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...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jun 8, 2008 6:02 pm
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...
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grylonergan
Jan 14, 2009 2:05 pm
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...
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Fox Creek Printing
dyegang
Jan 14, 2009 2:40 pm
Fontographer is gone. FontLab ate it up. ... p: 864-233-8646 www.foxcreekprinting.com...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jan 14, 2009 4:06 pm
... 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...
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Fox Creek Printing
dyegang
Jan 14, 2009 4:42 pm
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...
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grylonergan
Jan 15, 2009 12:03 pm
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...
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johnroshell
Jan 15, 2009 4:15 pm
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...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jun 23, 2009 1:13 pm
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...
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johnroshell
Jun 24, 2009 5:25 pm
Use Element > Transform (or command \ ), select "Basepoint" and "Scale uniformly" then choose a percentage. I'd select one character and experiment to find the...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Jun 27, 2009 3:28 pm
... 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...
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meitnik
Aug 18, 2009 4:38 pm
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...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Aug 18, 2009 4:49 pm
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. ...
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fontographer@yahoogro...
Dec 11, 2009 1:35 pm
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 :...
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Michael
evertype
Dec 11, 2009 2:18 pm
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...
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a.johnych
Dec 11, 2009 2:46 pm
Michael, The file is identical to the one you can find on Fontlab forum <http://forum.fontlab.com/> . Johnych...
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Alex
a.johnych
Jun 17, 2010 10:34 am
On June 17, 2010, Fontlab Ltd. has released Fontographer 5.0 For more information, please consult the F ...
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Michael
evertype
Jun 17, 2010 11:06 am
Great news!...
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johnroshell
Jun 30, 2010 7:49 pm
Indeed! I've been using it for a couple of days, and so far, I LOVE it. They've made EXACTLY the improvements it needed, and didn't mess with it otherwise....
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Alex
a.johnych
Jul 12, 2011 4:19 pm
On July 9, 2011, Fontlab Ltd. has released Fontographer 5.1 update.For more information, please consult the press release ...
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johnroshell
Aug 8, 2011 4:57 pm
Hi all, I have tried all the font encoding options available in FOG 5.1, but cannot find the following characters: Czech: Ch Hungarian: Cs Dz Dzs Gy Zs ...
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Michael Everson
evertype
Aug 8, 2011 9:32 pm
... These are not "characters". They are "letters" realized by digraphs made up of the characters C, D, G, H, J, L, N, S, Y, Z, and Ž. Michael Everson *...
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David Bergsland
davidbergsland
Sep 27, 2011 8:31 pm
Hello, I just joined the list. I've been writing a book on fontographer called, "Practical Font Design for Graphic Designers: Fontographer 5.1" It's presently...
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David Bergsland
davidbergsland
Sep 27, 2011 8:56 pm
Hi, A few days back, I put up a poll of the Fontographer forum at FontLab. For my book, I'm curious, do you use FontLab and Fontographer? Only FOG. Or several...
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David Bergsland
davidbergsland
Sep 29, 2011 3:26 pm
I've decided to extend my low-cost proofing release until at least November 1, 2011 My issues are with Fog 5.1's auto spacing abilities. I was going to just...
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Padma Binti
padmaandj...
Jan 6, 2012 5:01 pm
Hello Fontographers! I got a contract to to 30 fonts and I'm re-learning Fontographer (using 5.0) after 20 years. It's going really great except I'm having ONE...
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padmaandj@...
padmaandj...
Jan 6, 2012 5:04 pm
Hello Fontographers! I got a contract to to 30 fonts and I'm re-learning Fontographer (using 5.0) after 20 years. It's going really great except I'm having ONE...
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fontmachine
Jan 6, 2012 5:35 pm
Hello, draw a rectangle as high as the highest glyph, and copy this along anytime you paste something in Fontographer. I would make lines of glyphs in...
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chiwokvisz
Apr 17, 2012 9:47 pm
When I go: File - Import - Bitmaps... than a new windows pops up, and I should pick a bitmap. I made all kind onf bitmaps but none can be selected. Every one...
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Michael
evertype
Jul 17, 2012 9:58 am
This was a known bug which has been fixed with the recent update....
