| I was asked for help to find out why certain glyphs did not show up when
they were used in a word processor. Now, I had been asked before about this,
In fact, the glyph that was not showing up was the same one, the apostrophe,
but, with this font, the quotation mark was also not showing up. After getting
a copy of the font, I started to look over the font before I touched any
of the glyphs. The first part of this piece will be the different things
that I noticed about the font and it's structure. |
 I first opened the font in Fontview
and right away, I noticed that there was little to no spacing between the
glyphs. |
 I then opened the font in Softy and
started to check the information on the font that was entered upon the creation.
I notice that the Metrics was set very low, In fact, I found glyphs that
had larger em's than this. I think the 547 was the Average width of the glyphs
in this set. |
 I continued looking into the font to
see if there was anything else that might be a source of trouble. I noticed
that the first space the blank (ASCII 32) was set to a width of 500, since
this is used, Every blank space is an ASCII 32 character, so this seemed
to be under sized to me. (Remember, every glyph can use a width of
2048, I myself, have reduced the ASCII 32 to a width of 1000 but never to
500). Sometimes this makes for a funny looking font (width of 2048) , so
you under space the glyphs, but then, you run the risk of going the other
way and not leaving enough room for the glyph, Which is what I was now beginning
to think was wrong with this font, But, I was not finished looking around
yet. |
 The following graphics show what I found
through out the font. The glyphs were spaced to the absolute minimun, and
there was residual residue from the scan left in the font. Now, I was told
that this was their first attempt at making a font, and a nice one at that.
When I was trying to make dingbats for my own use, I went through much of
the same thing (In my case, I think patience had a lot to do with it), So
I guess what I am trying to say is, You can never be to careful while you
are trying to make fonts. |
 You know, you can make the window where
the glyphs are displayed larger, just put your mouse on the divider and when
it turns to the double arrow you can click and drag it to a larger size,
this would allow you to see the small pieces of residue. Now, I will tell
you, you can get rid of this residue. Here is how. |
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