Hi everybody,
I'm writing here because after trying everything found on the web I still can't solve a problem.
I'm testing in Adobe Illustrator a new typeface I'm designing with FontForge.
The problem is that a few glyphs aren't showing, if I click on the "Glyphs" panel they are missing.
Another strange thing is that for different weights, different glyphs aren't showing.
Examples:


When installing the .otf everything looks ok:


And when I type those letters I get nothing, like shown here:

I exported with these settings:

After many tests I found that when I generate fonts with these options (Hints + Flex Hints) the problem doesn't exist (but I don't want them, then the text doesn't look good):

Things I already tried:
- Deleting and reinstalling the fonts
- Rebooting
- Delete Windows Font Cache
- Delete all "adobefnt.lst" files
No matter what, if I export without hints I always get the missing glyphs problem in Adobe Illustrator.
However, in WordPad and GIMP there aren't problems.
I'm a few years into type design, but doing it just in my free time I can't progress rapidly so maybe that's a noob question! Having searched on TypeDrawers history I haven't found the solution.
Just an apparently similar problem with an alternate, but it was about the "aalt feature".
Do any of you have any idea what the problem might be?
Thank you
Comments
And a few "Missing Points at Extrema", but not for the glyphs involved in the problem
It already had a check mark on it, I tried again but didn't work.
I checked the layers and nothing seems wrong to me, all the glyphs are designed in "Fore":
(E is not working, F yes)
It adds a very tiny space (less than 5% of the width of the letter, measured with ruler on screen), but just the first time.
Let's say that I type "WEEEEE", it appears as "W", not "W ".
And I must click backspace 6 times to delete the W, so the 5 Es are counted but not showing.