HELP! Problems with characters in FreightSans
I just downloaded a font – FreightSans – and noticed to my horror that the following Danish characters – æøå, ÆØÅ – aren’t where they’re supposed to be. I can see in the character setting, that they are there, but when I press the ÆØÅ characters on my keyboard I get something like Ê_ Â.
When I look in the detailed view in FontExplorer and press on one of the mentioned characters I can see that they not assigned to any keystroke, but only have glyph ID’s, so that’s a little weird.
However, the mentioned characters come out fine when I set a sample on the Joshua Darden website, so what’s going wrong? I have the truetype version on a mac. Other truetype fonts work fine, so I don’t thing it’s related to the format.
Does anyone know what I can do? I’ve also written to Joshua Dardens site, but I’m guessing you guys in here are faster.
29.Aug.2007 2.04am
What about giving him a chance to answer? :)
29.Aug.2007 2.07am
Yeah, it’s just that I have a deadline later today, and I’m guessing that the Americans won’t be up and at work untill after my deadline.
29.Aug.2007 1.02pm
I just managed to type the mentioned glyphs correctly in InDesign with Finnish keyboard (CS2/mac). Are all the other fonts behaving all right?
Did you buy the font from the man himself or from a dealer? I had a little problem with one of the glyphs after purchasing from an online font shop. Mr Darden replaced the files promptly, the dealer had had an old buggy version of the font.
29.Aug.2007 1.20pm
Hello all:
I’ve communicated with Mr. Monrad directly, and we have resolved this issue.
29.Aug.2007 11.46pm
Out of curiosity, what was the problem? I ask not to give anybody a hard time, but because it could be educational, whether it’s a font glitch or user error.
(If I were to hazard a guess, he’s on a Mac, the font is OpenType CFF, and it’s another case of the bizarre Apple-encoding-glyphs-by-name-instead-of-cmap-table issue. It’s bitten us at Adobe, too.)
Regards,
T
30.Aug.2007 1.47am
As Joshua said I received a new version, and it works like a charm. Thanks. My magazine is looking so much better today!
For the record all other fonts were “behaving all right” and the format was TrueType. The new version I received is also TrueType.