[CLOSED] .notdef is gone!

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[CLOSED] .notdef is gone!

Post by Mike Thompson »

How is this to be explained. For most of my current projects, the first character is now named .null and has codepoints: $00, $08, $09, $0D, $1D
One of my projects still has the first glyph named: .notdef but with codepoints $08, $09, $1D
For all of these projects, this glyph still has the rectangle shape.

How might this have happened? I did not do it intentionally. All my released fonts have:
0x00 .notdef simple codepoints: empty
0x01 .null empty
0x02 space empty
0x03 nonmarkingreturn empty
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Re: .notdef is gone!

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Do you only use FontCreator 7.5 or do you also use other software?
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I have also used VOLT
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Re: .notdef is gone!

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FontCreator does 'fix' mappings on opening a font, but never deletes or reorders glyphs by it self.

So I'm puzzled about what happened, but we never intent to break things :?
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Re: .notdef is gone!

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I have been looking at past backups to find when the problem arose. At that time I was working in two
directories, one for FC editing of pure TT files and the second for VOLT work.
After each session of FC work I would copy the TT files to the directory for VOLT work.
I never copied files touched by VOLT into my working directory for FC work.

At about that time I was changing many glyph names to be the same in the FC7 project file
and in the VOLT .FTP file.

Anyhow I will go ahead to correct the first glyph in all my fonts using the Glyph Properties window.
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Re: .notdef is gone!

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Thank you for the additional information. Do let us know if this issue reappears.
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