Ted Download the "technotes collection" at FontLab http://www.pyrus.com/Fontographer/Fontographer/Fontographer-Support-and-Future/ Your answer to everything...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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,...
... 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...
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. ...
... 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....
... 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...
... 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 *...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This is a quiet list, but I thought I would just send a message out to see if there were any bounces or anything. Also Cyril said he doesn't get mail... maybe...
I think this list is so quiet because Fontographer is such a great program, we hardly ever have trouble using it! :) Contrast that with the FontLab list, which...
Is anyone still here? After a very long time of not doing much with Fontographer, I recently was working on revising some fonts and I cannot get the hyphen to...
... Yes! ... I always draw in Fontographer, but I process my fonts in Fontlab. There are indeed some problems with hyphens that come up there because of...
Hi, I was annoyed by an extremely old bug yesterday ;-) Cyril! Are you here? When you paste wide artwork from e.g. FreeHand, (a process that is *much* more...
... This resulted from Microsoft "fixing" a bug in Word by renumbering the hyphen character. Nice of them, huh? The hyphen in Fontographer is Unicode #00AD,...
