is there a troubleshooting section here for technical help? My FontLab has become corrupt so I am unable to use it. I need to restore it to exactly how it was, or it'll be a real pain to have to do it all again manually. Grateful for any help.
Hopefully you have a backup device in use that you can go back to a prior time prior to corruption? If not, locate your FLS5 portion of Library files to find all of your dependency files. After you reinstall, put these files back in the same path as before.
… if you have custom encoding files they may get overwritten. …
Right. One can easily store own encoding files at a safe place manually before trashing the application. I’d wish the same could be said about customized keyboard shortcuts.
In my experience, saved workspaces are among the main reasons that cause crashes in FontLab 5.x. Every time I tried to reapply a saved workspace, FL went crazy. So, after you customize FL's UI, keyboard shortcuts and so on, save a copy of the folder where configurations are (the same defined in Preferences > General Options > Folders and Paths). Almost all times, just restoring the folder does the job. And do not change the workspace from FL menu.
As other fellows already pointed, in this folder are also your encodings, scripts, macros, programs, etc. So an updated copy is always convenient.
The same approach is also useful with other applications, especially InDesign (whose recent versions are full of problems).
Comments
As other fellows already pointed, in this folder are also your encodings, scripts, macros, programs, etc. So an updated copy is always convenient.
The same approach is also useful with other applications, especially InDesign (whose recent versions are full of problems).
Support at FontLab (dot com).