Okay,
I rebuilt my font with hinting disabled, but am still having
the same issue.
Now, I'm placing my fonts here:
C:\texlive\texmf-dist\fonts\truetype\public
Is that right? Or will texlive just pull from my main font
locations (c:\windows\fonts)?
On 3/11/2015 9:57 PM, Grzegorz Rolek wrote:
On Mar 12, 2015, at 2:05 AM, Brother Gabriel-Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree that it looks like an issue with the font hinting.
I have High-Logic FontCreator, so I can edit the font - how would I fix the
font?
I'm not familiar with FontCreator in particular, but what you could do is to
try to simply delete the hinting code altogether. This could result in the font
rendering with less precision on screen, but on paper it won't make any
difference. Many font editors also have an option to autohint the font file,
which generally clears all the existing hinting code and builds a new one
automatically. Depending on the sophistication of the autohinter, this could
give either better or worse rendering quality than the original. But your
current hinting is now broken anyway, so you don't risk anything.
It's possible that the font was autohinted in the first place, and that it was
done with a tool called ttfautohint, a child project of FreeType that, if I
recall correctly, was known in the past as having a similar bug that FreeType
once had, and could produce this kind of fragile hinting code. Never the less,
you could try to run the font through a recent ttfautohint and rebuild the
hinting, or you could remove it entirely with a proper option. It is a command
line utility, but there's also a dedicated graphical frontend; look at
ttfautohint's website for all the info and program files. Please search on the
Internet for the link as I'm writing this on a mobile phone and I can't quite
dig it for you.
Lastly, can you tell us what the font name and version is? Maybe it has been
corrupted in one way or another? Have you tried to contact the author or the
seller regarding this issue? Critical issues as such are generally looked into
straight away.
Best,
Grzegorz Rolek
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