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FontFiend

The complete manual for them most advanced Font Editor for RISC OS.

The font I have made produces a "Font cache full" error
This font has one or more faulty bounding boxes. Make sure that the Re-calculate bounding boxes option is on in the FontFiend preferences window. Now load the font then save it out again. This will repair any faulty bounding boxes.

The font is fine on screen but doesn't print correctly
The normal reason for this is use of a Computer Concepts Laser Direct or Turbodriver printer driver. Both of these printer drivers have problems rendering many fonts correctly. Turn the halftone text option in the Laser Direct/TurboDriver Halftone options window off. The only draw back with this is that all text will then be printed black, regardless of its actual colour on screen. This is not a fault with FontFiend. All professional font suppliers in the Acorn market have encountered this problem.

When I load a font into FontED I get errors like "Cyclic scaffold tree" and "Invalid linear link"
The font in question has a badly corrupted scaffold tree. What you need to do is load the font into FontFiend and then delete all scaffolds. When you save the font back out from FontFiend the scaffolds will be removed but FontED will then be able to load the font without errors. You may also decide to re-scaffold the font in FontFiend before saving it back out.

When I use the font some characters get filled in
The font has been saved with the wrong winding rule. Load the font into FontFiend and then go to the Misc.Font option in the main menu. Alter the status of the Non zero winding rule button. Now save the font back out again. This will usually fix the problem.

I have made a font using FontFiend, can I distribute it?
Yes, FontFiend is a commercial font editor. The program itself is copyright, however any font you make yourself from scratch using the package belongs to you. FontFiend will place a small message inside any font edited. This message identifies the version of FontFiend used to edit the font in case any user has a problem with the font. FontFiend will also place a date inside the font so that anyone can easily identify when the font was made.

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