OK, I'm dense - I can't find a saved font

[JohnSlaughter]

All I want to do is convert my BlackChancery TT to OT so that I can use it on the web with WEFT. I opened it in the VOLT editor and could see all of the glyphs. I saved it as BlackChanceryOpen.ttf and I can't find it. VOLT can find it in my fonts folder. Search can find it. But, when I look in the folder, which is set to show hidden files and folders, it isn't there. I even exported the glyph data to a .vtd file. I can't find it either.

There doesn't seem to be a help file with VOLT. If there is one, I'd love to get it. This is my first time working with font files.

Thank you.

[BobH]

\Windows\Fonts is a special folder. When Windows Explorer reads/searches that folder, Windows does a trick and rather than looking in the actual folder it enumerates the contents of a registry key, typically HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts, which lists the installed fonts.  Since your font isn't installed yet, it isn't listed.

If you were to start a Command Prompt (i.e., DOS box) and navigate to \Windows\Fonts and do a DIR command, you'll probably see your font file.

I suggest you save your font in some other folder in order to work on it in VOLT or whatever tools you need, and then do a normal font install when you are ready to use it.

For help with VOLT, look at the Resources listed on http://www.microsoft.com/typography/volt.mspx

Are you sure you really need VOLT? When you say you want to change BlackChancery TT to OT, what exactly do you mean? TrueType font files are, by definition, in "OpenType font format", so it may be they already are in the format you need -- what is it about "OT" that you need? If you simply want it to have the OT icon, then the font needs a digital signature, which is not a VOLT operation. On the other hand, if you want to add advanced typographic functions (glyph substitution and positioning), then you can use VOLT to add the GSUB and GPOS tables.

Bob

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