Frequently Asked Questions.
No Frames
- Why a font
editor, aren't there enough fonts already?
- Why doesn't
fontforge use the native MS Windows or Mac windowing
system?
- Is it legal to modify
a font? Is it ethical?
- What is a 12
point font?
- How do I set the
line spacing on a font?
- How big will my
glyphs be?
- What's a good
license to use on an open source font?
- How do I
install the fonts once I've made them?
- Why
won't FontForge's fonts install on some MS windows
machines?
- How do I edit fonts
from my macintoy?
- How do create a
mac font family? (How do I get the mac to group my fonts so
that the italic and bold styles work)?
- Why doesn't ATM
work with my fonts?
- How do I edit fonts
on MS windows?
- Why don't
my fonts work on windows?
- I have a truetype font
with opentype tables, but windows displays the "TT" (truetype)
icon and not the "O" icon. Why?
- When I load an
otf or a type1 font most of my references have been replaced by
inline copies. How do I get my references back?
- Does FontForge
read in the old kerning information from fonts?
- How do I
convert from one outline font format to another?
- How do I
convert from one bitmap format to another?
- How do I
convert from an outline format to a bitmap format?
- How do I
convert from a bitmap format to an outline format?
- How do I convert
from AAT to OpenType?
- How do I convert
from OpenType to AAT?
- How do I make it
use hint substitution?
- How do I make it
use flex hints?
- My glyphs are all
perfectly hinted, why do some stems have different widths (or
appear fuzzy, or fade away completely)?
- Why does
fontforge say "Error loading dynamic library" when trying to
import an image file?
- Why does
fontforge say "EPS file is too complex to be
understood"?
- How do I set a
particular bit in the OS/2 table (or any other)?
- FontForge's grey
background distresses me. How do I change it?
- The fonts
FontForge uses in its GUI are too small (too big) how do I
change them?
- How do I mark a
font as monospaced?
- How do I tell
fontforge about a new encoding?
- How do I add a
glyph with a new name?
- Why does
fontforge give some glyphs the wrong name?
- Why isn't my Open
Type font much smaller than the .pfb file?
- What's the
difference between OpenType and PostScript (or TrueType)
fonts?
- What is the
difference between AAT (Apple Advanced Typography) and
OpenType?
- Why does a font,
which worked fine under 10.3 fail on Mac 10.4 (Tiger)?
- After I
generate a font and quit, why does FontForge ask if I want to
save the font? I didn't change anything.
- Why doesn't TeX work
with my fonts?
- Why doesn't
FontForge let me edit an '.mf' file?
- Why does my
window get iconified when I want to minify the view?
- Why isn't there a
character named "mu" in my greek font? (or "Delta", or
"Omega", or "pi1")
- Why doesn't
Edit->Copy copy glyph names as well as glyph info?
- Why does
Edit->Paste complain about name duplication?
- What on earth are
the cidmap files, and should I care about them?
- (What is a
CID-keyed font?)
- Does the simplify
command lose accuracy?
- How does
FontForge convert a cubic spline into a quadratic spline for
truetype?
- How do I set
the default glyph of a font?
- I loaded a ttf
font, made a few changes and generated a new font. The changed
glyphs don't look anywhere near as nice as the originals.
Why?
- I generated an
opentype (or truetype) font and windows wouldn't install it.
Why not?
- I looked at
kaiu.ttf or mingliu.ttf and the outlines looked nothing like
the correct glyphs. What's wrong?
- When I use
Element->Build->Build Accented Glyph to build one of the
Extended Greek glyphs (U+1F00-U+1FFF) FontForge picks the wrong
accents. Why?
- When I use
Element->Build->Build Accented Glyph to build accents
over "u" or "y" I get the accent over one of the stems not
centered on the glyph. Why?
- Why does ttf2afm
crash on FontForge ttf files?
- Where can I
find a list of known bugs in FontForge?
- My system keeps
crashing because FontForge keeps running out of memory. What
can I do about it?
- Why is FontForge
so unstable?
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