I finally managed to connect, and have asked Daniel to check this thread as well since it contains relevant information. Will keep everyone posted.
Thanks,
Egan.

Indeed, I am in the process of publishing book one of ten of a High Fantasy Epic (should it strike your interest, more info at epicofahiram.com), and, initially, I picked Archeologicap as the font for the title and Adobe Jenson Pro for the body. I was not looking for free fonts, but for fonts that would match the tone of the epic which is a bit like Batman and Frodo meet Ali-Baba. Archeologicap proved too difficult to use whereas Adobe Jenson Pro works perfectly. Now, I know very little about fonts and so I thought Archeologicap was the exception to the rule. Off I went on another hunt and after reviewing 2,500 fonts (without worry about the price), I narrowed it down to two: Ringbearer and Yaghatan. In the end, the team helping me with the publishing process advised against Ringbearer since it is so strongly connected with the Lord of the Rings Movie. Further, the reaction of the 15 members on this team was unanimous: Yaghatan fits just right.

Which brings me to this question: What is the going rate for creating a font? How much would I have to pay to turn Yaghatan into a fail-safe font? Like Toto said, I will be testing this font through the printing process, but I do worry that I will hit a significant snag, and if I can get someone to rework this font for an affordable price, I will consider it.

By the way, the author has yet to answer my request and I do not have any other means to reach him.


Egan.

Rodolphe,

Just tried the new font file: much better. I don't see any of the issues I had before. I still don't know how to insert an image but I am able to scale the font up without an issue. So, yes, it works for what I needed to do: titles for the chapters.

Thank you again, this is wonderful.

Having said that, would still love to know what else needs to be done to turn this font into a truly usable one.

Thank you,

Egan.

Hi Koeiekat and Rodolphe,

First off, thank you very much for your assistance. This is truly fantastic.
Koeiekat, quick question: What level of effort would be required and at what cost to make this font truly usable?
Would love to hear back what you think,

Thank you,

Egan

Thank you, toto@k22, I am not familiar with font editing. I am a user of the font and would need far more specific directions, I am afraid, to fix this problem on my own without unwanted side-effects. I do not expect anyone to walk me through these steps; that would be too much to ask. Instead, what I did (I know it is a kludge), I figured out that if I shift the position of the letters down by the size of the font then the problem goes away. Since I am using the font for titles only, this is a workable solution. I have yet to test it when saving the book as pdf or when uploading it to create space. This is why I would love to have this problem taken care of.

I have contacted the author and thus far, no answer. I will keep trying.

Egan.

Sure thing, but how do I do that? the textbox editor does not seem to allow for attachments or inclusion of pictures. Maybe I do not have the right to do that?

I am trying to use the yataghan font in Microsoft Word 2013 running under windows 7 Enterprise.
The letters in that font are clipped off, that is the top of the letters are missing 10 pixels or so, depending on the font size I choose.
Emailed the author of the font and thus far, no response.
Reading about this topic, I do have a sense that perhaps it is an issue with the ascenders and descenders (sp?) not being set properly?
That's a bit beyond my abilities.
Any suggestion on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks