Bonjour,
Thank you for lettin' me in. I found this website while I was looking for an answer to this question:
how come metrics differ between a design program and a layout program? And how can we fix it? I just made my 1st font with Font Forge. And when I test it in InDesign, the metrics are different than the ones I defined in Font Forge. It's a bit better if I export the font in true type instead of open type... but it's still different. Please find hereabove an illustration:
- in black (and behind), the metrics in Font Forge,
- in yellow, the font used in InDesign (got exported as a true type),
- and in magenta (on top) the font used in InDesign but exported as an open type.
Thank you!
Kind regards,
Samuel Durt
Comments
Okay, next step would be to check the metrics of the compiled fonts to the metrics of your source. I would try to do this using a different tool than the one you use to generate the font, i.e. don’t just open the OTF or TTF in the same design tool as your source. Ideally, use something like OTMaster, so you can check the actual binary data.
This step is to confirm that the issue is not due to a problem in the font generation, rather than a problem in InDesign.
Sorry, I had not noticed that there were answers.
Maybe I should share it.
Does OPM mean EM? Then it's 1000 indeed. For the OTF. I changed it for the True Type.
Or ever. TrueType has always been able to have arbitrary UPM.