I was working on a font and wanted to safe the font. This wasn´t possible.
The egg-timer was going round and round and on top of the window was
the nice message “No contact”.
I had to shutdown the machine and starting anew.
Then I wanted to go one with my font, but this doesn´t exist anymore in
the list of Font Creator!!!??? In the font list of Windows the font exists, but
when I want to see it I get the message “This isn´t a True Type fonts” and
the font has only 1 Byte!?
Is it possible to get back the font with a trick?
Otherwise I have to create the font once more and that costs a week.
Thank you for answering ( I hope soon ) in advance.
Sincerely
H.-Dieter Viel ( Hammurabi )
p.s.: It would be very helpful if the creator would safe the work automa-
tically as the Word program.
Sorry about your problem. We all have experienced this I’m sure.
I don’t know of a way for FC to restore your font. Having FC do a periodic save would have helped but that’s not a feature in the current version.
I also don’t know if a version of your font might be around in some buffer someplace on your computer. You might try scanning your drives for pieces of the font name === I’m really not all sure this would ever work.
I’m a strong practitioner in making interim backups of all the fonts I’m working on, because you can never tell when you might need to go to a clean version, as in your case due to a machine malfunction, or due to some change you made which was disasterous. If you do it frequently enough you will not lose too much effort if your computer dies. It’s a good habit to get into.
This may be good advice for the next font you work on, but won’t necessarily help you now unless your formal backup was recent.
Do you have a system restore point you could go back to? It probably wouldn’t have the latest version of your font, but it might have more than 1 byte.
I do run an automatic daily backup which stores off all my fonts in progress which I save for 7 days until I run a more extensive weekly backup. The fact that it’s run on a schedule means it gets done whether I remember or not and the latest version of a font “in progress” is never more than a day old.
I can only sympathize with your problem and not give you the answer you we seeking.
To enable auto backup click Options on the Tools menu and then click the Font tab. Here select Always create backup copy (bak).
This will copy the previous version of a font file as a backup copy every time you save a font. Each new backup copy replaces the previous backup copy. Font Creator saves the backup copy (with a file name extension .bak) in the same folder as the original and adds a special header to the file.
To restore to the backup file open it in Font Creator and save it back with the ttf extension.
