I have a recent version of FontForge for Windows, however I am hardly
getting anywhere with FontForge and I don't know why. I am trying to make use of kern pairing, but no matter which way I do it when following the official guide that deal with precisely kern pairing, it doesn't work after I generate a font for use in Windows. I try to get the 'A' closer to the 'V', but there is no change in the end when trying to use the font I generated. Does anyone have an idea why my font doesn't show the horisontal kerning I set for pair of glyphs? It is as if kern pairing by classes doesn't work at all. Does FontForge even work with Windows 7? Are there any limitations or things that just doesn't work on Windows 7 for some reason? Dag ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
This problem - getting kerning to work reliably on Windows - drove me to pause one project and take a vacation fixing bugs... It's been a while... You don't say which applications you checking kerning with. It completely broke my mind trying to make MSWord do anything with kerning. You have to turn on kerning in MSWord! I mean, what credibility does Microsoft have, anyway?Word 2003 http://www.word.tips.net/T001130_Changing_Kerning.html Word 2010 http://wordribbon.tips.net/T012516_Changing_Kerning.html On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Dag Øivind Undseth <[hidden email]> wrote: I have a recent version of FontForge for Windows, however I am hardly ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
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On 24 August 2014 17:01, Dag Øivind Undseth <[hidden email]> wrote:
When you generate the font, you have to tick the 'OpenType' option in the Options dialog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
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Correction:
In the 'Open Office Writer' software, to set the kerning between two letters, one has to highlight the FIRST letter (and not both). Otherwise, the second letter has the kerning set for the following third letter as well. I've since learned now that Adobe Photoshop has an 'optical' and 'metrics' setting for characters in addition to the preset values on the menu. 'Optical' automatically set the kerning (and it has an effect), while 'metrics' has no discernable effect off the font I made. I found a reddit post that seem to agree on that typography shouldn't be done in Photoshop. No sign of pair kerning working in Open Office Writer though when already have been set in the font I made. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
I solved my issue. Kerning pairs of glyphs now show up as expected when
using my font. After editing the metadata for a subtable, I have managed to fix my issue of my font now showing the kerning I set when making the font prior to 'generation' of the font. Specifically, under 'lookup' and 'GPOS' default naming was set to: 'kern' Horizontal Kerning in Latin lookup 0 (which seem to be ok) and the subtable was by default set to: 'kern' Horizontal Kerning in Latin lookup 0-1 (which was eh flawed) Changing the metadata name for the subtable to the following helped: 'kern' Horizontal Kerning in Latin lookup 1 (this worked) Dag ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ fontforge-users mailing list [hidden email] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fontforge-users http://fontforge.10959.n7.nabble.com/User-f8781.html |
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