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For all who may be interested: I have posted a font modification sequence for Fontographer 4.7x (Mac OS 10.3-10.4x) at Type Road ...
Gerald Lange
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Feb 26, 2006
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Hi, I'm actually making a script font in fontographer 4 (for OsX). I encounter a problem thaht I can't go through. My characters have big ascents and descents,...
Jean Smith
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Mar 9, 2006
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I'm not sure I can help you, as I am in the process of converting my work station from OS 8 to OS X. Is the problem with overlapping asents and decents as...
kazclawd
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Mar 9, 2006
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Thanks for your message kazclawd I don't think my file corrupt (I've import all my letters in a new file and it's always the same). The way my font overlap is...
calicalikyo
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Mar 10, 2006
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There was some discussion of using Style Merger to create font families in an earlier thread ("I crashed it", thread begun Jan. 11, 2006). I think the question...
gowanus304
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Mar 17, 2006
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I have created a set of fonts on the mac: IUltra-Thin IUltra-ThinItalic IUltra-Regular IUltra-RegularItalic IUltra-Medium IUltra-MediumItalic IUltra-Bold ...
tedpet5
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Mar 19, 2006
11:46 pm
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I don't know. I use Fontographer to draw in, but I process fonts with FontLab. Your problem may have something to do with the complicated way that fontnames...
Michael Everson
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Mar 26, 2006
1:02 pm
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I only just found out about this; it's been available since January. I haven't got mine yet. I hope it fixes a few things that have been bugging me. If not,...
Michael Everson
evertype
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Mar 26, 2006
1:04 pm
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Ted Download the "technotes collection" at FontLab http://www.pyrus.com/Fontographer/Fontographer/Fontographer-Support-and-Future/ Your answer to everything...
Gerald Lange
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Apr 5, 2006
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Computer Arts magazine had a short review of Fontographer 4.7.2 you can find it online at...
Christopher Cowan
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Apr 8, 2006
10:51 am
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I just installed Fontographer for Mac OSX 4.6. I installed the FOG updater. I opened an old FOG file and edited it. Then I tried to Save the file. This is the...
patherto0
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May 10, 2006
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... It sounds like you may have tried to save the file outside of your home directory. Mac OS X is based on Unix and has users who have certain restrictions on...
Christopher Cowan
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May 11, 2006
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... This means you have not enough rights to edit the file. In Mac OS X each file belongs to some user in a multiuser environment. If you are the only user on...
a.johnych
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May 12, 2006
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... I have a backup program (Carbon Copy Cloner) that repairs permissions each night before it backs up data. There is a number of users on this Mac but I am...
patherto0
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May 12, 2006
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Has anyone else had problems importing .ttf fonts with Fog 4.7 for Mac? I find they get imported with the character widths very damaged. My workaround is to...
Michael Everson
evertype
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Jun 20, 2006
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... Michael, Yes, there is indeed a problem. I just wonder why nobody noticed this before....
a.johnych
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Jun 21, 2006
10:42 am
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I'm having a problem figuring out what the key strokes are for the top row of characters in the keyboard map. Fontographer states they are: "C-a, C-b, C-c,...
imtonda
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Jun 21, 2006
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... No, these control characters are not supposed to work. Some of them worked sometimes in some apps (BBEdit in OS9), and they might be clicked in from the...
Luc[as] de Groot
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Jun 22, 2006
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Okay, that makes sense. But can you only access them from the glyph palette? I'm building a foreign language font and these characters will be used often. ...
imtonda
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Jun 22, 2006
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... Yes, I think so. Maybe just a few could be typed in some situations. ... Either you make old fashined 8-bit PS fonts and stick to existing encodings, (e.g....
Luc[as] de Groot
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Jun 22, 2006
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... You have to update your Fontographer to recent version. It's 4.7.3 that available at our site from April. Cyril PS1. please, point the proper software...
cyril_at_fontlab
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Jun 22, 2006
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... I have 4.7.3 and I have this problem. I just verified that it is 4.7.3. ... OK. ... Your settings may not be right. I'll look at them. -- Michael Everson *...
Michael Everson
evertype
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Jun 22, 2006
4:46 pm
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Hello Michael, ... As far as I remember the installer of Fontographer 4.7.3 have been re-uploaded shortly after the its first issue. One of differences was the...
Cyril Murzin
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Jun 26, 2006
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... Ouch. Ought to have renumbered it 4.7.4 perhaps? Anyway thanks for the heads-up! -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com...
Michael Everson
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Jun 26, 2006
3:02 pm
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I've written to FontLab and also tried to get the 4.7.3-bis update through the FontLab site but have had no response. It's frustrating....
Michael Everson
evertype
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Jul 1, 2006
8:25 pm
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I'm producing a handwritten font, and it is redrawing very slowly; it will take one to two minutes to redraw if I resize type or zoom in/out. This happens in...
imtonda
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Jul 10, 2006
2:27 am
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Most likely, yes. Use Element > Clean Up Paths (command-shift-c) and you should see a vast improvement. A while back I created an online tutorial on creating...
johnroshell
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Jul 10, 2006
10:21 pm
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... It could be. but... ... You should get the free upgrade tpo 4.7.3. -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com...
Michael Everson
evertype
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Jul 11, 2006
10:07 pm
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Dear Tonda I Think that could be due to the big number of thepoints you have on your hand writen path of your glyphs You may use one command named simplify...
Ahmed Safwat
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Jul 12, 2006
12:56 am
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Maybe I'll try bitmaps instead of vector art, but I don't want to lose any quality. Thanks for your advice. Cheers, Tonda...
imtonda
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