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    • #78982
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Hey guys,

      I am using this FabfeltScript Font from https://www.1001fonts.com/fabfeltscript-font.html.

      However, it is giving me some weird looking holes in the my text.

      Pls see this image: https://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=34ffbls&s=8#.Vi3n-K4rJYI

      Can anyone know how to solve this issue?

      many thanks@

    • #78985
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      It looks like it gets reversed out where two characters overlap. That is strange! But there is always a danger in using free fonts. You have to test them carefully. You might be able to get around it by converting to outlines or something. Not sure.

    • #78988

      Did you apply some kind of text effect?
      Does it do the same when you print (that was a screen shot wasn’t it?)?
      Does it go away with a different magnification? (I’ve had that before – odd artefacts that only appear on screen at certain magnifications)
      Does it appear in a PDF made from the InDesign file?
      Does it do it in software other than InDesign?

      Might help us narrow things down.

      Chris.

    • #78989

      I just looked inside the font and there are many, many issues with the font, including path direction issues. Paths need to be “wound” the same directions. The reason is because of the windings (path direction) is how a font distinguishes between what we see as solid and what we see as “holes,” like the inside of the lowercase d character. Both parts are actually “solid,” filled curves. But when the inside path is the opposite direction than the outside path, they reverse and one can see through the outside path.

      For instance, The cap A and the lowercase b. The cap A’s outside path is wound clockwise and the outside path of the lowercase d is wound counter-clockwise. So where they overlap the font subsystem for your operating system “creates” the “hole” where they overlap.

      I would recommend contacting the font author and seeing if they will fix it. The license doesn’t permit me to actually fix and regenerate the font, else I would for you. If you obtain explicit permission from the font author for me to do so, have him contact me. We can arrange a means of a 3-way contact and I would forward a fixed copy onto him as well. It takes 5 seconds to fix.

      Mike

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