Re: From NB NY [Descenders]

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Uh-oh. In that case, you need to go to a PS editor (Fontlab,
Fontographer) or . . . . why not simply present a TT font to the
program to start with? That could be MS's Courier New or HP's Dark
Courier (just google it - - freeware from HP). HP's font will
probably be the most satisfactory but for any number of reasons may
not be. Are you on an LCD display? In that case, you will want to
take advantage of ClearType-optimized fonts - - there's a monospace
in the new Vista/Office packages but I forget the name - - however,
it starts with C and is by Lucas de Groot. I like Courier! I don't
know the current status of Courier New but I imagine it is pretty
well-optimized for XP/Vista. On other systems, none of this matters .
. . . . you would be best off with a font optimized for that vintage of OS.

At 7/7/2008 06:04 PM, you wrote:
> At 12:50 PM 7/7/2008, Bill Troop wrote:
> > Michael, .otf describes a wrapper that can cloak either a PS or TT
> > font. (CFF is also a descriptor for PostScript fonts.) If FC really
> > only natively edits TT, then you really should feed it TT - - i.e.
> > fonts from Microsoft. But I can hardly believe this to be the case.
>
> Checked their forum and found this:
> *When you open a PostScript based OpenType font (usually a font file
> with .otf extension) in FontCreator, it is automatically converted
> to a TrueType based font. This conversion does remove all hinting data.*
>
> Michael Norman