Creating Own FONT Family

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I want to create my own font family.
Can anybody help me in creating font family.
thanks in advance.

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Create Exclusive Font Family/Grouping for Photoshop/Adobe Products.

Hi, I'm new to using fonts as groupings for decals and dingbats.
I'm using a specific set on a lot of projects. I looked in the help but I could find out how to group fonts into a set, or font family.
I've been doing it the slow way, typing in the name and searching through but with 21+ sets it's time consuming remembering the names and which ones belong in each set.
Atm I just write the groupings down with pen and paper to save time.
Hope someone is nice enough to share this simple trick.
Cheers,
Adam

I can speak only for Windows systems and there I currently know:
- Air
- Shockwave Player
For Photoshop Elements (as example) there exist already the "Adobe Application Manager".
Flash/Shockwave Player, Adobe Reader and Air should be also updated via "Adobe Application Manager".
There it should be possible to set for each application, if we want also beta updates if available or not.

Can I create my own font in photoshop and how?

Hello frnds,
I want to create my own font for my website . Can i do it using photoshop and how?
I even want to specify icons as fonts how to do that? Please help....

It's the sort of question that you need Google for, because there is way too much involved to give you step by step in this forum.
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Space appearing in name of just one font family member

Hi, I have a problem with InDesign CS4 adding a space in the name of just one particular style of a font family.
This is happening with a company's custom-produced corporate typeface. It has a Font Suitcase file (named "XY Com") and four corresponding Type-1 PostScript files (named "XYCom", "XYComBol", "XYComIta" and "XYComBolIta") for the Regular, Bold, Italic and BoldItalic styles.
For the Regular version, InDesign CS4 lists the name as "XY Com", but for other styles it lists the family as "XYCom" (i.e. without a space in the name).
So as well as the family is not getting grouped properly in the various menus, ID also gives an error message about the 'missing' font when opening files created in ID2.0 which use the correct (?) name.
The problem just seems to be happening in ID CS4 (and IIRC in ID CS3, which I had installed briefly). In InDesign 2.0, the font family shows up correctly grouped, as likewise in Font Book, Linotype FontExplorer X, the standard OS X font selection dialog, etc.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Stewart.
ID CS4 v6.0, OS X v10.5.5.

Eric, thanks for the suggestions. I have tried deleting those files and clearing the font caches but the problem persists.
I have noticed that a different font with a Suitcase/PostScript file combination does not have the problem - but this font is different in that it has a Suitcase file for each PostScript font file, rather than one Suitcase file for several PostScript font file.
So, it looks like when there is a font family with a Suitcase file referencing multiple PostScript files, InDesign is using the long font name for one style (always the Normal/Regular style?) and the short font name for the others.
I wonder whether this is just happening on my own system or whether it is a general problem. Does anybody want to check?
Some example fonts that exhibit the problem are the Image Club Graphics fonts on the Adobe Action Pack Graphics CD that came with PageMaker a few years ago, if anybody has that lying around.
Cheers,
Stewhttp://www.adobeforums.com/Images/m/pstmsg.gifart.

***FONT ISSUES: How do I create a font repository/server??? ***

Before I explain my font problem, let me first say that I hope that SOMEONE out there/here has good knowledge of fonts, (storage/management/etc.) and can take the time to help me out with my problem. I'd be ETERNALLY grateful for a solution to this problem!! Let me also explain the workflow setup I am coming from. I work at a production company that has 3 edit suites, accessing media from a SAN, managed by FibreJet software. We are running Apple Mac Pro's with 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon chips, and 8 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM memory. The 3 stations can have READ access to any one drive on the SAN at the same time with no problem, but only one station at a time can have WRITE access to a drive. We each have our own fonts (~2500) on our local systems, and we are all using Extensis Suitcase Fusion 12.1.6 to manage our fonts.
Over the past few months, a couple of projects have reminded us that we have to address a problem in the way we manage our fonts. A project was started in Edit 1 (E1). Footage was loaded, music added and graphics created all in E1. The graphics were made in the Title 3D generator. Near the end of the project, a change had to be made and the original editor and edit suite (E1) was unavailable, so another editor needed to make the change in E2. This is a workflow that we use all the time, and usually don't have a problem. However, this time, when the graphic change was made, either the font that was originally used was missing from E2, or it was not activated. In either case, FCP simply substituted another font in it's place. Unlike Photoshop, FCP does not give any warning when this happens, it just changes the font, so unless you are familiar with the project, you may not know that the change occurred.
As I said, these problems have reminded us that we have to address a problem in the way we manage our fonts. One solution I have thought of would be to consolidate all our fonts onto one of our SAN media drives, and always read that drive. We would then add fonts from this drive, instead of adding from our individual local drives, and hopefully avoiding the "font-switch" problem in the future.
Questions arise, such as: Will Extensis read a font from a SAN drive, or does it have to be local? Will there be a problem with the fact that the drive will be READ only, as opposed to having WRITE access, since all three of us cannot write to the same drive at the same time? Should we just use Apple's own FontBook, instead of Extensis Suitcase, or do we even look into something like Linotype's FontExplorer X, (which I stumbled upon during searches for solutions to our problem)?
If anyone has any answers to my questions, or any solutions we haven't thought of, I'd be very grateful for your help!

