The latest versions of FontCreator makes this tip obsolete as validation errors are now shown in the Trouble-shooting category of the Overview Panel, but the tip is still useful for those with older versions.
Saving Font Validation Results
A few users have requested that the Font Validation results window be made non-modal so that it can be referred to while correcting errors, but for the reasons stated in this post it is not practical to do that.
Here is a work-around for the problem:-
- After running the validation wizard, click on the “Save as Text …” button. It doesn’t matter much where you save it, as we’re going to delete it very soon.
- Click on the button to save it again, which will open the file save dialogue in the same folder
- Select the previously saved file, right-click, and Edit it in Notepad (or whatever is your default text editor)
- Select all of the text, and copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl C)
- Close your text editor (Alt F4)
- Delete the previously saved file (press Delete)
- Cancel the save text file dialogue (Escape)
- Close the Font Validation Wizard (Escape)
- Open the User Notes Toolbar (Shortcut F2).
- Paste the clipboard contents (Ctrl V)
- Save your FontCreator project file (Ctrl S).
It may seem like a lot of steps, but it does not take long to do. You can now correct even a long list of validation errors that FontCreator was unable to fix automatically (usually Intersecting co-ordinates), deleting each error readout from the User Notes toolbar as you go.
