Only Bold appears in MS Word

Ori Ben-Dor

This is a bit off topic, but I'm hoping someone here might be able to help.

There's this known issue with MS Office applications for Windows (as well as some other MS applications such as WordPad) where they sometimes show only one member from a font family. Just the Bold, for example.
Is there anything that can be done about it?
(I'm not asking how to avoid this problem when I create fonts of my own, but how to solve or overcome this problem with existing fonts.)
If there's no other way but to change metadata fields, what would be the safest way to change just what needed without touching anything else? I'm using Windows and I've got FL 5 (I can also install any freeware, of course).

TIA!

Nikola Kostic

I'm not sure but I think FontLab's TransType 4 is advertised to solve such problems.

Other than that, you can try it this way: https://forum.fontlab.com/fontlab-studio-tips-and-tricks/font-family-naming-in-fontlab-studio-5/?PHPSESSID=a107f8f935b9b591802a2c5d066e62a9

Good luck!

Ori Ben-Dor

@Nikola Kostic Thanks! If I change the name and save it in FL5, can I safely assume it won't change anything else (OT tables, etc.)?

Nikola Kostic

Safely!? LOL! Hopefully. To me, the family naming procedure resembles what I imagine dismantling a nuclear device looks like. It is easy if you know what you're doing.
I strongly urge you to try https://www.fontlab.com/font-converter/transtype/

Ori Ben-Dor

 

John Hudson

You definitely don't want to decompile and recompile a whole font just to change a name table entry. Better to use a tool like TTX to dump just the name table, change the name in the XML, and then fuse the edited table back into the font. Alternatively, if you prefer a tool with a UI, try DTL OTMaster, which allows you to touch individual parts of a font without affecting others.

Ori Ben-Dor

Thanks, John. I'll try this TTX.