Hello everybody,
I just came here upon suggestion of a friend in another forum, and I'm looking to understand what's goin on with my custom font...
Here's what happens:
I just made by trial-and-error a couple of font file with FontForge, by substituting the letters glyphs with fixed length symbols, to write guitar fretboard diagrams in a word processor, without the need of external graphic programs, etc...
I use LibreOffice as editor, and the font works pretty well, al least for my needs...
The problem: when I color part of the diagram with a different color, the vertical alignment of that row gets screwed!
I know that LibreOffice has some rendering problem, especially when zooming in and out the page, but this issue is consistent even after refresh, or close/reopen document.
At first I thought it was a LibreOffice rendering problem and I already opened a Ticket at their bugzilla account, but in the meantime I noticed that other character sets having semi-graphic symbols do align perfectly even if colored...
So i started to think that maybe the problem is in the font?...![]()
My questions are: Could it be possible? How/where I check? Is there any font building guide that covers specifically these issues?
If you are interested, you can find the font files at my blog page
http://enricodellaquila.blogspot.it/p/my-fonts-page-for-guitar.html
and here is the bug submission at LibreOffice:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97261
NOTE: the only chars that have a non-zero width are the frets and the spaces.
All the other symbols have zero width and left offset, so they go overlapping the fret on their left... and its possible to stack one another, e.g. a cross inside a box or a circle...
some usage examples are at the facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/My-Guitar-Fonts-450268108496016/
or in this PDF document
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0hK6bTYBuKreHlzN0RJeTBmazA/view
everything works fine, unless I color one of the symbols.
If I color the whole character row, it works without problems...
has anyone an idea of the possible causes? Could be a malformed/incomplete font file?
thank you in advance
Enrico
I just came here upon suggestion of a friend in another forum, and I'm looking to understand what's goin on with my custom font...
Here's what happens:
I just made by trial-and-error a couple of font file with FontForge, by substituting the letters glyphs with fixed length symbols, to write guitar fretboard diagrams in a word processor, without the need of external graphic programs, etc...
I use LibreOffice as editor, and the font works pretty well, al least for my needs...
The problem: when I color part of the diagram with a different color, the vertical alignment of that row gets screwed!
I know that LibreOffice has some rendering problem, especially when zooming in and out the page, but this issue is consistent even after refresh, or close/reopen document.
At first I thought it was a LibreOffice rendering problem and I already opened a Ticket at their bugzilla account, but in the meantime I noticed that other character sets having semi-graphic symbols do align perfectly even if colored...
So i started to think that maybe the problem is in the font?...
My questions are: Could it be possible? How/where I check? Is there any font building guide that covers specifically these issues?
If you are interested, you can find the font files at my blog page
http://enricodellaquila.blogspot.it/p/my-fonts-page-for-guitar.html
and here is the bug submission at LibreOffice:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97261
NOTE: the only chars that have a non-zero width are the frets and the spaces.
All the other symbols have zero width and left offset, so they go overlapping the fret on their left... and its possible to stack one another, e.g. a cross inside a box or a circle...
some usage examples are at the facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/My-Guitar-Fonts-450268108496016/
or in this PDF document
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0hK6bTYBuKreHlzN0RJeTBmazA/view
everything works fine, unless I color one of the symbols.
If I color the whole character row, it works without problems...
has anyone an idea of the possible causes? Could be a malformed/incomplete font file?
thank you in advance
Enrico