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Foundry name is not visble in the generated font
Posted by Typogruffer in
17 Nov 2012 — 12:30am
17 Nov 2012 — 12:30am
Hey everyone,
When I generate a font from FLS5 and view its information in suitcase fusion, the foundry and class fields are empty. PFA image.
I have edited the vendors list in FLS5 by adding a custom foundry name to the vendor.dat file and I am using this foundry name as the default. But, upon generating font, the foundry information is not part of the metadata of the font. Any workarounds?
Thanks,
Typogruffer
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17 Nov 2012 — 12:55pm
Have you tried filling in all the fields mentioned in this thread:
http://typophile.com/node/98108#comment-530646
17 Nov 2012 — 7:14pm
Thank you, I will go through that thread.
17 Nov 2012 — 8:25pm
I did everything you said, even changed it to another foundry name but the foundry name is not getting exported
18 Nov 2012 — 12:13pm
Two different things here:
- whether the foundry and classification info shows up in Suitcase Fusion.
- what metadata is in the font.
SF uses internal databases to map from fonts to what it displays in its user interface. For foundry name, SF has a list of "known" foundries, and can't recognize any other foundries. For classification, SF has a database of known families, and has classifications for those.
For any family or font that SF is lacking pre-existing data, an end user may add classification or foundry name info, but this only works for their particular local copy of Suitcase Fusion.
Regards,
T
18 Nov 2012 — 3:48pm
@Thomas, Do you guys take the data from MS vendors list? Just wondering, do you check for it every time before updating Extensis software?
20 Nov 2012 — 11:06am
No, for many years, this has been a static list that has not been updated. I hope to see this change in the future.
20 Nov 2012 — 11:07am
If it does change, then we would be using the MS font vendor registry, btw.
21 Nov 2012 — 3:11am
Too much static.