Hello everyone,
I’m a newbie at font designing, and I have some problems with my new font, YF NotHand:
The font supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Runic and Hebrew.
The former four work fine, but Hebrew behaves strangely: when I type Hebrew text in certain programs, such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop, instead of getting the glyphs from my font it starts typing in Arial.
I haven’t designed niqqud nor cantillation, but that shouldn’t pose a problem, as I have seen many Hebrew fonts that work perfectly fine with neither of these.
I am using the Home Edition of FontCreator.
Another question: when I map the half-ounce glyph to its corresponding place in Plane 1 (U+1F773), the glyph gets mapped to U+F773 instead. Does anyone know how to fix this? This also applies to all other non-BMP codepoints.
For the Hebrew issues, I would check to make sure that you have the Unicode Character Range for Hebrew selected at Format:Settings:Ranges. Do the autocalculation, then slip into the edit dialogue and make sure that Hebrew is selected.
For your SMP issues, you need to make sure that you have a Cmap table that supports a full Unicode repertoire. Go to Format:Platform Manager and make sure you have the
“Unicode 2.0 and onwards, full” platform added. If not, add it (it is “Unicode/Unicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode full repertoire” in the add platform dialogue). After that, delete any mappings of your SMP characters, except in the Unicode,full platform (right click character:properties:mappings). That should do it.
If these don’t work, you can upload your font so we can take a look at it, if you don’t mind other people having access, but let us know if that solved your issues or not.
