Hello!
I noticed that Corel Draw doesn't show a proper glyph preview of PostScript fonts. It only shows empty glyphs (see screenshot). Other than that this font seems to work fine. When I double click on an empty looking glyph, it will also insert the correct glyph. I just don't see what I'm clicking on.I tried to install the font with Corel Font Manager, but even there I see the same thing in the glyph preview.Is there a way of fixing this? I'd really need to see those glyphs.
Thanks in advance!
I don't think the issue involves Postscript Type 1 fonts. I've seen the same preview glitch with various OpenType fonts too. The bug is annoying, particularly when some kind of symbol font is involved. Sometimes I end up having to open Adobe Illustrator and use its Glyphs palette to access the characters I want. But the font has to be installed into the OS to show up in Illustrator, unlike fonts in a collection folder to be accessed (or ignored) by Font Manager.
Btw - my font isn't a Type1 font. It's a PostScript based OTF font.
That's alright, thanks anyway.Your information is helpful for me anyway, confirming me it's best to redo my font as TrueType, which I've arleady started.
I can't stress enough the concept of avoiding OTF with postscript outlines or old postscript fonts. There just seem to be issues that keep popping up. I'd suggest that you also let someone else troubles shoot the new variable font format. I just saw one for $550 US that would fail for anything but print.
I'm diligently working on it! :-))550 bucks? Wow, that's quite some money! I don't know much about what a font costs. Mine is just a humble little school font with the letters just the way we teach them to the kids in Austria and meant for teachers. So it's only for print anyway. Which doesn't mean I don't want it as perfect as can be.
The graphics industry in the US is not in a position to pay $550 for a single font. The variable font is like having more than an entire font family but in my 45 years in graphics I've never seen the industry so low and with over 14,000 fonts in my possession they'll never sell me a variable font.
I guess I should never say never, if I find a client dumb enough to spend that kind of money then yes.
Just understand that fonts are just software and some are written by good programmers and some are written by the programmer that takes regular wacky weed smoke breaks.
Lol, well I'm certainly not taking regular wacky weed smoke breaks, but I'm not a professionist either. But I've learned a lot over the past years and I'm constantly learning. Everyone has to start somewhere, right?. And I'm a perfectionist, so I don't accept things that just "kind of work".
Don't say you're a perfectionist, if you're in the US they'll send you for counseling, we're all supposed to be underachieving slackers here now.
I get your point though, I've made a career out of figuring out the winding path between what's supposed to work and the reality of what does work. To be honest it added value to my billings!
I'm 5000 miles away from the US, lol.
You must have found the right path then!