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There are 'purists' who insist type should never be manipulated in terms of physical letter height. I wish the font height options thing was always visible, but it does seem to be 'sticky' once it is made visible in a document pre-set.

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It includes a few predefined sets of checks that large font distributors like Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts use.ДЄnd if you aren't already, you'll need to get comfortable with Python and command line tools, as they are a huge part of font development.ДЇYI, the Font Height Options feature in Adobe Illustrator was recently added just a few weeks ago with the '.3' update of Illustrator CC 2020.

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Just Google the names of tables and attributes you see in the XML file, which will usually take you to the OpenType Spec at, which does a decent job of explaining how each table works.ДЄnd another useful tool is FontBakery, a command line tool which performs a large number of QA checks on font files and generates a helpful report detailing any errors and how to fix them. The best part is you can make edits and then convert it back to OTF/TTF. One really helpful tool in understanding these sorts of problems is TTX, a command line tool commonly used by font engineers, that takes any OTF or TTF binary file and converts it into a human-readable XML file. Perhaps the app developers found it easier to measure an 'H' than to learn how to read the vertical metrics.ДЄnyway, if you want to solve the problem, WinPCSign offers a 1 month trial, so you can do the troubleshooting yourself instead of sending test fonts to the client. That is possible, and I have heard of applications that determine metrics by measuring certain glyphs, but in most cases it's a stupid way to get vertical metrics, since all fonts have vertical metrics defined in the font file.

But if you want your fonts to be compatible with as many apps as possible, you either have a long learning curve ahead of you, or you need to hire a font engineer.

Here's a really good article on different approaches to vertical metrics (useful even if Glyphs isn't your software of choice):Д«ottom line: if your customers are only using major design apps like Adobe CC, you can just export your OTF/TTF with the default settings in your chosen font design software, and you won't likely have problems.

Or ask the developers of the software for advice on what they expect for vertical metrics. So, the way to troubleshoot this is to get yourself a copy of the software in question, and test it until you can work out how it's interpreting the vertical metrics in your font. How much do you know about vertical metrics? Operating systems and applications have many different ways of interpreting them, due to a lack of standardization that spiralled out of control over the years.

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