This is my first every post on Typophile! I've been building a typeface in fontforge and I've hit a problem that will most likely sound stupid to all of the experts out there, but here goes.

So I generated by font and gave it a test run. It all seems fine apart from the quotation marks (QM). How do I command them as a set? As it is, the QM on left of a word will be the default font (like Helvetica) but the right will be my typeface. I've looked it up online but I really can't get my head around it. I gather that there is some command in the Lookups section that will allow the QM to appear correct, but how do I do that? I'm so confused! I can't get my head around how one key on the keyboard can generate two different graphemes. I always just thought of them as being the same.

In FontForge, I'm trying to import uni*.png images using the Image Template format.

If I try one file with Image format it works, but with multiple files on Image Template format is doesn't.

I keep getting "Bad image file, not a bitmap:" for every file named uni*.png.

Then "Nothing Loaded".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've decided to battle through the fontforge installation process again, and I am hit my this error in the terminal:

Error: can't convert nil into String
Please report this bug:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/reporting-bugs
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/string.rb:18:in `gsub!'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/extend/string.rb:18:in `gsub!'
/usr/local/Library/Formula/fontforge.rb:47:in `install'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:235:in `inreplace'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:229:in `each'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:229:in `inreplace'
/usr/local/Library/Formula/fontforge.rb:46:in `install'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:93:in `install'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:192:in `brew'

Somehow, for the life of me, I can't get Fontforge to generate a WOFF. In the Generate Fonts dialog, the Web Open Font Format is always greyed out (see attached screenshot). I am trying to convert a regular, otherwise working Opentype/CFF (.otf) file. Are there any prerequisites for generating a WOFF I am forgetting?

I have been attempting to test out Fontforge's MM feature. I have tried various things.

Here I have created a 3-axis Adobe-style MM font, with 8 masters, using only an uppercase E. I can't get Fontforge to make an interpolation (instance) with these no matter how hard I try.
This is the font file: http://21326.info/work/LomoMM.sfd

I have Googled various things relating to this, and looked through all the documentation, and still got nothing. What am I doing wrong?

Am I the only one to, after saving a font as UFO in FontForge (22-Feb-2011) and then compiling the UFO to TTF, get only half a font out of it? The top half, that is.

I'm trying to convert a collection of Windows Postscript files to OTF on OSX. For that, I decided to go with Fontforge because I can batch-process them with scripts in the terminal. I know little bash-scripting and no Python, but have been able to modify a script on the Fontforge site to do this: http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting-tutorial.html

I've posted the first public version of the Tsukurimashou parametric font family on my Web site at http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/160.

The main goal of this project is to support my own study of the Japanese language, so the finished product is less important than the process of getting there. However, you might still enjoy looking at it. To my knowledge, there's never been a native MetaFont family with glyph coverage for Japanese; there exist a couple that are conversions from other formats, and there was also the Quixote Oriental Fonts Project, announced more than two decades ago, apparently never usable, and now long abandoned.

Dear all,

I need your help. I have created a font, then later changed the Em (from 2500 to 1000). Changing the size of the glyphs was not a problem. I now need to update the kerning table (by classes) because the kerns are too big (of course). I have tried with fontforge but I cannot seem to be able to upload the kerning table (I have saved an FEA file from the GPOS menu in Fontinfo).

I am not sure I am being very clear, so please feel free to ask any question!
Thanks in advance.

Hi!

I'm trying to gauge the importance of various collaboration scenarios... I hope you can spare a moment to consider the following scenario, and let me know your thoughts :-)

You publish a typeface family, "Alice," with 12 weights of roman and italic, covering full Latin, Cyrillic and Greek, under a 'libre' license. You publish all source files - FontLab VFBs including interpolation master outlines, OpenType feature files, and hinting files.

VTF is a free & open source foundry producing open source & free typefaces.

More than 30 typefaces are already available!

http://www.vtf.fadebiaye.com

Typeface above: coqnegre perspective, a futurist fraktur typeface

Typeface above: babbage, a fancy futurist typeface

Typeface above: pompidou, a serif futurist typeface

Enjoy!

VTF is a free & open source foundry producing open source & free typefaces.

More than 30 typefaces are already available!

http://www.vtf.fadebiaye.com

Typeface above: coqnegre perspective, a futurist fraktur typeface

Typeface above: babbage, a fancy futurist typeface

Typeface above: pompidou, a serif futurist typeface

Enjoy!

Hi all,
I just downloaded FontForge again (FontForge_macunivX.5-20090923.pkg.zip on the FontForge website). I'm running Mac OS 10.6.4 on a MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo.

FontForge seems to be VERY unstable... not the way I remember it. Whenever I press the Delete key, it quits. And the same thing happens with the Shift key and any Arrow key. I haven't tried any more keys but I assume that others will cause it to quit as well.

Has anyone else had this problem or know of how to fix it?

Many thanks
Cale

Hello everybody!

I need your help...

I've already downloaded the FontForge from Fontforge's site, but I sisn't understand how to install correct the Fontforge, I've already tried out, but it didn't twist in the Windows Seven or XP. It's veru difficult of being installed. Please help and train me how to install correctly it. Please put the numbers (enumeration). If you can put the images, if so, please...

Thank you!

Kevin.

I just downloaded and installed the latest versions of Cygwin and FontForge. I also set the PATH environment variable. Then I tried to run FontForge, but it said it couldn't find a file called cygX11-6.dll. Indeed, Cygwin didn't install any such file.

I guess I need an older version of Cygwin.

Do you know how to make it work? Thanks.

(It's Windows Vista, by the way, but I'd be surprised if this had anything to do with that.)