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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
I know very little about font editing, but I use a freeware editor Type Light to make small custom fonts for dingbats, dividers, and such. It is not comprehensive, like Font Forge, but doesn't crash if you breathe on it, and does what I need. It does have a tool to let you increase spacing of glyphs, but it must be done one character at a time. So that would be tedious. Vertical spacing can be changed globally very easily in Type Light.
I am not sure if even FontForge has a way to *globally* increase horizontal spacing.
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I use the free Type Light too for a quick fix (font names, especially), but precisely that lack of increasing horizontal spacing globally led to my question here.
In the meantime I have followed Jon's link (thanks!) and at first sight it is indeed very easy to do in FontForge - except that Windows refuses to open the exported fonts and tells me thy aren't valid font files.
So, hours of troubleshooting ahead. I hate FontForge. (Although I have to admit the latest build seems to be more stable than the older ones. Hasn't crashed on me once so far, during an amount of fiddling which usually would have made it crash five times at least...)
(Secretly I am hoping one of the programming geniuses we have here would write a little script like sherman's utterly brilliant "Koboify Fonts" script. 
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