Questions

Maybe this is not the right place to post this little problem, but I encountered the following problem while learning my new copy of FontLab and OpenType: I opened a Macintosh Type 1 "Eurostile" font from Adobe to follow the technical stuff in the manual - the Eurostile-Oblique in particular (as an example)- and noticed that this font wasn't "oblique" at all in FontLab! Is this a bug in FontLab? Or is there something wrong with my original Adobe font "Eurostile" ? Or is there a way to build fonts that are in fact regular and gets "slanted on the fly" by software or fontmanagers?

Dear FDK developers, how do I control the encoding in the CFF table? I would like to create an OTF with a custom CFF encoding vector since Illustrator 10 uses this information instead of the cmap table. Adam

Hallo, how can I include a larger text into a font file structured with line breaks? e.g. nameid 10 "TEXT01 line break TEXT02"; nameid 10 1 "TEXT01 line break TEXT02"; Andreas

The new FDK version 1.6 introduces some new entries to the feature file for the OS/2 table. One is the "CodePageRange". Codepages can now be declared explicitly in the syntax by specifying the codepage number(s). Two questions about this: 1. How is the Macintosh Character Set (US Roman) 'codepage' specified? It simply has no codepage number. Is it possible to directly declare the bit that should be set? This bit isn't automatically calculated and set by MakeOTF even though all characters in that 'codepage' is present in the font (MS FontValidator complain about this) 2. Is it possible, in the new syntax introduced in 1.6, to prevent codepage bits from being set in the font? Hypothetically if MakeOTF calculates a codepage to be included that you do not want to be set. /mårten

A new release (v1.6.6148) of the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType has just been posted at: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/type/otfdk/main.html This includes some minor changes in the feature file syntax, slightly better documentation for the MakeOTF tool, a complete installation procedure for Mac OSX 10.2.4, addition of the "Unicode and Glyph Names" documentation under the FDK license, and minor bug fixes. The most important change has to do with the handling of contextual substitution layout rules. MakeOTF now includes an option to create these either correctly, according to the OpenType specification v1.4, or in the older format used by InDesign v2.0 and earlier. This option is now tied to some additional logic, such that if you build a font to be compatible with InDesign v2.0 and earlier, some special text will appear in the name table named-id 5 "Version" . This text will serve as a marker that the font uses the InDesign v2.0 compatible format for these rules, an

This might be the wrong forum but i presume that font devolpers visit this forum. I miss arrows in »normal« opentype fonts as MinionPro or MyriadPro. To my opinion one left, right, up and down arrow are sufficient and there should be enough character slots in an optentype font for it. It is great to use greek and latin characters from the same font ? without symbol. It will be greater to renounce Dingbats too.

Dear FDK Developers, it`s possible to add an option to show the estimated time if the option "Subroutinize" is active? I had some fonts all glyphs build form the same small elements. So a font using the "Subroutinize" option is 80kb and without 370kb - but it takes hours to build it. (System: AMD 1GHz) A system to store and remember the calculated "subroutinizments" (pre coded temp file) for a project could speed up the things a lot. But this is a way to far or? ;-) Andreas

Hi, I'm working on a font, that has an alternate 'a'. The second version isn't a swash-character or anything, it's just a different design. Does open type have a feature to switch between these two, and at the same time changing related characters (ä,á, etc.)? I had trouble finding info about this ... Kind regards, Jimmi

I am having problems importing OT kerning tables into InDesign 2 using the EditOTF Metrics plugin on both MacOSX and XP. I get a log message saying that T_TAG in Kern is missing. Can anyone upload a kerning table feature file that can be parsed with EditOTF Metrics?

Hi, I am having some difficulty with getting two Opentype layout features to work in Indesign 1.5 and Photoshop 6. The liga feature works perfectly, but dlig and clig don't (though they preview correctly in Fontlab 4.5.1). I have generated the font as a CFF-flavoured OTF font using either Macintosh, Windows ANSI or FL's standard encoding but the problem remains. Yet all the glyphs are available under Indesign's "insert character" dialog box. When I opened the generated font in Fontlab, the features work as expected. Putting all the lookups in the liga feature didn't solve the problem either (and every glyph has a Unicode number attached to it). Do the alternate glyphs need to be named according to their Unicode index? I am using MacOS 9.2 with ATM Deluxe 4.6.1. Regards, David Philpott Feature files: feature clig{ # Contextual Ligatures # Latin sub T h by Thlig; sub T T by TTlig; sub T E by TElig; sub C O by CO; sub C I by CI; sub L A by LA; } clig; feature dlig{ # Discre

