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Re: TECH: Adventures in idiocy using FontCreator

From:ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
Date:Sunday, July 22, 2007, 16:45
Geoff Horswood wrote:
> >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? >
That happened to me too, a long time ago, around 2001 when I was creating my Kash website....I think maybe FCP summons up Arial by default, and then we start modifying it all unsuspecting. It was quite a jolt to see my Yahoo home page in a mixture of Roman and Kash script!! I never figured out how to get a blank template to work with-- what I did (and perhaps you did too?) was to select a font that I figured I'd never use-- e.g. PTBarnum-- and modify that. But that was several computer/virus deaths ago, and in the meantime a Kind Stranger re-created the font for me, as a proper ttf. You're probably more computer-savvy than I was/am, so the following warning may be irrelevant-- but when FCP's 30-day trial period ends, you will no longer be able to view or edit your font, or any other (e.g. fonts available for download mentioned in conlang websites) . (Though yours, installed, will remain usable.) As I say, that may have been due to my idiocy, or maybe a bug in their program that has been eliminated by now. Various people suggested a remedy-- turning the computer's clock back-- but that struck me as dangerously radical surgery. Maybe I should have uninstalled FCP after the trial period ended...? FWIW, I at one time had a bootleg "registered" copy of FCP that worked OK except for some of the functions-- it wouldn't do composite chars., rotating or mirror-imaging inter alia. No loss when that version got scrubbed..........