Will Extensis read a font from a SAN drive, or does it have to be local?
Here's a bit of information on a SAN setup.
Storage Area Network (SAN) is a high-speed subnetwork of shared storage devices. A storage device is a machine that contains nothing but a disk or disks for storing data. A SAN's architecture works in a way that makes all storage devices available to all servers on a LAN or WAN. As more storage devices are added to a SAN, they too will be accessible from any server in the larger network. In this case, the server merely acts as a pathway between the end user and the stored data.
Because stored data does not reside directly on any of a network's servers, server power is utilized for business applications, and network capacity is released to the end user.
So as I understand it, your Mac's will all see data on a SAN drive array the same as it would a drive that is part of any LAN or WAN. In other words, if activating fonts from a drive on a typical server works, then doing so from a SAN should work the same.
That said, I've never had the opportunity to try it. The easiest way to find out would be to simply drag some fonts into Suitcase that you know are on the SAN storage and see if the activate as you would expect. An issue that may come up is that multiple users may not be able to activate the same fonts at the same time. That wouldn't specifically be a write issue since Suitcase doesn't need to perform a write when opening fonts (other than to update the font cache files on the local drive), but rather if the server considers the files "locked" (in use) to the first user to access them. All depends on how the server is set up, or how Suitcase handles fonts it currently has active. That is, will the server lock the files, or Suitcase, if either?
One solution I have thought of would be to consolidate all our fonts onto one of our SAN media drives, and always read that drive. We would then add fonts from this drive, instead of adding from our individual local drives, and hopefully avoiding the "font-switch" problem in the future.
That would be my first suggestion whether you can read simultaneously read the fonts from the SAN drive or not. I imagine each project is kept in its own folder. Within that, all fonts should be kept together in a single subfolder. An obvious name for that folder is good, such as "Fonts_jobnumber". If Suitcase and/or the server will allow all of you to access the same fonts at the same time, just activate them from the SAN. If not, copy the fonts to your local drive first and then activate.
Should we just use Apple's own FontBook, instead of Extensis Suitcase, or do we even look into something like Linotype's FontExplorer X, (which I stumbled upon during searches for solutions to our problem)?
Font Book is a very weak font manager. It's only advantage in a case like this is that every font you open gets copied to the local drive into one of the two Fonts folder you can designate in its preferences. Then you're always opening the fonts locally. The bad part is that when you use hundreds or thousands of fonts, they all get copied to your Mac as you add fonts. This increases startup times, sometimes dramatically as Font Book has to check all of those fonts during startup against its database to see which should be active and which not. The larger that database gets, the more likely it is to get corrupted.
Suitcase is a far more elegant solution for heavy font usage since you can activate fonts in place. They don't need to be copied anywhere to use them. FontExplorer X can be set up to do the same thing. Depending on what features of Suitcase you use, you may still prefer it over FontExplorer X, even though the latter is free.

