Could be a hinting problem. Could be something else--including a bug in our apps. I've written the developer asking if he'd be willing to give us a copy of the font for testing purposes.

Cheers,

T

<i>Have you contacted MyFonts or the designer?</i>

Wonderful idea... I feel silly that I just did not think of that. I just now emailed myfonts, though they're probably out till Tuesday. If they don't have a solution, I'll email Aboutype.

Thanks Thomas. Although I don't have all that many programs on this computer, so I couldn't really do an exhaustive Adobe/non-Adobe test. I have MS Office but haven't installed it yet -- I'll try to install it tonight and see if the same problem happens in Word.

Wow, so MyFonts just offered to switch me to a Mac PS version. I think I just assumed, really for no reason, that they'd be meanies and say "That's what you get for buying the wrong format."

Thomas, I tried it in Word (v. X) and it's doing the same thing there. So if it's a bug, it probably isn't an Adobe-specific one. And I also just discovered that the distortion doesn't show up in PDFs exported from Indy. Go figure.

Thanks for the suggestion Stephen, sorry if I seemed a little panic-stricken everyone

The designer was kind enough to send me a copy of the font, and I couldn't find anything wrong with it (other than the exclamation mark being in the slot for the space character, but that's another issue). Path winding order looks good. There are a few unnecessary control points, but nothing terrifying.

My best guess is that FontLab's TT auto-hinting is messing things up a bit. I would hardly even blame it; an outline this complex is *really* poorly suited to TT auto-hinting. But who'd want to manually hint something like this, either? If I needed a TT version, I'd be tempted to leave it completely unhinted. But that's just me.

Regards,

T

So once the hints were stripped it worked fine?

Si

I haven't tried that, but I will do so just to see if I can prove the theory.

T

Wow, does that look cool or what.

If you ever fix the problem, do still keep the old buggy version as well - autogrunge for the 21st century, dude.

hhp

Huh. Well, I regenerated the font two different ways from FontLab 4.6.0 (Win). Once with hinting, and once with hinting suppressed. NEITHER version shows the problem. The developer says the TT was originally generated from FontLab in the first place, so color me confused.

Seeing as it's not a problem specific to our rendering, it's easily fixable, and how it got messed up is not obvious, I'm giving up on this one for now.

Cheers,

T