fontographer at Yahoo! Groups

Re: New file uploaded to fontographer

a.johnych — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:46:26 GMT

Michael, The file is identical to the one you can find on Fontlab forum . Johnych

Re: New file uploaded to fontographer

Michael — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:18:06 GMT

I was nervous about this but checked and see that the poster has been a member of the group since 2006. I use a Mac. I have no idea whether the software which

New file uploaded to fontographer

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:35:37 GMT

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the fontographer group. File :

Re: Greetings from Andrew Meit

Michael Everson — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:49:25 GMT

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.

Greetings from Andrew Meit

meitnik — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:38:36 GMT

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

Re: How to resize a font?

Michael Everson — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:28:36 GMT

... 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

Re: How to resize a font?

johnroshell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:25:35 GMT

Use Element > Transform (or command \ ), select "Basepoint" and "Scale uniformly" then choose a percentage. I'd select one character and experiment to find the

How to resize a font?

Michael Everson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:13:53 GMT

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

Re: The ease and beauty of drawing in Fontographer

johnroshell — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:15:28 GMT

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

Re: The ease and beauty of drawing in Fontographer

grylonergan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:03:58 GMT

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

Re: The ease and beauty of drawing in Fontographer

Fox Creek Printing — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:42:39 GMT

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

Re: The ease and beauty of drawing in Fontographer

Michael Everson — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:06:38 GMT

... 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

Re: The ease and beauty of drawing in Fontographer

Fox Creek Printing — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:40:48 GMT

Fontographer is gone. FontLab ate it up. ... p: 864-233-8646 www.foxcreekprinting.com

The ease and beauty of drawing in Fontographer

grylonergan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:05:17 GMT

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

Names lists in Fog and in FL

Michael Everson — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:02:37 GMT

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