On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 22:31 -0500, micheal wrote: > > I don't have many useful suggestions, and it looks like FontForge may be > your best bet. I came across this page while googling though > > http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/editors.html > > Maybe one of those programs might point you in the right direction I installed fontforge - there's clearly more to ttf than I at first thought, I changed what I thought needed to be changed - the fonts did in fact show as one family in the font viewer, Mozilla was able to get the bold face - but AbiWord for whatever reason was not (even though it gets the bold face from other fonts no problem). I think I'm going to write the foundry and ask if they can do an update release that produces better more conforming fonts - I probably can figure out how to do it with FontForge but FontForge seems to crash an awful lot ... I did rebuild FreeType for the byte-compiler, as fontforge says it needs that for working with TrueType fonts - it did fix the poor rendering of Comic Sans MS (why I initially looked for a replacement script font and found this Wastrel font) - but it made some other fonts look a lot worse - like my Monaco font (a ttf conversion of the Apple font) - didn't look anything like it was suppose to. Screwed up the rendering of the bitstream-vera fonts as well. So I reverted to stock freetype. Hopefully the foundry will decide to produce proper fonts if I ask nicely. From what I hear, the guy who developed this font is a real nice guy, so ... maybe that's the best bet.
