Hi,
I have been trying to figure this out for a while now:
My font (highlighted) shows up with oriental preview characters and shows up in the font menu in its own category, even though it is a standard Latin font. This behavior started suddenly, without any changes to anything but glyphs. Does anybody have any idea why? I have been through the font info carefully, but do not see anything missing or out of place.
(I am working on WIndows version of Fontlab Studio 5.2)
Thank you
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Complete mystery to me.
Of course, if you did not change anything here, it shouldn't cause such problem. But it may be a bug of FL 5.2 (I am using Mac and FL 5.1.5).
ttx -t OS/2 <whatever.ttf>
For future reference: Just as in Igor's case I suspect the unicode ranges were not flagged correctly. If you happen to run into a similar problem, it's worth checking that first.
The font looks alright in the preview window now, but it still shows up in the wrong place in the font menu. (Only in Illustrator. InDesign and other programs don't seem to have any issues.)
I have tried everything I can think of to fix the issue. Changing the naming, encoding etc. I even copied only the Latin glyphs into a new font file. The issue persists. Now that does not make sense to me. It must be some basic setting in the naming I am getting wrong. I haven't had this problem with the other half-dozen fonts I have built.
Belleve Invis asked:
Could you please send the result of
ttx -t OS/2 <whatever.ttf>
But I'm not sure how to do that. Is ttx -t a script?
This is driving me nuts.
You should get roughly the same sort of information and slightly more friendly, in the OS/2 section of the report from running font validator also.
Or just e-mail the font to one of us and let us have a look...
But check in FontInfo > Encoding and Unicode > Unicode ranges and see if there are any oddballs checked, like “CJK Compatibility Forms” or something like that.
Also, when you’re testing installation, you will probably want to clear your font cache each time, just to make sure Adobe re-evaluates completely.