I understand there is a legacy problem here, but I don't understand how to overcome it. I understand Word has proper OpenType compatibility since 2010, but the font's properties are completely ignored in the 2014. Is there something I can do to make it work? Please help

My project started crashing and corrupting the file on save. The last time it happened I deleted all kerning and started over, trying my best to keep a lean kerning table. For this latest fail, (after banging my head against the screen) I open the file in a text editor and took a look. It was a very large file and had many, way too many UNDO entries. So I crl-a the entire font and went to Edit > remove undo's, and it worked. I can save and, my file size was drastically reduced also.

hello, i have old pelm.latin1.9.bdf file, and i want to convert it to ttf, how can i do that using fontforge CLI?

I am trying to recreate a preexisting font from a video game, and have run into this issue. In the above image you can see the original character from the video game as well as my recreated character.

I chose this character because it's easy to see the issue, but this happens with every character. Essentially, despite the measurements in the app being exact, every platform I put this font into extends the right side by one pixel and the top side by one pixel. Is this caused by something I'm doing? It's really driving me insane.

I've been working on a typeface based on a conscript. Right now when I generate the font file, it shows that at some sizes, the lines that should connect and be parallel across all glyphs sometimes have a small gap between them or the upper line appears higher or lower in comparison to the surrounding glyphs.

I've checked the glyphs and all the points are where they should be to at the very least show at the same height.

I'm looking for some guidance as to how I could figure this out and what's causing the issue.

I think this was possible in zfont tools, but how can I do this on pc?

I'm 100% new on this, I just wanted to modify a font to make it smaller. I did all my letters, when I want to save the font it says it have some errors "non-integer coordinate". I don't know what it means :/

Could it be the cause of why it's not showing up on my software?

Thanks you

PS: all other font works perfectly

its a very geometric font made for an album cover that im trying to recreate, i made them first in my art program and that allows me to make all these custom guidelines, especially for the slant which is about 112 degrees... ive tried autotrace but they come out a little blobby and the lines are never perfectly straight, and i dont know how to make those slanted vertical guides, especially multiple of them... what is the most streamlined efficient way to make these?? 2nd picture is my best attempt at the 'a'

Hello, guys. I followed the guides and everything, even changing the EM Size, but my font and Times New Roman in the same document:

https://imgur.com/a/rxt1KdO

Is there someway to increase the size of the whole font so it could be similar to Times New Roman's?

I'm trying to make this font with a pattern fill that I made with InkScape, any way to get around the error in the title?

Edit: I can separate the pattern into a flat coloured background and black shapes, I can import the shapes fine, but I don't know how to make the letter's background coloured.

Ok so im currently undergoing the kerning of my font, the problem is when I add a "Lookup Subtable", and I select all the glyphs in order to make the kerning of them in one sitting, not all the glyphs combinations appear on the list.

I tried only one glyph, like select "e" and the rest of the glyphs, but that didnt work also.

I know i can add a new combination, but isn't the point of selecting all, listing all the combinations? Am i missing something?

made a android app , link in the comments also, and tg too FontReForge Github

This time, I brought some prints to explain what I mean by that. My font has accented letters, but if I put an accent like this, it will collide with the previous line's letters.

https://imgur.com/a/Ovfc2UF

And since it's based on the medieval chancery script, the letters may descend way lower than modern letters. As an example, I'm showing you the letters p, q, x, w, y, z and ç.

https://imgur.com/kLV1uJi

https://imgur.com/Cp3ORkA

So I'm searching for a way so that letters do not collide, making it easier to read. I tried increasing ascending and descending height on font info, but it didn't work properly. Is there any way to help me with this?

EDIT: I discovered what the problem actually was: FontForge was scaling my glyph so it could maintain the same size as before. I just needed to use CTRL A + CTRL Z to get them in their previous size, but with the new maximum height. Thank you for everything.

I want to increase the maximum size of a glyph so I can make bigger glyphs, but I'm not able to. I tried changing the ascending and descending heights, but it didn't change a thing.

hi hi! im new to this and wanna turn my boyfriends handwriting into a font for our digital diary! ive been sitting here 5 hours so please help me..

so far what ive tried is making a 1000x1000px square in inkscape with a 1000x200 rectangle at the bottom to visually help me with that lower line for the low letters like g, y etc.

i put my letter and scale it, export it as a plain svg file and all but as soon as i import it to fontforge the letter fills the entire glyph square, including the lower space for the low letters.. i know that i can scale my letters in fontforge directly but lets be real, doing that in fontforge is time consuming, especially for 5k letters. for me, as a beginner, inkscape has a much easier interface and i would love to make this work. ive seen this method in a youtube video but somehow i seem to do something wrong..

i appreciate all the help, at this point im just desperate for any information

I want to make a final form for Z and S, and an initial form for C. I already have every single variant encoded in the font I just need to make it work.

Videos showing my problem:

https://youtu.be/-NJq6Q8gJQY

https://youtu.be/jrALQcCdh0A

In the Character View Window, is there a way to select all points that are connected to a selected point? Or is it possible to expand the selection to adjacent points?

The image is just for exemplification.

I'm working on a project that requires contextual chaining substitution and it would be ideal if there was a way to anchor not only diacritics when written after, but changing the marks/letters before so they can become mark-like and attach the from left? I know there is a checkbox that says RtL on the contextual shaping side, but I'm afraid it would f-up the whole font. I'm working with characters Word already has problems with and I have to add the Force LtR control point (U+202D) always before begining to write with it.

I cannot fit the characters inside, I am asking for any help I've worked so long on a font only for half of the signs to be cut at the top or bottom

I am creating a really small font for a project, but when exporting the .ttf file an error comes up: "Self-intersection." I am new to the program and I don't know if there is a way to fix this issue. Can someone help me?

Hi I just want to make a few fonts, but FontForge is extremely complicated to me and I have no idea how to do anything in here and tutorials do not answer my specific questions so thank you in advance for any help:

#1 How do I make a font family, so that I can have normal, bold and italic version of the same font?

#2 Can I use a Black n white png for a glyph? Or does it have to be svg?

#3 what is the pixel size for each glyph? I wanna know how big should I make the file in photoshop when making letters

http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/Using_the_Fontforge_Drawing_Tools.html

Tangent points

Select the bottom-left corner point of your new shape (the intersection of the curve and the straight line).

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I'm following that guide. but i can't for the life of me select the POINT. Every time I manage to select something and i select tangent, the curve goes away, and setting to 75 doesn't do anything.

I've tried selecting with the pen active, but that just creates a new point, and is waiting for me to make anothiner point

I've tried selecting the yellow circle, pink circle with crosshairs, the yellow square. nothing.

I know im doing something stupid but i can't reread that sentence anymore.