[Newbie]: problems with a modified font

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I have to modify an existing font: the publisher’s house sent me the .otf files and I made some changes, for example I designed a small latin zed with a dot below, in place of the Yen simbol, that I know will be unused. We’ve got some problems: first of all, when the font is installed in Windows, MS Word shows the font preview a little blurred both in the font menu and in the Insert Symbol screen. I made some search around, it seems a hinting problem but I do not know how to solve it. But this is the small problem. The great problem is that when the publisher’s house - that works on Macintosh - installs the font, they continue to view the old font, i.e. they see the Yen symbol instead of the font I modified. I made some try installing the font on a Mac Mini of my own, and while the simple .rtf editor sees the new font in the right way, Adobe InDesign CS, for example, shows it the old way… could it be a mapping problem, or not? and if so, how do I fix it? for example in the Character to Glyph Index Mappings windows there is no way to add an item that’s originally not foresee, i.e. a small latin zed with a dot below.. but maybe this is not THE problem..

Any idea?

thanks a lot
Giampaolo

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FontNuke, a free utility on Mac OS X, might solve the problem. It removes numerous font cache files including system font caches, Adobe font caches (*.lst), Microsoft Office font caches, and QuarkXPress 6.x/7.x font cache files.

Use at you own risk:
http://www.jamapi.com/pr/index.html

Hope this helps.

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Doesn’t the otf change to ttf with a Font Creator change? So those pgms are reading the old file.

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You can add the correct mappings for z dot below from the Glyph Properties, Mappings dialogue. Click on Select, choose the appropriate character set (Latin Extended Additional in this case), then select the character mappings to add.
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