In reply to Curves and Nodes:
I have seen "Optimise" and "Clean up" functions in FLS5 but they appear to alter the curves a bit.
Indeed they do. But can you tell the difference?
The answer to that is mainly how you look for the difference. One way is to toggle back & forth with the glyph displayed at 256 points & watch things change. Yup, it's different.
Another way is to print out the characters, both the original ttf and the optimized .otf, using a laser printer, at, say, 12 point (or whatever size will typically be used). Shuffle the paper & go home. Come in the next day, look only at the paper, and see if you can tell them apart.
We use to do this with loudspeakers, after raunchy stereo salesmen would try & tell us how much "better" the more profitable speaker system was. The "we" here is a couple recording engineers, who had far better ears than the salesman.
So the parallel for you, if you can't tell the glyphs apart, when used as they will be used, would be to get a type designer to critique the differences -- again, as used, not at 256 points on the screen, overlayed.
(Loudspeakers? I use Magneplaners. There are better choices if you're into rock 'n roll with a lot of bass... Otherwise, plan on a lot more money...)
