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by Philip L
06 Dec 2022
Forum: Kern On forum
Topic: KO kerns deleted masters
Replies: 1
Views: 4967

KO kerns deleted masters

For a quick kerning check I deleted some of my masters (while KO was already open) and ran Kern on. The progress bar comments still referred to the non-existing masters and it took as long as still having all the masters. Saving the file does not solve the problem, but restarting KO of course.
by Philip L
06 Dec 2022
Forum: Kern On forum
Topic: Kerning groups and missing glyphs
Replies: 6
Views: 9603

Re: Kerning groups and missing glyphs

Thank you for the reply. > combining them in the same kerning group usually leads to additional glyph-glyph pairs Okay, too many questions here. I guess for now I skip that part where I try to understand the kern subtable. Google and FontTableViewer couldn’t help me. > strange type settings I mean c...
by Philip L
01 Dec 2022
Forum: Kern On forum
Topic: Kerning groups and missing glyphs
Replies: 6
Views: 9603

Re: Kerning groups and missing glyphs

When two glyphs have the same base, why would it result in a bigger kerning data size when putting them in the same kerning group? A font export doesn’t split them into glyph-glyph kerning pairs. I haven’t understood the reason why excluding them then so far. Do I worry too much about strange type s...
by Philip L
28 Nov 2022
Forum: Kern On forum
Topic: Demo deletes kerning groups irreversibly
Replies: 1
Views: 5051

Demo deletes kerning groups irreversibly

When I used the KO version 1.18 demo and I did not yet decide to buy the full version I clicked on Kern On to see what happens in the demo. Turned out that the demo stopped there. I did not notice before saving that this deleted the kerning groups. Might be annoying for undecisive buyers. I work wit...
by Philip L
28 Nov 2022
Forum: Kern On forum
Topic: Disappearing kerning
Replies: 3
Views: 5875

Re: Disappearing kerning

The same confusion happened to me. The first time I tested Kern On, I wondered why the KO window disappeared. I wanted to check if it crashed or showed some notification about a successful generating or so. Maybe a warning about deleting the former kerning before continuing would be useful? Also I t...