Problems with fuzzy type after rendering font

[wrayco]

I purchased Type Tool so I could modify an existing font I have that I'm using in a book design. All I wanted to do is change one glyph, the lowercase "f" to make it more readable. Once I purchased Type Tool, I double clicked on the "f" and selected the points to move and moved them up a bit. Then I changed the Font Info and modified the name of the font weight to "regular-alt" and then generated the font with the default settings.

I was able to import it into my font management program, Font Agent Pro, with no problems. I activated it, then went back to InDesign and changed the body text font from regular to regular-alt. It changed, but I noticed that the font looked fuzzy. My "f" was improved, but the whole font looked degraded, as if it had been through a fax machine.

I then went to the FontLab site looking for clues. I re-generated the font after reading the FAQs and manual, adjusting some of the export/generation settings. All of the variations I tried resulted in the same outcome. I also tried printing the pages and the fuzzy look also showed up on the printout.

When I went to print InDesign gave me a message that it couldn't find my "alt" version of the font, but called my font "Times Roman Regular-Alt", which it wasn't. I'm at a loss as to how to resolve this. I purchased Type Tool for this purpose and am now not able to do this one thing, which I had mistakenly assumed would be a simple/quick change.

I am on Snow Leopard using CS5.

[Arno Enslin]

My "f" was improved, but the whole font looked degraded, as if it had been through a fax machine.

This could be a hinting problem. Check, what happens, if you deactivate the options "Generating OpenType & TrueType – ttf / otf – Autohint unhinted glyphs (two times present)" and "Opening OpenType & TrueType – Autohint". Activate the option "Store TrueType native hinting". And don’t change the flavor (PostScript to TrueType or the other way around).

The rest is probably a naming problem. Read http://forum.fontlab.com/fontlab-studio-tips-and-tricks/font-family-naming-in-fontlab-studio-5-t313.0.html.

[wrayco]

Hi...I followed your instructions and saved after modifying the hinting as you suggested, but no change. I then changed the naming so that it was a different family name and the regular font in that family (as opposed to an additional Regular weight in an existing family) but still no change.

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