DataGrid ItemRender and font family

i am writing a custom data grid ItemRender that, for every
cell, displays a numeric value. Additionally, if the xml data
structure defines an attribute for a given row, it is supposed to
display a colored arrow in the same cell.
Reading the data and determining if to display the arrow, and
the color of the arrow work fine. I am trying to embed the
windgings font to display the arrow, that way I can set the color
programatically. As I said, reading the data works fine, the
coloring of the 'arrow' works fine. My problem is I cannot change
the fontFamily of any label in the item renderer. Even the entire
renderer itself. Below is my code, followed by several other things
I have tried. Thanks for the help.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:HBox xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
width="100%" height="100%"
implements="mx.controls.listClasses.IDropInListItemRenderer"
horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off">
<mx:Style>
@font-face
src: local("wingdings");
fontFamily: myArrowFont;
font-anti-alias-type: advanced;
font-weight: bold;
.arrowStyle
fontFamily: myArrowFont;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 12;
</mx:Style>
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.controls.listClasses.BaseListData;
import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridListData;
protected var _listData:DataGridListData;
public function get listData():BaseListData
return _listData;
public function set listData(value:BaseListData):void
_listData = DataGridListData(value);
invalidateProperties();
override public function set data(value:Object):void
super.data = value;
cellArrow.setStyle('color',value[_listData.dataField].@color);
switch(value[_listData.dataField][email protected]())
case 'up':
cellArrow.text = 'é';
break;
case 'down':
cellArrow.text = 'ê';
break;
case 'equal':
cellArrow.text = 'd';
break;
default:
cellArrow.text = '';
break;
cellText.text = value[_listData.dataField];
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Label id="cellText" text=""/>
<mx:Spacer width="100%"/>
<mx:Label id="cellArrow" styleName="arrowStyle"
text=""/>
</mx:HBox>
I have tried using <mx:Label id="cellArrow"
fontFamily='myArrowFont'/>
I have set the fontFamily='myArrowFont' in the base HBox tag
as well, and it doesn't change the font of either the cellArrow or
cellText label.
I have also used
cellArrow.setStyle('fontFamily','myArrowFont') in the override set
data method.
I have written the same component in ActionScript
implementing the same functionality.
The cellArrow label's text and color are set correctly to the
data, however I cannot get the font to change to windgings.
I have tried setting the DataGridColumn fontFamily to the
wingdings font, and all it does is change the header text of the
column, not any of the rows.
The actual datagrid is created entirely in actionscript,
because it is part of a control that will build a datagrid with X
number of columns, defined in a data structure. That code works
fine as well, and is below, incase it helps.
//_dataP is an XMLList from an httpservice or web service
that defines our grids
var colsX:XMLList = _dataP..column; //get an xmllist of our
columns
var len:int = colsX.length(); //and store the length
var cols:Array = new Array(); //create an empty array to hold
each column
var col:DataGridColumn; //a data grid column reference
for(var i:int = 0; i < len; i++)
col = new DataGridColumn(); //create a new column
col.headerText = colsX
.@text; //set the header text
col.dataField = colsX.@field; //and data field
col.itemRenderer = new ClassFactory(quadBoxItemRenderer);
cols.push(col); //add it to the array
_grid.columns = cols; //set our columns array as the columns
of the grid
var rows:XMLList = _dataP..row;
_grid.rowCount = (rows.length() == 0) ? 1 : rows.length();
_grid.dataProvider = rows; //and give it the list of rows
_grid.percentWidth = 100;
_gridBox.addChild(_grid);
any help is vastly appreciated. Thanks.

Disregard my question - I've unfortunately failed to check the font-family string as submitted by the server and it turned out to still have a colon character in front of it...
I guess I've spent a few too many nights working on this making me susceptible to tiredness and a strangely blank mind...
My apologies,
Rogier

How do I upload a font family?

I''m uploading a book as PDF pages to an on demand printer.
The printer would like the entire font family included even though
I'm only using one weight (style) each of 2 fonts.
How do I go about uploading the entire font families?
I seem to think I did this once before, but don't recall the step.
Please give me a step by step instructions.
Thank you.

I think I see what you're going after.
Open your project in Quark 8. Choose File > Collect for Output. The first thing it asks is "Save Project before continuing with Collect for Output?" Meaning, it wants to save the file even if you haven't changed anything. That's okay, you can just dump the copy of the document later. Click "Save".
A dialogue box will come up. Create a new folder somewhere using the button at the lower left. The desktop is usually the easiest place to put things. If you want, you can change the name of the file at the top, but it usually makes the most sense to leave it the same name as the file you opened. Choose the new folder you created and click "Save".
That just writes the open document to the newly created folder. Now you get the opportunity to save the rest of the related items. Turn on the check boxes for "Linked Pictures", "Printer Fonts", "Color Profiles" and "Screen Fonts". You don't want "Layout" on because you just did that. Having it on will cause the rest of the collection to fail. Click "Save". Actually, since you already have everything but the fonts as part of the PDF file, all you need is the "Printer Fonts" and "Screen Fonts".
A nag box will appear explaining the legality of copying fonts that may be copyrighted. Click "OK".
A copy of your document, images and fonts will now all be in the folder you created. You don't need the Quark document or images, but all of the fonts you need to send to the publisher will be there.

