Different glyph sorting on Adobe apps and Apple apps

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Hello,
I’m having issues with a display font I’m making for a client. Its an unicase font with double unicode on letters (A-Z), with 3 stylistic sets and dozens of Dliga.

It works fine with Adobe (AI, ID, PS). But with Apple (Pages, Keynote) and Font Explorer it changes glyphs order.
Example:
Instead “SPACE” it shows “€”. Instead “&” it shows “©”.

I guess the different programs are rendering the unicode charts differently. Although not sure…
Do you have any idea of how to solve this?
Thank you guys in advance.

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There you have a nice example of a corrupted font cache.
https://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/eliminating-font-cache-problems
https://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/testing-your-fonts-in-adobe-apps

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Hi Georg,
I have cleaned font cache but it persists.
The font file has been installed in 4 different macs (with no previous versions of the font) and the same problem happens. Other ideas?
Thank you!

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Can you send me the file?

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Just sent it on a private message.
Thanks,
B

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I got it to work. There was indeed an encoding problem. Here is what I did:

  1. In Font Info > Other Settings, disable Use Custom Naming.
  2. In Font view, select all glyphs and choose Glyph > Update Glyph Info.
  3. Repeat step 2.

And export. Again, do not install your font for testing. Rather, use the TextPreview app from the Tools section of this website.

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Hi @mekkablue, thanks for your prompt reply.
We have tried your suggested workaround (in two different computers) and got the same bug. No changes.
Now we have made a copy of the .glyphs file removing all ligatures, diacritics and rebuilding the opentype (automatically ) and the font performance is as expected (no wrong glyphs, and space working fine) although we lost all the .dliga.
Do you have any extra tip?
Any advice is appreciated,
B

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How do you test your font?

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  1. Cleaned fonts caché (twice, one with terminal and another one with Applescript)
  2. Erased manually any existing .otf of the font
  3. Performed your instructions in Glyphs file with a new file name and family name.
  4. Exported to Adobe Fonts folder
  5. Checked with Text Preview
  6. Doesn’t works (see attached image)

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I will try again today. I think I also rounded the coordinates of the nodes. That should be unrelated but who knows.

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Just to make sure as you didn’t mention it: Did you restart your Mac after cleaning up?

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yes I did it twice, I cleaned cache using the terminal, restarted, cleaned again with the apple script and restarted again.

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Hi @mekkablue and @GeorgSeifert . I tried rounding coordinates as Mekka said and it worked! :smiley: Thanks a lot for the support!

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