Typophile

TTF fonts too small in MS Word menu.

Ramiro Espinoza

Hi there,

I am having an issue with TTF fonts in PCs being displayed too small in MS Word and Bistream’s font manager . (see attach)

In the beginning I thought I’ve made a mistake in the TrueType Metrics, but after reading in the FL Forum “Tips and Tricks: Setting Font Family Metrics in FontLab” carefully I realized this was not the case.

The fonts has 1000 units UPM and only if I set it with 2048 they are displayed correctly.

I thought 2048 units were not mandatory for TTF fonts but apparently this is the case here.

Or am I doing something else wrong?

Have anyone had the same problem with TTF set with 1000 units? And which was the solution?

Thanks in advance.

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