Check for overlapping nodes.

By over lapping do you mean the node itself? Or the shapes?

I also just printed the same document on a different colour printer with no hairlines, I dunno about that either. Thanks Mark, I will have a look at the glyphs.

Mark, do over lapping nodes show up as yellow in FontLab? If so that probably is the problem.

Spikes!
The AFDKO contains a Script to avoid this: "Fix Start Points for Spikes". The doc says: Spikes may occur in some cases where the first and last path operators in a contour are curves.

give it a try

Eigi

I have installed the AFD application, but I have not found the ’Fix Start Points for Spikes‘ script yet. I did run the action for removing overlaps and that did clean things up a ton. Just a few lines remain. I will find script and see. Thanks guys.

I meant adjacent nodes that have the same x/y location. But, on second though, I'm not sure that would cause that.

Removing the over-lapping nodes has made a huge difference Mark, still a few lines remain. I keep looking over the problem glyphs. Thank you very much.

Still trying to find where this “Fix Start Points for Spikes” is located in FontLab. Anybody know how to run this script?

Did you try "Optimize" path?

Don't Touch A Thing! It's perfect!

Please send me a copy now, before you change your mind.

Cheers!

It is proving to be a bit of a process which requires patience, but it is working to just remove the over laps.

select all glyphs with overlaps; go to outline menu and select "remove overlaps" when dialogue comes up, click "yes"

Have you got the Font Audit thing on?

Actually, Chris, that's brilliant. That'll work.

No luck with the Font Audit, not sure why. The FontLab plug ins do not load.

I am on a Mac, I don’t think I have an Outline menu. I find the remove overlaps under the actions.

command F10

Select glyphs with overlaps; Action set: Outlines--remove overlaps. "apply to selected glyphs"

I agree with dberlow! Even though they might be an unexpected/unwanted side effect, it works well! ;-)

It is looking like I am stuck with some of the distortion for now. Getting burned out on trying to work it out. I really appreciate all the comments and suggestions, thanks.

Still trying to get the FA thing to work with no luck. Code, bah. Personally I prefer an installer.

I got the Font Audit loaded, any idea how to access the macro through FontLab? Do you load them one at a time through Tools>External Tools?

I'm not sure you misunderstood what I meant by Font Audit... I meant this Font Audit thing:

It displays these little red arrows which you click on to find out and (optionally) correct the problem.

You’re right Mark, I didn’t know what you meant, this is a great tip. Thanks! What I have done is added the Adobe DFK Macro scripts. I am not really sure what they a for for sure, but eigi suggested it to remove spikes.

The font is printing fine after a bunch of time cleaning up the paths. Thanks everyone for taking the time to help me out. What I think I did wrong was draw to many details in Illustrator. In the future I will not work zoomed in so tight.