Well Fontographer is no longer made so it doesnt help. Plus I cant always go back to whoever created the file to start with. You wont believe how many hands it goes thru before it gets to me and their not all in our company. Usually it works like client>third-party>us. And sometimes their are more people in between us and the client. I know how difficult it is to get it converted to paths/curves cause I've had to ask for it before and got told that we didnt have that kind of time or the originator of the file was unaccessible for whatever reason. I'm not really asking for font experts here. I just need some willing individuals to help me test some possibilities out so that I can come up with a solution before launching it on our poor clientele LOL