It seems like I can never compile a font without incident. I have a recently pretty much finished with a typeface. Everything works fine in Adobe, but when I try using it in word, or previewing it in character map, I get what you see below. (just square boxes where there should be characters) I am pretty sure it has to do with the unicode encoding. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help you may provide.
I am using Fontlab 5 and windows XP.
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You have to assign an unicode to your “non unicode” glyphs. Please use the Private Use Area (PUA) for this. (E000 - F8FF) If its done, you will find your “private” glyphs in word too.
Thanks for the tip. However, my problem has to do with every single glyph showing up like this. I did try remapping the encoding using the PUA with standard, but honestly, I dont know what I am doing or why. Any other ideas?
Thanks,
JDooley
The screenshot of your FontLab windows looks okay: correct codepoints are assigned. In what format are you exporting the font? TTF, PS OTF, Type 1 PS?
PS OTF
Try exporting as a TTF and see if this makes any difference to be behaviour in Charmap and Word.
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