Re: TECH: Adventures in idiocy using FontCreator

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Horswood
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:09
> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
> Subject: TECH: Adventures in idiocy using FontCreator
>
> Yesterday I started playing with the evaluation copy
> of FontCreator I downloaded, trying to make a decent
> Franj font from pieces of Greek and Cyrillic character
> sets...
>
> ...and promptly managed to install said finished
> product over the top of the Arial regular font, so
> that when I went online, everything that wasn't in
> bold or italics was in Franj script.
>
> It took more than 3 hours to reassemble the alphabet
> once I realised what had happened.
>
> I'm still not sure why it did what it did.  Anyone
> care to help save me from my own idiocy?
>
> Geoff
>
> =====
Just a guess (I've been playing with an eval copy myself lately), but
make sure you look at the font's properties and make sure you are
giving it a unique name.  If you started with something like "Arial"
then it's likely you saved and installed it with that name.

While we are at it, does anyone know of any features in it that will
allow me to automatically scale the font to different sizes?  I
created a custom script for my personal language which looks greate in
12pt or higher, but looks liks shite at smaller sizes though 8pt isn't
too bad.  It's mostly the line weight that gets messed up on those
small ones.