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[CLOSED] .notdef is gone!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 12:56 pm
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
Re: .notdef is gone!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 1:09 pm
by Erwin Denissen
Do you only use FontCreator 7.5 or do you also use other software?
Re: .notdef is gone!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 1:58 pm
by Mike Thompson
I have also used VOLT
Mike
Re: .notdef is gone!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 2:09 pm
by Erwin Denissen
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
Re: .notdef is gone!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 2:29 pm
by Mike Thompson
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.
Mike
Re: .notdef is gone!
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 2:31 pm
by Erwin Denissen
Thank you for the additional information. Do let us know if this issue reappears.