you did, good. If not, then you might have to restart the using program.
Font Creator is a great help in installing a font. See Font/Install. It asks all the right questions and should be used. You can quickly mess up Windows/Fonts folder by yourself.
A bunch of things have to be “lined up” for a font to work correctly. Any of the pieces could cause it to fail.
Since “it works fine in all of my programs” it must be publisher! To test that it’s them and not you, select another font that’s got your “simple and dbl glyphs” and see if that works. At this point it’s likely to be publisher – so go see the vendor and demand your money back!
Dick Pape
ps if you have time tell me what are “simple and dbl glyphs”? dp
kbolton send me the font last week. It works just fine on my machine running Windows XP. I’ve also send her a Word document with a sample “superscripted a” text. That most likely has solved her problem.
