http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/ Fontographer Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:49:25 GMT Michael Everson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/98 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/98 Why aren't you using real Unicode encoding? I helped to add dozens of medievalist characters. See http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA720.pdf for instance. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:38:36 GMT meitnik http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/97 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/97 Hello, I am seeking tutorials on creating custom unicode encodings for medieval latin fonts. I have a font which has 290 char slots but has a non-standard Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:28:36 GMT Michael Everson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/96 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/96 ... John, In the end this is what I did... I could not find a good way to do it in FontLab (not any response from the FontLab forum on the query) but Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:25:35 GMT johnroshell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/95 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/95 Use Element > Transform (or command \ ), select "Basepoint" and "Scale uniformly" then choose a percentage. I'd select one character and experiment to find the Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:13:53 GMT Michael Everson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/94 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/94 I'm drawing a font in Fontographer, but processing it with FontLab. I have a font metrics problem, and I am not sure what the right way to fix it is. The Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:15:28 GMT johnroshell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/93 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/93 I work exactly the same way! I don't think I could draw in fontlab if my life depended on it. That program is a nightmare. Would be nice if the fontlab guys Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:03:58 GMT grylonergan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/92 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/92 I spoke yesterday with Gerry Leonidis whos runs the Type Design course at Reading University for the last 10 years. His pupils first use pencil and paper for Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:42:39 GMT Fox Creek Printing http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/91 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/91 I've got FontLab--it's great, but Fontographer doesn't really exist, right? So there won't be improvements to that software--I thought that was the email's Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:06:38 GMT Michael Everson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/90 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/90 ... Not at all true! FontLab bought it. And they've made an update available (for Mac anyway) and I use it all the time. I agree with Gary... Fontographer's Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:40:48 GMT Fox Creek Printing http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/89 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/89 Fontographer is gone. FontLab ate it up. ... p: 864-233-8646 www.foxcreekprinting.com Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:05:17 GMT grylonergan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/88 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/88 I haven't used Fontographer in years but yesterday I opened an old font file in Fontographer 4 in Classic and did some drawing. Compared to illustrator and Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:02:37 GMT Michael Everson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/87 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/87 One of the things that really bugs me is how the names list in Fontographer and the names list in FontLab have minor differences. I always use Fontographer to Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:29:49 GMT johnroshell http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/86 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/86 It's usually right on top of the left sidebearing, in which case, click there and drag to the right to adjust it. Or it's way, way offscreen to the right, in Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:24:23 GMT typeprof1 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/85 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/85 Hey All, I am very new to Fontographer, so this may be a very elementary question. I have been using Chank Diesel's online font tutorial to get started. He Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:31:33 GMT Michael Everson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/84 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fontographer/message/84 ... Do you know which ones? I suppose I'd need to see your Fog file. ... One option is to upgrade and replace the documents, but let's not go there now. ...