<HTML> <HEAD> <!-- Created with AOLpress/2.0 --> <!-- AP: Created on: 21-Nov-2001 --> <!-- AP: Last modified: 22-Jan-2007 --> <TITLE>Frequently Asked Questions.</TITLE> <LINK REL="icon" href="ffanvil16.png"> <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="FontForge.css"> </HEAD> <BODY id="sidebar"> <P> <A HREF="faq.html" Target="_top">No Frames</A> <UL> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#font-editor" Target=faq>Why a font editor, aren't there enough fonts already?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#native" TARGET="faq">Why doesn't fontforge use the native MS Windows or Mac windowing system?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#legal" Target=faq>Is it legal to modify a font? Is it ethical?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#pointsize">What is a 12 point font?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#linespace">How do I set the line spacing on a font?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#em-units" TARGET="faq">How big will my glyphs be?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#license" TARGET="faq">What's a good license to use on an open source font?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#font-install" Target=faq>How do I install the fonts once I've made them?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#Bad-Windows-Install" TARGET="faq">Why won't FontForge's fonts install on some MS windows machines?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#How-mac" Target=faq>How do I edit fonts from my macintoy?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#How-family" Target=faq>How do create a mac font family? (How do I get the mac to group my fonts so that the italic and bold styles work)?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#Mac-ATM" Target=faq>Why doesn't ATM work with my fonts?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#windows" TARGET="faq">How do I edit fonts on MS windows?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#Bad-Windows-Fonts" TARGET="faq">Why don't my fonts work on windows?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#DSIG" TARGET="faq">I have a truetype font with opentype tables, but windows displays the "TT" (truetype) icon and not the "O" icon. Why?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#Missing-Refs" TARGET="faq">When I load an otf or a type1 font most of my references have been replaced by inline copies. How do I get my references back?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#kern-info" TARGET="faq">Does FontForge read in the old kerning information from fonts?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#outline-conversion" TARGET="faq">How do I convert from one outline font format to another?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#bitmap-conversion" TARGET="faq">How do I convert from one bitmap format to another?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#outline-bitmap" TARGET="faq">How do I convert from an outline format to a bitmap format?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#bitmap-outline" TARGET="faq">How do I convert from a bitmap format to an outline format?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#AAT2OT" TARGET="faq">How do I convert from AAT to OpenType?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#OT2AAT" TARGET="faq">How do I convert from OpenType to AAT?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#hint-subs" Target=faq>How do I make it use hint substitution?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#flex-hints" Target=faq>How do I make it use flex hints?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#fuzzy" Target=faq>My glyphs are all perfectly hinted, why do some stems have different widths (or appear fuzzy, or fade away completely)?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#dynamic-libs" TARGET="faq">Why does fontforge say "Error loading dynamic library" when trying to import an image file?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#complex-eps" TARGET="faq">Why does fontforge say "EPS file is too complex to be understood"?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#mensis" TARGET="faq">How do I set a particular bit in the OS/2 table (or any other)?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#background" TARGET="faq">FontForge's grey background distresses me. How do I change it?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#fontsize" TARGET="faq">The fonts FontForge uses in its GUI are too small (too big) how do I change them?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#monospace" TARGET="faq">How do I mark a font as monospaced?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#new-encoding" Target=faq>How do I tell fontforge about a new encoding?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#new-name" Target=faq>How do I add a glyph with a new name?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#glyphnames" TARGET="faq">Why does fontforge give some glyphs the wrong name?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#Open-size" Target=faq>Why isn't my Open Type font much smaller than the .pfb file?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#Open-difference" Target=faq>What's the difference between OpenType and PostScript (or TrueType) fonts?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#AAT-Open" TARGET="faq">What is the difference between AAT (Apple Advanced Typography) and OpenType?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#Tiger-Open" TARGET="faq">Why does a font, which worked fine under 10.3 fail on Mac 10.4 (Tiger)?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#save-no-change" Target=faq>After I generate a font and quit, why does FontForge ask if I want to save the font? I didn't change anything.</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#TeX" Target=faq>Why doesn't TeX work with my fonts?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#mf-files" TARGET="faq">Why doesn't FontForge let me edit an '.mf' file?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#minify-iconify" Target=faq>Why does my window get iconified when I want to minify the view?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#no-mu" Target=faq>Why isn't there a character named "mu" in my greek font?</A> (or "Delta", or "Omega", or "pi1") <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#no-copy-names" Target=faq>Why doesn't Edit->Copy copy glyph names as well as glyph info?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#copy-names" Target=faq>Why does Edit->Paste complain about name duplication?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#cidmaps" Target=faq>What on earth are the cidmap files, and should I care about them?</A> <LI> <A HREF="cidmenu.html#CID" Target=faq>(What is a CID-keyed font?)</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#simplify" Target=faq>Does the simplify command lose accuracy?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#cubic-quadratic" Target=faq>How does FontForge convert a cubic spline into a quadratic spline for truetype?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#default-char" TARGET="faq">How do I set the default glyph of a font?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#ttf-degrade" TARGET="faq">I loaded a ttf font, made a few changes and generated a new font. The changed glyphs don't look anywhere near as nice as the originals. Why?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#otf-diffs" TARGET="faq">I generated an opentype (or truetype) font and windows wouldn't install it. Why not?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#mingliu" TARGET="faq">I looked at kaiu.ttf or mingliu.ttf and the outlines looked nothing like the correct glyphs. What's wrong?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#greek-accents" TARGET="faq">When I use Element->Build->Build Accented Glyph to build one of the Extended Greek glyphs (U+1F00-U+1FFF) FontForge picks the wrong accents. Why?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#u-accents" TARGET="faq">When I use Element->Build->Build Accented Glyph to build accents over "u" or "y" I get the accent over one of the stems not centered on the glyph. Why?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#ttf2afm" TARGET="faq">Why does ttf2afm crash on FontForge ttf files?</A> <LI> <A HREF="index.html#known-bugs" TARGET="faq">Where can I find a list of known bugs in FontForge?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#memory" TARGET="_top">My system keeps crashing because FontForge keeps running out of memory. What can I do about it?</A> <LI> <A HREF="faq.html#Unstable" TARGET="faq">Why is FontForge so unstable?</A> </UL> <P> <P ALIGN=Center> -- <A HREF="sfds/index.html">Prev</A> -- <A HREF="overview.html" TARGET="_top">TOC</A> -- <A HREF="GlossaryFS.html" TARGET="_top">Next</A> -- </BODY></HTML>