font problems in windows
I have just made my first font, woo hoo I have exported it as a otf. Works great on Macs but on Windows it looks terrible. I am using Fontlab Studio and I have tried so many things to get it working correctly, but nothing works.
As you can see it looks ’clumpy’
I am thinking this is a common problem but i have not seen anything about it... so maybe it is not common. Please help :)
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28.Mar.2008 5.35pm
Arial is your font?
28.Mar.2008 8.32pm
(David, I think Yixt is just showing Arial for comparison to the font on the first two lines.)
Looks like a hinting problem. Or, it could be that some of the outlines are going the wrong direction. They should all be going clockwise for TrueType, counter-clockwise for PostScript. (The outer-most paths, I mean.)
31.Mar.2008 2.58am
Arial is a ttf, with TrueType outlines and True Type instructions, your font is a otf with postscript outlines and postscript hints. The Windows rasterizer with its Clear Type technology renders them differently.
2.Apr.2008 4.56pm
ill try exporting it with your thoughts and see what happens.