Mac bitmap ttf issues

Magneto4 Apr 2006

I designed a bitmap font and exported it to TTF using Font Creator. Final tests (Photoshop/Flash) were run, everything seemed ok, until I performed some tests on a Mac. Well.. there are unexpected tracking issues in Flash, ie. some characters overlapping. Should I prepare my fonts differently for the OSX? Is there somewhere I could read some more about PC/Mac differences in this area?

Magneto5 Apr 2006#

Here's what the font looks like in PC and Mac dynamic text fields in Flash:

Would exporting the font from Fontographer help?

Miguel Sousa5 Apr 2006#

Have you tried using the info on this page?
http://www.high-logic.com/support.html

People around here are generally Fontlab and Fontographer users.

BTW, looks like the problem only happens with characters outside the ASCII area.

hrant5 Apr 2006#

Try decomposing the composite characters.

hhp

Magneto7 Apr 2006#

Hrant, thanks, but I am not sure what this means exactly.. Also I am not sure if it's only composites that are troublesome here, as Ł,ł have strange tracking as well.
I wonder if re-exporting the ttf's from Fontographer would help.

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