Problem with font-family name

I have adobe Univers LT Std font purchased and installed on my PC, but there is a problem when I try to use it on the webpage. The font has otf format. I noticed that Chrome and FireFox use different font-family names for this font. FireFox 25.0 seems to use OT Family name (Univers LT Std) as a font-family value, and Chrome 30 uses PS font name (UniversLTStd). So I ended up writing my css like this:
p {
font-family: UniversLTStd, Univers LT Std;
Is there a way to avoid writing multiple family names for a single font to work in different browsers?
I've checked the font's attributes with FontLab Studio:
Basic set of font names:
Family name: Univers LT Std 55
PS font name: UniversLTStd
Full name: Univers LT Std 55 Roman
Menu name: Univers LT Std 55
FOND name: Univers LT Std 55
OpenType-specific names:
OT Family name: Univers LT Std
OT style name: 55 Roman
Mac name: Univers LT Std 55
But didn't find any universal name to use as a font-family.

Hello Ragu,
Newly created font family for FR is ZNGO (Similiar to Gothic font). I can see this font family via SE73.
If I execute the script for FR language output is porpor.
Now, we have added 2 more countries UK and Germany. So client wants ouput exactly in the same way as that of FR. So I am using ZNGO in paragraph formats. But output for FR an EN doses not contain this font family. I think when script is called in EN and DE language, somehow it does not detect ZNGO font family.
So my question is (again) whether font famliy is langauage dependent? If yes, then how to change/view languages for font family. is there any option in SE73 or any other transaction? If not, then why am i facing this problem?
Anup

Why Acrobat x professional is changing the text formatting specifically the font family and the font size of the text in my pdf on exporting it to Microsoft word file format ?How should i stop Acrobat x professional from doing that so that i get an exact

Why Acrobat x professional is changing the text formatting specifically the font family and the font size of the text in my pdf on exporting it to Microsoft word file format ?How should i stop Acrobat x professional from doing that so that i get an exactly same word file on exporting it from its pdf counterpart?

I was testing the preciseness & efficiency of Adobe acrobat x professional's doc conversion capabilities. As i have to take a document editing project in future which is going to need lot of pdf to word and vice versa conversions . What I did was I created a test word document converted into a pdf using a pdf maker in my word 2007 , Acrobat did convert the document from word to pdf keeping everything in the source file intact , However when i tried the other way round and attempted to convert the same pdf to word 2007 file format I lost my formatting ?So the font that I used to create the pdf are the ones taken from word 2007 which i believe is using the fonts that are installed in my computer. Any suggestions on how to preserve the formatting of the document after converting it from pdf to word file format?
Regards
Mike

How create new font in sap

Hi,
We want use Times roman in our smart form.
i tried to load the fonts using spad and se73.
still it is not reflecting in the report.
regards,
viren.

