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FontLab Studio / Re: Can't save my font as Open Type PS (.otf)

« Last post by Sandy JMA on Today at 15:51:51 »

If you want to send me your 3 .vfb files, I'll fix 'em and send them back to you as working .ttf and include the .vfb files so you can see what I did. It's hard to trouble-shoot fonts without seeing the actual files to see where the problem is.

sandy.cerovich@gmail.com

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FontLab Studio / Re: Font Family question.

« Last post by Sandy JMA on Today at 15:47:44 »

There are two screens you use to name fonts. On the "Basic set of font names" screen, you would name them (I'll leave out the labels, just work from the top down"

Yourfont Light
Light
Medium (assuming it's a medium width)
Regular
Yourfont-Light
Yourfont Light
Yourfont Light
Yourfont Light (You can actually leave this as Yourfont for all members, FL will rename it accordingly when it generates the font)

Yourfont Light
Light
Medium
Italic
Yourfont-LightItalic
Yourfont Light Italic
Yourfont Light
Yourfont Light Italic
(select the "Font is italic" box)

Yourfont
Regular
Medium
Regular
Yourfont-Regular
Yourfont Regular
Yourfont
Yourfont

Yourfont
Regular
Medium
Italic
Yourfont-Italic
Yourfont Italic
Yourfont
Yourfont
(select the "Font is italic" box)

Yourfont
Bold
Medium
Bold
Yourfont-Bold
Yourfont Bold
Yourfont
Yourfont
(select the "Font is bold" box)

Yourfont
Bold
Medium
Bold Italic
Yourfont-BoldItalic
Yourfont Bold Italic
Yourfont
Yourfont
(select the "Font is italic" and the "Font is bold" boxes)
_____

On the OpenType-specific font names screen enter
Yourfont
Light
Yourfont Light

Yourfont
Light Italic
Yourfont Light Italic

Yourfont
Regular
Yourfont Regular

Yourfont
Italic
Yourfont Italic

Yourfont
Bold
Yourfont Bold

Yourfont
Bold Italic
Yourfont Bold Italic
___________

If you follow that naming convention, in non-otf aware apps you end up with 2 families, Yourfont Light (consisting of Regular and Italic) and Yourfont (consisting of the 4 styles) - and in otf aware apps you end up with a single family consisting of 6 styles (Light, Light Italic, Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic)

Hope that helps...

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FontLab Studio / Font Family question.

« Last post by Paulo R on 2013-05-22, 16:53:06 »

Hi guys, I want to know if you can help me with this: I'm designing a font family in FontLab Studio and it has three weights: Light, Regular and Bold, I made the italics of them, I have 6 fonts, but I want to generate them in a way they all stay together in the font panel of programs like Photoshop, InDesign. Let me explain: the font Adobe Caslon Pro has three weight and the italics of it, and the name of the whole font is Adobe Caslon Pro, and they are all together in the styles tab, not separate as I scroll down, see this image image:



Yeah. I want to make my font like that, I know it is in FontLab, just don't know how, please help me, I'll be Always grateful!!!

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FontLab Studio / Re: Can't save my font as Open Type PS (.otf)

« Last post by HeatherMartinez on 2013-05-22, 15:57:44 »

Thank you for your reply. However, there aren't any features listed.
I'm trying to save as an OTF so that it is compatible with PCs. The Win True Types are working on all of my Mac programs but when I have a friend with a PC test, only two of the three typefaces are showing up.

Thank you for any advice you can give.
Heather

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Python scripting / can't use FL objects

« Last post by tgrace on 2013-05-22, 07:59:28 »

ok, silly question:
after installing FL for Mac (5.1.4 b4868) on another machine (running 10.8.2) and Robofab, I am now unable to use my old scripts which call FL objects; I get the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 11, in <module>
NameError: name 'fl' is not defined

Can anybody help me as to why fl isn't recognized? I tried the trick on hiding Python 2.3 from FontLab (as described on http://www.fontlab.com/python-scripting/), but that doesn't seem to help.

Thanks,

Tom

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FontLab Studio Problems / Re: invalid "invalid" message

« Last post by Luc[as] on 2013-05-22, 07:50:31 »

(TrueType was developed by Apple in the late 1980s (25 years ago). ".null" went on stage in MacOS6.)
These old TrueType specifications are relevant, because OpenType is based on them, as the current OT recommendations show. In old PostScript fonts ".null" might have been illicit, but that is irrelevant today. I'd love to get rid of the glyph, and it is probably not even needed today, but declaring it unlawful would make quite some fonts illegal. A related problem I once had to solve: a complex TTF with a ".null" glyph carrying the Unicode 0000 (according to the specifications) would make the font unusable in a certain version of Corel Draw... Font life is full of workarounds :-)

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FontLab Studio / Re: Can't save my font as Open Type PS (.otf)

« Last post by Sandy JMA on 2013-05-22, 06:19:02 »

Your OpenType panel is divided into 3 areas. The left side shows a list of your features. The upper right side shows features' definitions. The first line in the bottom right area should read:

languagesystem latn dflt;

assuming you are creating latin fonts.

That applies to 5.1 and newer. 5.04 didn't require the language statement.

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FontLab Studio Problems / Re: invalid "invalid" message

« Last post by Sandy JMA on 2013-05-22, 06:10:49 »

More recent than 25 years, but written in 2002. It's still so dated it's irrelevant.

NULL is certain more widely used, but .null is used often enough that I certainly wouldn't call it a rarity.

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FontLab Studio Problems / Re: invalid "invalid" message

« Last post by agisaak on 2013-05-22, 06:07:02 »

I've just opened a handful of truetype fonts. All contain a glyph called "NULL"; none include ".null". I make no claim, however, regarding the representativeness of my sample.

André

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FontLab Studio Problems / Re: invalid "invalid" message

« Last post by agisaak on 2013-05-22, 06:04:09 »

Hmm. Microsoft and Adobe appear to contradict one another on this issue. The following link is dated, but certainly more recent than 25 years.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet-archive/opentype/archives/glyphnamelimits.html

André