Richard Detwiler wrote:
Just tried it under Windows 2000 and I get what you see - empty
boxes. I'm now trying various things using fontforge, but I don't
know enough about font file internals to do much.
... (later)
By fumbling around I've managed to get a font file that works with
OOo under Windows, although I suspect all it needed was a forced
regeneration of some part of the font file because I then undid the
change and it still works.
I've put the new file up on my ISP-provided web space for anyone who
wants it. And please let me know if I'm halucinating, i.e. it doesn't
work for you.
http://rossjohnson.homemail.com.au/OpenOffice.org
Ross
Ross: Thanks very much, your modified font DOES work for me. I'm not
at all sure what you did, but it was successful.
I'm not sure either :^)
I do have a question; I can now use this font through the menu path
Insert > Special Character, so it's working and that's the important
thing. But why does it only work by that path, as opposed to just
typing in a letter which is supposed to give, in this font, an
orienteering symbol? For example, I tried the Symbol font, and it
gives its special symbols from just typing, OR from using Insert >
Special Character.
Not being an expert I don't know, but please grab the version that I've
just uploaded to the URL I gave earlier. I noticed that the symbols
weren't appearing in the how-to-use RTF document from the original web
site and, on further bumbling around realised that the glyphs appeared
to be in the wrong place altogether in the original file (although there
may be still some other simple reason for that but, again, I don't
know). I then moved the glyphs and voila, the document shows the symbols
correctly. Typing the character also works for characters upto 0x7e, but
the rest are still not accessible using the ALT key method.
It may be worth checking that the symbols print before going too far
with the modified font file.
Ross
Anyway, this last question is of secondary importance, I'm up and
running which is the important thing. Thanks again for your help.
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