Hi,
Apart from SE73 i think that you have to create a new print control, which will probably contain the name of the font in hexadecimal code. I am not very sure of that but you can find the following SAP note a bit helpful...
SAP Note Number: 12462
How can I define a new printer font?Version: 7, Note Language: EN, Released on: 28.08.1998
Symptom
Key word: Printer font
What settings have to be made to define a new font for an R/3 device type (that is, a new printer font) that can be used for SAPscript documentation output.
Additional key words
Printer, font, printer font, device type, fontmetrics, AFM file, SE73
Cause and prerequisites
You would like to use a new font on the printer.
Solution
General advice:
1. This procedure can be used only if the desired font is available on the printer (that is, installed on the printer itself, installed via font cassette, resident in the printer via softfont download or, in case of device type SAPWIN/WIN, installed on the Windows PC) and can be called with a short printer command (max. 29 bytes). This printer command is maintained in the print control.
Solution procedure:
1. The original SAP printer type used previously must be copied to a customer printer type with a name starting with Z... (see Note 3166 for reasoning behind this). The function "Utilities->Copy device type" from transaction SPAD (spool administration) is used for this.
Example: HPLJIIID is copied to ZHPLJ3.
2. A new print control SFxxx must be maintained for device type Z.... It contains in most cases the printer control commands for setting the desired font. To find out what this printer command looks like, refer to the printer manual and the print controls SFxxx already contained in printer definition Z... . A certain amount of knowledge of the printer language is a prerequisite. The xxx numbering of the SFxxx print controls is arbitrary.
NOTE: The exact contents of the SFxxx print controls depend on the SAPscript printer driver used. For information on this, consult the CD documentation ("Basis system administration printer handbook") and the field documentation (F1 help) for input field "Print control" in SE73, Printer font maintenance.
Printer driver HPL2 (PCL 5 printer):
SFxxx must contain the PCL 5 command for character set and print selection. CAUTION: As of Release 4.0A there are special rules which apply if the flag "Scalable font" is activated.
Printer driver POST (Post script printer):
SFxxx must contain the name of the Post script font, for example "Helvetica"
Printer driver PRES (Kyocera PRESCRIBE printer):
SFxxx must contain the PRESCRIBE command "FONT xx:" for font selection, for example "FONT 42;"
Printer driver SWIN (Windows print via SAPWIN/SAP1pd):
SFxxx must contain the Windows font name. CAUTION: As of Release 4.0A special rules apply if the flag "Scalable font" is activated for the printer font.
Printer driver STN2 (Target printer):
SFxxx must contain the complete command for the selection of the
character set, the increment, bold and italic print and font.
Print control SFxxx is defined for device type Z... in transaction SPAD under the heading "Print control for device type". Example: print control SF900 for device type ZHPLJ3 with replacement text (i.e. printer command)
1B28304E1B28733070313068313276307330623354 is created.
3. In the SAPscript font maintenance transaction SE73 under "Printer fonts", a new entry must be made for the desired font on the desired device type. The following information must be given:
 device type Z...
(printer type to which the font belongs)
 family ....
(Font name used in R/3, for example COURIER, HELVE, LETGOTH, LNPRINT, TIMES)
 size ...
(Font size 1/10 point, for example 240, for printer drivers that support scalable fonts, 000 is entered here)
 bold .
(X if bold type, otherwise blank)
 italic .
(X if italic type, otherwise blank)
 CPI ..,..
(number of characters per inch (CPI)
If font is not a proportional font (for example HELVE,TIMES),
for example 05.00)
 PrtCtl 1 SFxxx
(Refer to field documentation (F1 Document) for exact meaning. The name of the 2nd created printer control is normally entered here.
 PrtCtl 2 SFxxx
Refer to field documentation (F1 document) for exact meaning. The name of the 2nd created printer control is normally entered here.
If the font is a proportional font (HELVE or TIMES), an AFM file that contains the width values for the individual characters in the font must be entered under "Printer fonts" in SE73. Direct maintenance of the AFM data is done from the list of printer fonts with Menu "Edit -> fontmetric using a menu function. To do this you place the cursor on the line with the newly created printer font and choose "Edit->Copy fontmetrics" on the menu. If you have created, for example, a new printer font
ZHPLJ3 HELVE 200 _ _
you can copy the metric of
ZHPLJ3 HELVE 160 _ _
here.
Releases before 3.0A do not have this menu function, and you must manually copy the AFM files from the group box to the new printer font via the XX.XX function in the AFM editor. Then the new AFM files can be checked for correctness (Menu "Fontmetrics ->Check") and saved.
As of Release 3.0 it is possible to establish a link to the fontmetrics of another device type or to a default (all characters with width 500) instead of copying the fontmetrics explicitly. You can check the correctness of the complete font definition in SE73 in the list of printer fonts with the function "Edit->Generate font def.".
4. As a final step, the device type of the output device used must be changed from the SAP original to the new printer definition Z... in transaction SPAD. This is done in SPAD under the heading "Output devices".
Example: printer LP05 previously had device type HPLJIIID and is now being given device type ZHPLJ3.
Source code corrections
Thanks and Regards,
Bharat Kumar Reddy.V

Identifying Full Font Family Names from Acrobat "Properties"

