[Fontforge-users] Re: FontForge: Type1 font problem with W2K

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 09:45, Dr. Harald Albrecht wrote:
> If you look at GaramondPROBE after installing it in WINNT\Fonts you'll 
> notice that while the latin characters are okay, all accented characters 
> seem to lean on either the left or right side. In particular, the 
> copyright character is moved too far to the right.
Thank you for that hint. I do see the problem now in my test fonts now
(being an English speaker, Windows only shows me the unaccented
characters).

I believe that the .pfb file is fine, however the pfm format is badly
documented (now it is not even documented -- MS has removed all mention
of it), the problem should lie in that, and I think I know what it is...

As a temporary fix, I believe that if you encode your font
	Element->Font Info->Encoding
	Set Encoding to Windows Latin ("ANSI")
	[OK]
And then generate your font, you should get a pfm file that will work.
(The encoding in the pfb file should be largely irrelevant (it gets
reëncoded anyway) so this won't hurt anything).