Earlier this morning I started a thread in the Gallery forum about my End of Proof font.
All was well with producing the font and testing it. However, when I checked the links in the post the font does not show properly.
I checked when I did it that I uploaded the font to the web as a binary file.
I have since deleted the font from the web and uploaded it again, but the problem is still there.
The font worked well on this local PC and, as far as I can tell, is fine. However, maybe something about it being just one displayable glyph might have led to the problem, though .notdef, nonmarkingreturn and space are all in the font.
Even stranger, when I accepted the download as ENDPROOF.html and then changed the suffix of the file, after it had been downloaded to a directory on the local hard drive, to TTF and then opened the file using FontCreator 5.6, it validated!
I would suspect the same issue with every font you try to download. Anyway let us know your results. Also you might want to try a different browser (e.g. Mozilla Firefox).
The problem which I experienced with the original font appears to be resolved with this font.
I added the extra glyph after the space character and then did a copy and paste special, with all four checkboxes ticked, of the exclamation mark glyph from the Angle 004 font to the End of Proof Experimental font and I then copied the glyph design for the END OF PROOF character within the End of Proof Experimental font.
After posting I checked that the link to the font was working and tried it from the new post.
I got the strange effect of lots of gibberish text on a web page, rather than the expected Windows dialogue panel asking “Do you want to open or save this file?”.
The other links to the same font file do the same.
Trying a right click with Save Target As… offers to save a file SONNETRL.htm as an HTML document.
I have tried uninstalling the font locally (it had been installed during testing, before uploading a copy to the web: uploading being from the development folder, not from the fonts folder) and trying again, yet this seems to make no difference.
This does not appear to be anything to do with the link from this forum. I manually keyed the whole link for the font directly into Internet Explorer and got the same result as a left click on the link from the forum.
I am wondering why this is happening. Can anyone spot anything in the font file which could be causing this strange effect? Does anyone else get this effect? Could it be some problem with how the font is stored on the server? I uploaded it by ftp using binary. I did not delete the previous version first, but I have uploaded “on top of” with various fonts previously with no problems: also this effect has occurred when new fonts have been uploaded.
Puzzled at present, yet wondering if there is some simple explanation behind this effect.