I routinely update PDFs where the originator is unavailable to question about typography issues. The problem I'm having currently, and continue to have, is that Acrobat (on V8) identifies font names differently from say...the Adobe Store.
For instance, currently I'm editing a PDF that uses fonts from the "HelveticaNeue" family. I don't have this font, so if I go over to the Adobe store and try to find it, I get multiple types of "HelveticaNeue" font, and none of them are exactly what Acrobat provides as the name.
For instance:
Acrobat says: HelveticaNeue-Black
Adobe store offers:
Helvetica Neue Std Black
Helvetica Neue 93 Black
Helvetica Neue 95 Black
and so on and so forth
But NO "HelveticaNeue-Black" is in the list.
Neither the spelling of the Acrobat font family, or the actual full name seem to match anything in the Adobe store.
So, does anyone know a way to figure out exactly which font family Acrobat has in the PDF?
Thanks in advance.

Chris Souther asked:
"Does anyone know a way to figure out exactly which font family
Acrobat has in the PDF?"
PDF's may include individual fonts, not families. For the most part,
the font names shown are the actual font names. Or, more precisely,
the PS Font Names.
I'm looking at an older Type 1 font right now that has the following
names in its name table (or at least the ones I can see in FontLab):
Family Name: Helvetica Neue
Weight: Black
Style Name: Regular
PS Font Name: HelveticaNeue-Black
Full Name: Helvetica 95 Black
Menu Name: Helvetica 95
Fond Name: Helvetica 95
To prevent conflicts, Adobe did some name modification when they
created OpenType versions of fonts:
The OTF version of the same font shows:
Family Name: Helvetica 95 Black
Weight: Heavy
Style Name: Regular
PS Font Name: HelveticaNeue-Black
Full Name: Helvetica Neue 95 Black
Menu Name: Helvetica 95 Black
Fond Name: Helvetica 95 Black
It appears that either one of these might be the one used in your PDF
- and they should be interchangeable.
Just to confuse things further, the fontnames for embedded subsets may
be preceded by random 6-letter-and-a-plus-sign strings like HFTRDS+,
or in some cases where the PDF isn't produced by Adobe Acrobat,
TrueType fonts might have peculiar names like TT493875.
Note that with the exception of a small "webfonts' collection Adobe
has never produced Truetype fonts. If, as you indicated in another
gorup, you need to install these fonts, you need them in T1 or OpenType.
- Herb

Some sites don't have symbols unless "allow pages to choose their own fonts" is checked

With option "allow pages to choose their own fonts..." deselected, some symbols are improperly displayed.
I think I know what's happening. With the option selected, FF displays some symbol characters with the wrong font.
But, this doesn't make sense, since these symbols are not in any language font. None of them will produce the correct symbols if selected as the personal preferred font. So, it's incorrect to render these symbols in any of the fonts selected as my personal preference, regardless of status of this option.
So, FF should use the a symbol font for these symbols regardless of this preference setting.

You can accomplish what you want with a user style. Here are step-by-step directions. If you need any more help, just ask.
# Leave "Allow pages to choose their own fonts" enabled.
# Install Stylish.
#* https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/stylish/
# After Stylish is installed, open the Add-ons Manager, User Styles category.
# Click the Write New Style button at the top.
# In the style editor window, paste either of the following. Give the style a name and then click the Save button.
'''Variant #1''' 
This is the easiest and safest thing to do. It applies your default sans-serif font to all sites, except those you specify. To specify exceptions, replace the placeholders with actual domain names. To add new exceptions, add another '''|''' symbol followed by the domain name.
<pre><nowiki>@-moz-document regexp("https?://(?!(example-of-an-exception.com|www.placeholder.site-exception.net)).*") {
* { font-family: sans-serif !important; }
}</nowiki></pre>
'''Variant #2''' 
This requires a bit of work on your part. You must know the font that's being used to display the symbols in question. Right-click a symbol and choose Inspect Element. In the Inspector pane, click the Fonts tab. You should see the font family names listed there, labeled with "remote". The actual font family name is below, under "Used as:". 
You're going to want to specify your ideal font first, then the site's fonts after that. If certain characters can't be rendered with the font you want, then Firefox should fall back to the second font in the list, or the third, and so on. If none of the specified fonts contain the required characters, then Firefox will display the Unicode codepoints (rectangles with numbers in them).
<pre><nowiki>@-moz-document url-prefix("http://"), url-prefix("https://") {
* { font-family: Arial, "Segoe UI Symbol", FontAwesome, PlaceholderFontOne, "Placeholder Font Two", sans-serif !important; }
}</nowiki></pre>
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Why won't website navigation links/images/buttons load properly when I set my own font & font size options?

I've just noticed a glitch in Firefox when I go to Tools >> Options >> Content >> Fonts & Colors >> Advanced, and set my own font and font size, and force websites to use them. For some reason, this makes websites' navigation buttons fail to show properly.
For example, a website's search bar will show, but the magnifying glass icon will be a box-with-tiny-code. The boxes-with-tiny-code will also replace things like heart icons for Like buttons, arrow icons for Reply and Page Up/Down, things like that.
The link itself is still there, but with all the buttons replaced by identical-looking boxes-with-tiny-code, it's impossible to see what to click without mousing over and hoping a pop-up label will tell me what to use.
Is there a way around this, because I'd like to be able to set a larger font size without making webpages unusable?
ETA: Images of my Tumblr dash, which shows the prblem most clearly, and the font & size options I picked.

It could be there is no room for the icons to show properly.
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Upgrade to 14.0.1 Now font-family settings ignored for certain fonts e.g. Expert Sans

Accepts {font-family: Arial, sans-serif, verdana} etc.
But {font-family: Expert Sans, Arial, sans-serif, verdana} will fall back to Arial even though Expert Sans is installed on client PC. Works pre 14.0.1 and on Safari, Chrome, IE6/7/8 etc, so this is a feature of 14.0.1 release.

Since the option to uncheck "allow pages to choose their own fonts" only appears after "advanced" is clicked, I understood what you meant.
Let me put it this way. What I am expecting to happen: when I uncheck "allow pages to choose their own fonts," web pages will not choose their own fonts, but use the ones I've selected. What happens instead at tumblr: my selected fonts do not get used.
To make it apparent, I selected Comic Sans for everything, and unchecked "allow pages to choose their own fonts." The results are shown in the first image below. I used sfgate.com as an example of a site where unchecking "allow pages..." works.
The second image shows the font info from sfgate using the handy plug-in you mentioned. Comic Sans, my selected font, appears.
The third image shows what I get at tumblr with the same settings I had at sfgate. As you can see, tumblr ignores my designation to use Comic Sans.
For comparison purposes: the fourth image shows tumblr font info when "allow pages to choose their own fonts" IS checked.
I have tested this with Firefox 12, 13, and 14 on Windows XP and Vista. I have tested it with multiple fonts (the font I usually designate is Verdana, but visually it's too close to Arial, so I used Comic Sans here) Tumblr ignoring the unchecking of "allow pages to choose their own fonts" happens in every instance. In short: tumblr.com breaks the Firefox option to choose your own fonts. Unchecking "allow pages to choose their own fonts" does not work at tumblr.
Please note that by tumblr I do not mean individual blogs [myblog.tumblr.com], where the fonts can be set by the blog owner, and where unchecking "allow pages..." works. The problem is at tumblr.com, and also at tumblr.com/dashboard, the dashboard being what signed in tumblr users view, and which is 90% of their tumblr "experience."
Another note: in my test, you'll notice I chose the same font for serif and sans-serif. Don't get sidetracked by that. Every version of Firefox, since it was first introduced, will happily use a single font across the board. There is no need to choose an actual serif font for "serif." The font I normally choose for both categories is Verdana.

Can't use my own font due to license restriction?

I created my own font ("GoudyMusic") using fontlab.com | TypeTool3. When I try to 'print' to a pdf using Adobe PDF, I get:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: GoudyMusic cannot be embedded because of licensing restrictions. ]%%
%%[ Font vendor (Macromedia) does not permit this font to be embedded in PDF. ]%%
[Warning] The font GoudyMusic could not be embedded because of licensing restrictions.
Text may display incorrectly on platforms that do not have this font installed.
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: show; ErrorInfo: CharOffsets º %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%
Help help!
THANX!
william zeitler

Apparently fontlab.com's TypeTool3 does not allow you to set licensing, and it defaults to 'not-embeddable'.
You have to upgrade to Fontographer (another $300) to be able to set the licensing. Now that I've done that, it works.

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