Open the font Tuffy in both Main Type and Font Creator and display Unicode 215 Multiplication sign.
In Main Type a error dialog appears “Access violation 74DC2645 in module ‘USP10.dll’. Read of address 00000006.” The appearance of the glyph seems ok.
In Font Creator, there is no error message but the glyph is very small.
I downloaded the Tuffy family afresh from http://tulrich.com/fonts/ but did not install it.
In Main Type using the Browse window to look at each font, I received the same error message as above. The frquent appearance of the message dialog impairs work.
Opening Tuffy (regular) in Font Creator, the multiplication sign looks like a small plus sign positioned near the base line. It was only 185 units high.
It didn’t cause any access violation for me in MainType, but it is certainly exhibits some very odd behaviour. It is rotated 45° in MainType, but not in Font Creator.
The inverted Spanish ¿ and ¡ are also a bit unusual in that they use rotation to invert the glyphs. I suspect that another program has been used to rotate the × sign as a composite of the + sign.
The exception is either due to a bug in the dll (knwon as the Uniscribe Unicode script processor), or a bug in the font. You could try to “install” a newer release of this dll. Because of Windows auto restore feature it is very hard to replace the dll. The easiest thing to do, is get a newer release and place it in the MainType application folder (e.g. in C:\Program Files\High-Logic\MainType).
Because I would like to reproduce this, do let me know what version you have in C:\WINDOWS\system32 and what operating system you are running.
This info might help:
I have version 1.420.2600.2180 located in C:\WINDOWS\system32
I have a later version in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE11
FontCreator does not support all possible transformations that can be applied to composite glyph members. Right now you can only rotate 90, 180 and 270 degrees. I’ll make sure this is fixed with the next upcoming release.
Guess I’ll have to steal multiplication sign from somewhere else!
What’s stopping you rotating the plus sign by 45° ? That is all that the font’s author did, but using a method not yet supported by Font Creator apparently. You could resize it first, since it is not quite square, then rotate it with the transform tool.