Font issues - C8 & dfont's

[Steve Mills]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 18:00:30, Andy Wacht wrote:

> Yes, Steve I enlarged the missing commas file and I concur. The  
> characters
> appear to only be half-drawn, yet are practically invisible at  
> normal size.
> I will submit a bug for this issue.

Thanks!

> As for the bullets, etc. it is happening with these system fonts:
>
> Bigcaslon.dfont
> Optima.dfont
> HelveticaNeue.dfont
> Cochin.dfont
> Copperplate.dfont
> Didot.dfont
> Futura.dfont
> GillSans.dfont
> Papyrus.dfont
> Zapfino.dfont
>
> It is as if Creator isn't reading the character map properly, or  
> has trouble
> past the 128 character mark, or er, something... But feel free to  
> slap me if
> my amateurish engineering conjecture is off-base. I would like to  
> avoid
> creating postscript versions to sidestep the issue if possible. I  
> generally
> prefer to leave system fonts alone.

Pretty close. Fonts have an "encoding" that says how each character  
maps to the correct glyph. Those fonts use a different encoding, and  
C8 is not handling them correctly. It's already been fixed for 8.0.1.

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