I was working on my font today and when I generated an .otf file I found it was corrupt. The .otf will install but none of the open type features I've programmed work in Adobe software. The validation through Font Book suggests errors in the kern table.
Here is the thing that is leaving me totally confused. I have saved hundreds of versions of the .sfd source file. All previous versions of the source file result in the same corrupt .otf export in which the OTf features are broken. Previously these files have had successful exports. If I use FontForge to open previous .otf files of this font that are not corrupt and try to export a .otf from them I get the same corrupt result. This leads me to believe the issue is something wrong with my computer causing FontForge is suddenly producing corrupt fonts.
Previous .otf drafts are installing just fine.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling FontForge and XQaurtz. I tried installing a 2017 version of FontForge and using to edit previous .otf and it exported the same corrupt files. I've also tried deleting all of the kerning classes and stylisitc sets and then doing another export to .otf which fixes the validation error for the kern table but all of the OTF features are still broken. I've tried deleting all of my Adobe cache and restarting my machine and that did not help either.
Can anyone help me with any things i might try to move forward? Any suggestions for troubleshooting would help.
I think my next step is to get a friend to let me install FontForge on their machine and see if I can open the project and export successfully from there.
I have worked so hard on this font and have run into many problems like this with FontForge. I'm thinking at this point I'm so exhausted with it that I'd be willing to buy another software if I could use it to open one of my .otf drafts and move forward with my project.
Here is the thing that is leaving me totally confused. I have saved hundreds of versions of the .sfd source file. All previous versions of the source file result in the same corrupt .otf export in which the OTf features are broken. Previously these files have had successful exports. If I use FontForge to open previous .otf files of this font that are not corrupt and try to export a .otf from them I get the same corrupt result. This leads me to believe the issue is something wrong with my computer causing FontForge is suddenly producing corrupt fonts.
Previous .otf drafts are installing just fine.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling FontForge and XQaurtz. I tried installing a 2017 version of FontForge and using to edit previous .otf and it exported the same corrupt files. I've also tried deleting all of the kerning classes and stylisitc sets and then doing another export to .otf which fixes the validation error for the kern table but all of the OTF features are still broken. I've tried deleting all of my Adobe cache and restarting my machine and that did not help either.
Can anyone help me with any things i might try to move forward? Any suggestions for troubleshooting would help.
I think my next step is to get a friend to let me install FontForge on their machine and see if I can open the project and export successfully from there.
I have worked so hard on this font and have run into many problems like this with FontForge. I'm thinking at this point I'm so exhausted with it that I'd be willing to buy another software if I could use it to open one of my .otf drafts and move forward with my project.