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My custom fonts appear with an asterisk (*) in Ilustrator 8 Character Palette

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Andrew C. Cassidy

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Sep 17, 2003, 9:26:27 PM9/17/03
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I do have a quick question about Illustrator 8 and Fontographer and hope someone can offer some advice.

I'm designing a comic book font as a favor for a friend. When I install my new TT fonts (regular, italic, bold, bold italic) on my Windows 2000 system and use the Character menu in Illustrator 8 I get an asterisk (*) after two of the four custom fonts. I'm assuming something is wrong with the process I'm using and with the fonts, but what does the asterisk denote? And since one font appears twice in the Font List, why does one font have the asterisk and the other not have it? Since these fonts appear and behave as expected in Word and WordPad I assume there is a definite difference in the way Illustrator handles the fonts (Microsoft seems to fudge type styles for which no true font exists (bold, italic, etc.-- I'm assuming Illustrator wouldn't do this voluntarily) I bought my copy of Fontographer 4.1 in a used bookstore and have no manual for it, sorry. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Andrew

Ian A. Wright

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Sep 27, 2003, 5:59:55 PM9/27/03
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Andrew:

You talk about Fontographer and also "... my new TT fonts ..." Are you creating your own fonts? Are you modifying existing fonts? How are you installing those fonts? Do you have Adobe Type manager Deluxe 4.1 or a similar font utility?

Illustrator is very picky about font construction and naming. You might want to inquire about this in the Type Forum also.

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