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• Why a font editor, aren't there enough fonts already?
• Why doesn't fontforge use the native MS Windows or Mac windowing system?
• Is it legal to modify a font? Is it ethical?
• What is a 12 point font?
• How do I set the line spacing on a font?
• How big will my glyphs be?
• What's a good license to use on an open source font?
• How do I install the fonts once I've made them?
• Why won't FontForge's fonts install on some MS windows machines?
• How do I edit fonts from my macintoy?
• How do create a mac font family? (How do I get the mac to group my fonts so that the italic and bold styles work)?
• Why doesn't ATM work with my fonts?
• How do I edit fonts on MS windows?
• Why don't my fonts work on windows?
• I have a truetype font with opentype tables, but windows displays the "TT" (truetype) icon and not the "O" icon. Why?
• When I load an otf or a type1 font most of my references have been replaced by inline copies. How do I get my references back?
• Does FontForge read in the old kerning information from fonts?
• How do I convert from one outline font format to another?
• How do I convert from one bitmap format to another?
• How do I convert from an outline format to a bitmap format?
• How do I convert from a bitmap format to an outline format?
• How do I convert from AAT to OpenType?
• How do I convert from OpenType to AAT?
• How do I make it use hint substitution?
• How do I make it use flex hints?
• My glyphs are all perfectly hinted, why do some stems have different widths (or appear fuzzy, or fade away completely)?
• Why does fontforge say "Error loading dynamic library" when trying to import an image file?
• Why does fontforge say "EPS file is too complex to be understood"?
• How do I set a particular bit in the OS/2 table (or any other)?
• FontForge's grey background distresses me. How do I change it?
• The fonts FontForge uses in its GUI are too small (too big) how do I change them?
• How do I mark a font as monospaced?
• How do I tell fontforge about a new encoding?
• How do I add a glyph with a new name?
• Why does fontforge give some glyphs the wrong name?
• Why isn't my Open Type font much smaller than the .pfb file?
• What's the difference between OpenType and PostScript (or TrueType) fonts?
• What is the difference between AAT (Apple Advanced Typography) and OpenType?
• Why does a font, which worked fine under 10.3 fail on Mac 10.4 (Tiger)?
• After I generate a font and quit, why does FontForge ask if I want to save the font? I didn't change anything.
• Why doesn't TeX work with my fonts?
• Why doesn't FontForge let me edit an '.mf' file?
• Why does my window get iconified when I want to minify the view?
• Why isn't there a character named "mu" in my greek font? (or "Delta", or "Omega", or "pi1")
• Why doesn't Edit->Copy copy glyph names as well as glyph info?
• Why does Edit->Paste complain about name duplication?
• What on earth are the cidmap files, and should I care about them?
• (What is a CID-keyed font?)
• Does the simplify command lose accuracy?
• How does FontForge convert a cubic spline into a quadratic spline for truetype?
• How do I set the default glyph of a font?
• I loaded a ttf font, made a few changes and generated a new font. The changed glyphs don't look anywhere near as nice as the originals. Why?
• I generated an opentype (or truetype) font and windows wouldn't install it. Why not?
• I looked at kaiu.ttf or mingliu.ttf and the outlines looked nothing like the correct glyphs. What's wrong?
• When I use Element->Build->Build Accented Glyph to build one of the Extended Greek glyphs (U+1F00-U+1FFF) FontForge picks the wrong accents. Why?
• When I use Element->Build->Build Accented Glyph to build accents over "u" or "y" I get the accent over one of the stems not centered on the glyph. Why?
• Why does ttf2afm crash on FontForge ttf files?
• Where can I find a list of known bugs in FontForge?
• My system keeps crashing because FontForge keeps running out of memory. What can I do about it?
• Why is FontForge so unstable?

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