Will fontographer correct ITC Charter font – using a Mac, Fontographer, IDCS2

[Macfool]

I have a client that requires a load of book that use ITC Charter as the body text. Inside ALL applications, the bold, italic, and bold Italic all appear under a different font to the actual Charter regular. This means when hitting Command + Shift + I, it does not make it italic, and neither does Command + Shift + B make it bold. Moreover, when importing text from supplied Word files into Quark, InDesign, etc., the bolds/italics are not being imported properly.

I have been in touch with Bitstream (whom we bought the font from, but no longer have the licence) and a tech guy there has informed me that that was the way that the font was designed, and for some reason the font was not "mapped" so that the bold and italic was part of the same font in the font lists.

So here's what I want to know: What the hell does he mean, and could Fontographer actually sort this issue out? If so, how?

[Evertype]

In the good old days things like FamilyBuilder helped you link fonts together. Nowadays you really have to use something like FontLab to get the headers right in order to get the linking you need. The way I do it when I'm in the situation you are is open the fonts in FontLab, perform the header magic, and re-export.

[Macfool]

In the good old days things like FamilyBuilder helped you link fonts together. Nowadays you really have to use something like FontLab to get the headers right in order to get the linking you need. The way I do it when I'm in the situation you are is open the fonts in FontLab, perform the header magic, and re-export.

Thanks so much for your quick reply. So Fontographer won't be able to do the job? I'd need Fontlab instead?

[Evertype]

Fog can't edit those name headers, so yes, you'd need FontLab for that.

[Macfool]

Fog can't edit those name headers, so yes, you'd need FontLab for that.

I just wanted to say thanks for your help. A mate of mine has a copy of Fontlab and is willing to muck about with the font for me

[Evertype]

You're very welcome.

[Shanafeg]

I've had fonts where the bold/italic/normal versions could not be invoked in a word processor through the normal boldface or italic commands, and the solution was simply to change the name of the font in the font information so that all the fonts belonged to the same font family with different variations.  it was easy with FOG to do this, bit a bit hard to explain since I'm a thousand miles from my regular computer at the moment so I can't pull up FOG and tell you the precise command sequence.  But you should look at the font names on a family of fonts that DOES work properly to see how they are set up: the family name is the same, and the only difference is in the type: Helvetica normal, Helvetica italic, Helvetica bold, Helvetica bold italic, etc.  Bear in mind that FOG will strip the hinting commands already in the font when you edit, substituting its own, which may or may not change its final appearance, so make sure you make back up copies of your fonts in case you end up with something you don't like.

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