... 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...
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imtonda
Jun 22, 2006 2:30 pm
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. ...
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Luc[as] de Groot
fontmachine
Jun 22, 2006 2:47 pm
... 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....
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cyril_at_fontlab
cyril_at_fon...
Jun 22, 2006 4:24 pm
... 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...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jun 22, 2006 4:46 pm
... 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 *...
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Cyril Murzin
cyril_at_fon...
Jun 26, 2006 1:14 pm
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...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jun 26, 2006 3:02 pm
... Ouch. Ought to have renumbered it 4.7.4 perhaps? Anyway thanks for the heads-up! -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jul 1, 2006 8:25 pm
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....
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imtonda
Jul 10, 2006 2:27 am
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...
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johnroshell
Jul 10, 2006 10:21 pm
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...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jul 11, 2006 10:07 pm
... It could be. but... ... You should get the free upgrade tpo 4.7.3. -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com...
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Ahmed Safwat
ahmedsafwat44
Jul 12, 2006 12:56 am
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...
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imtonda
Jul 12, 2006 3:26 am
Maybe I'll try bitmaps instead of vector art, but I don't want to lose any quality. Thanks for your advice. Cheers, Tonda...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Oct 18, 2006 2:02 pm
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...
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cyril_at_fontlab
cyril_at_fon...
Oct 18, 2006 3:55 pm
... it works. seems the mail forwarding faults were sporadic. best regards, Cyril...
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johnroshell
Oct 19, 2006 4:17 pm
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...
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Robert_Schenk
Jan 16, 2008 9:09 pm
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...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jan 17, 2008 8:39 pm
... 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...
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johnroshell
Jan 18, 2008 1:46 am
... 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,...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jan 18, 2008 10:09 am
Don't you have to add a character name? I find when I open a Fog-generated file in FLStudio 002D and 2010 are both highlighted red. The way to fix that is to...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jan 27, 2008 11:37 am
I was one of the people who helped the Romanian Standards Body to add 0218, 0219, 021A, 021B to the standard. Let's review the argument. 015E, 015F, 0162, 0163...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jan 29, 2008 9:52 am
... The glyph names in Fontographer are given internally in its STR#400. It is not difficult to either edit this, or to leave it alone, renumbering it as...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Mar 3, 2008 9:58 am
... -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com...
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Raymond Weisling
firemountain_id
Mar 4, 2008 1:59 am
... I was going to lurk for a bit here, but it seems very quiet, so I'll pop up and awaken the crew... First, I use FOG 4.1.5 on an older Mac because the font...
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johnroshell
Mar 4, 2008 4:49 pm
... Hi, Raymond. Welcome aboard! ... Pretty much everything you see on the keyboard is fair game for windows and macs. Are all of those characters used up in...
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Raymond Weisling
firemountain_id
Mar 7, 2008 3:19 am
... Actually the lower 95 accessible characters are all used but 1, but in the code space above 128 only 38 are used. But the main problem is choosing an...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Mar 7, 2008 9:50 am
... Interesting. I'd like to see it. I recently prepared a proposal to encode Javanese script. When I was in Java we found that unlike the Balinese they did...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Mar 7, 2008 11:31 am
... 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. ... ...