Which Python is recommended for using the latest OT FDK under Mac OS 9.2.x? I have MacPython 2.2.2 installed on my PowerBook G4 with MacOS 9.2.2, and I got some strange crashing bugs. Bumping up the memory allocation in the interpreter to 100MB did not help (I am not doing CJK subroutinization, so I don't need lots of memory). I can provided more details upon request (including a MacsBug stdlog, if needed). Regards, Tom

Hallo, Every (or mostly) italic fonts generated by the FDK give the the following error code from the MS Fontvalidator. E2136 ySubscriptXOffset is less than zero -11 Is this a real problem? Andreas

Hello, it`s possible to generat an ASCII dump like the folloing with the proofing tools? glyhename leftsitebearing rightsitebearing totalspace I need it for a two color font project - so every counterpart font must have the same spacing and metrics. TTX (htmx table) makes a good job, but the right side bearing is not displayed and it crashes with most of my fonts. But this is an ohter problem. :-) Just (OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int) Andreas

Dear OTFDK developers, how can I create a Type 1 font that can be used as basis for an OTF font with UPM > 1000? I thought Type 1 fonts can only have UPM of 1000... Adam

Hey, I wanted to make my own font and was looking into Open Type..is this something a newbie like myself should consider? Basically, I have a font drawn on paper, I then take it into stream line and then to Illustrator where I tweak it. What font creation software do you use? I know about MM's Fontographer and then a couple other ones from like 50-100 bucks. Any info you guys can pass along would help.

Is it possible to influence which codepages and Unicode ranges that will be included in a font compiled with MakeOTF? It seems that the compiler detects those values automatically by checking the glyph/character set in the font that is to be compiled instead of reading the data from the feature or fontinfo files. Thanks, /mårten

Maybe for the future - MakeOTF should order all unicode glyphs not be specified in the adobe glyph list by its unicode values. I have done roman numerals and if I use the "insert glyph" dialog from InDesign the glyphs are unordered. So I have to do it manually. Think the application should order the glyphs - but to avoid any problems it should be done in the production. Or is it possible with the current build of MakeOTF? Andreas Seidel

Hello, makeotflib [WARNING] subr stack depth exceeded (reduced) Is this a problem of my feature code or more an information statment of MakeOTF? Anything to do? Andreas

Hello,<br /><br />Is there any strategy available to avoid that MakeOTF can`t access some<br />kernings?<br /><br />makeotflib [WARNING] <FONT_X> Start of new pair positioning subtable<br />; some pairs may never be accessed: [r r.alt]<br /><br />If I write the (subtable;) command I can "fix" this message but the<br />generated code is invalid.<br /><br />An other option is to split every kernig group into single kernigs, but<br />this is an enormous task and a new source of failures.<br /><br /><br /> <br />Andreas

Hi, I am looking for Chinese fonts and input editor for my Win 2000 PC running Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 and Illustrator 10. Any suggestions? Appreciate it...

Windows XP Extracted FDK 1.5 to C:\Program Files\OpenType FDK Installed Python 2.3 alpha 1 to C:\Program Files\OpenType FDK\Python 2.3 Installed WinTTX 2.0b1 When trying to install Numeric-22.0.win32-py2.2.exe and FFTPACK2-3.1.win32-py2.2.exe The message received was 'Python 2.2 not found in the registry' Is there a problem with 2.3 instead of 2.2 or I did something wrong? Are the last two apps necessary? Help! :(

I build PDFs using php, and I need CE fonts (diacritics-romanian ones) for Acrobat 4.X or later. Please someone tell me where from can I download them, or send them to me by e-mail! Lots of Thanks!

I was wondering whether there are already Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean and Turkish OTF versions vailable on the market. I know the Japanese OTF fonts are available.

Thanks to Thomas for his reply to my earlier questions. As of known today, is there any language not supported by OTF? I know the key issue is whether that language supports Unicode format. Can someone share some insight on this topic? Any input is appreciated. Yanling

Given: MyFont Regular MyFont Caption Regular MyFont Subhead Regular MyFont Display Regular which all have the same weight, width and style, what values do you supply for Postscript and TTF names to cause the operating system and apps to see these fonts as individual fonts and as members of one family. I have in mind the Adobe Pro Optical OTFs which show up in a font menu under one family name, with the individual typefaces appearing in the families' sub menu.