Repairing a misbehaving font ?

[MacEachaidh]

Does anyone have any intermediate steps for opening a font that may be damaged in FLS ?

It's an OTF font.  In WinXP, it will display in Font Viewer, and the OS will accept it being installed.  But when it's used in an application (InDesign CS2 or WordPerfect X3), the characters appear as blank, both on-screen and in printing, but the app responds as if characters are actually being inserted in the text.

I've run the fonts (regular and italic) through Font Doctor, which reports no problems with the files.  But when I try to open them in FLS5, Fontlab immediately crashes.

Any suggestions, please, on resuscitating these files ?

[Der FontMeister (FontLab)]

all I can think of is you go to the Tools>Options menu and Opening OTFs and make sure that the Read OTF tables box is checked

Jimmy G.

[MacEachaidh]

Yep, it is.  But Fontlab still crashes, every single time.

[Der FontMeister (FontLab)]

if you can open other OTFs then I'm tempted to think that one has a corrupt table...

Jimmy G.

[MacEachaidh]

Yeah, makes sense.  And I have no problem at all with other OTF files and Fontlab.

So:  is there a way -- maybe a start-up switch of some kind in Fontlab -- to open the font by stripping out the OTF tables from the font as it opens?  Some sort of "minimal" mode?  I know I'd have to recreate the tables, but at least I might be able to find out what's going on.

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

Will TransType Pro 3 open the font?

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