Font not kerning as it should

[Baron Von Cruzer]

Okay I've exhausted every possible solution I could think of.

This is how these fonts look in the Metrics Window under Kerning mode.


Novaburst


Gorilla City


Gorilla City Italic


Gorilla City Bold Italic

After generating OpenType PostScipt fonts, this is how they look in Illustrator CS3 (Tiger PowerPC)


Novaburst


Gorilla City


Gorilla City Italic


Gorilla City Bold Italic

[Baron Von Cruzer]

Gorilla City is the only one kerning the way I want (Well, mostly). The others are not. Interestingly, the errors are in the same letter pairs in the three affected fonts.

Solutions I've tried include regenerating the kern feature using the commands found in the metrics window and the OpenType panel. I've tried this several times. Each time completely renaming fonts, and using a program called "FontNuke" to purge my font caches.

Lastly I've copied the glyphs into new FontLab files, and recreating the kerning, with a completely different name, and after purging my font caches. Alas the newly generated OpenType files are still behaving in the same manner.

If anyone wants to analyze my FontLab files for the errors, here they are:

http://homepage.mac.com/baronvoncruzer/comic_pack_problems/the_uncanny_cyberian_khatru_comic_pack.zip

[Ray Larabie]

If you only have one OT feature, InDesign, you provide you with zero OT features. I suggest adding something useless like:

feature liga {
  sub zero slash zero by percent;
} liga;

BTW, you should add CR (same as space) and .null (zero width) glyphs unless you've set up preferences to add them automatically.
.notdef shouldn't be blank.

[Baron Von Cruzer]

Well, I went back to the Illustrator files where I drew the glyphs. I've reconstructed the FontLab files from scratch again. This time, pasting from Illustrator. I've renamed the fonts, and nuked my caches AGAIN!

Same result! Time to contact FontLab support.

[Baron Von Cruzer]

Fixed!!!

I want to thank Alex Petrov for answering my tech support request to FontLab.

So what happened?

Well, these fonts are going to be free. As such, they are all caps with no accented characters. My mistake was importing the kerning classes from one of my pay fonts, which have a more extensive character set. I have cleaned up my classes manually. Looks like the automatic command for doing this isn't that smart. That's OK, you can save classes to a file, like a kabillion other settings in FontLab.

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