I trying to reuse some old ttf fonts that were created with old versions of FontCreator (a mixture of version 3.0 and 5.5). I was struggling to get a particular tool to accept them, so I tried loading them up in the latest (evaluation) version of FontCreator to see if it could flag up any issues with them. Straight away from launch the left hand filter tree included an “Invalid Characters” section under “Troubleshooting”. This appears to include every character in the font.
Separately I ran the validation wizard which found various “Validation Issues” which I was able to fix (without exporting), but this doesn’t seem to have impacted the “Invalid Characters”. I don’t understand what rules/errors cause characters to appear in the “Invalid Characters” section, I have searched through the documentation and there doesn’t seem to be any mention of it. Has anyone got any suggestions of what to look for?
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I don’t think I am permitted to upload the font, so this might make it quite difficult. I have looked at a few glyphs marked as invalid and not found any so far that got outside of the visible glyph area, though its possible that is causing some of them to be invalid and I have just not found any examples of that yet.
Looking at one of the ttf fonts I have found something that might be interesting. It has 56 glyphs and only 1 is included in the “Invalid Characters” section. The invalid glyph “fraction” is blank/empty. There are also several other glyphs that appear to be empty which are not included in the “Invalid Characters” section. I think all the blank glyphs are intentional, not sure why though. Can you think of anything to look for to compare between an empty invalid glyph and an empty valid glyph?
Does the “Invalid Characters” filter get re-evaluated whenever a glyph is edited or do I need to run something like the validation wizard to update it?
I agree the “fraction” glyph being blank/empty is odd. At the moment though I am just trying to understand what rules the “Invalid Characters” category is checking for, so that I can try and bottom out all the issues these fonts have.
The “fraction” glyph as you say is included in the “Incomplete Characters” section as it is empty, but it is also in the invalid section at the same time. It doesn’t seem that being incomplete is sufficient for a glyph to be considered invalid as there are other empty glyphs in the font that have been put into the “Incomplete Characters” section without being put into the “Invalid Characters” section. Adding a small circle in the centre of the drawing area on the empty valid glyphs is enough for them to be automatically removed from the incomplete characters section, but it does not remove the “fraction” from the invalid section.
I understand if you are unable to provide much advice without a sample, I was just hoping you might be able to list some of the things that the “Invalid Characters” section is checking for. Thanks.
