Typophile

newbie question: FontCreator via VOLT to .otf

sherman zipf

i’ve made some .ttf fonts with the excellent FontCreator, on a PC, and i think i’ve got the measure of VOLT, but a friend trying to install the resulting files on his shiny new Mac is getting an ’opentype data missing’ warning, whether they’re .ttf, or saved-as .otf ... Something’s evidently gone wrong (whether or not the warning indicates a genuine serious problem)

i’m strongly fearing that i should have bought FontLab... evidently VOLT doesn’t restructure .ttf files (???). I tried Crossfont on them, but it produced a .dfont file..... that didn’t work either.

am i missing one link here or a whole chain of them? i peeked at the adobe font kit, but i’m no way clever enough to grapple with it.... i can’t stretch to another font-making product... can anyone advise? is there any lightweight hand coding that i could do to complete the files?

my website ( in disguise ) : www.jelly_ _ _ _hedge.com

some body should really answer this boy’s question, although its ever such an old one. he sounds so unhappy about it! i’m dying to know what he ought to do!

I had a cat called TTF, and he went missing one day. though maybe that’s a little off-topic ;-)

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