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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...
2 Aug 18, 2009
4:49 pm

Michael Everson
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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...
3 Jun 27, 2009
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Michael Everson
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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...
6 Jan 15, 2009
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johnroshell
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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...
1 Jun 8, 2008
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Michael Everson
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Hey All, I am very new to Fontographer, so this may be a very elementary question. I have been using Chank Diesel's online font tutorial to get started. He...
2 Apr 2, 2008
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... -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com...
6 Mar 7, 2008
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Michael Everson
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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...
2 Jan 29, 2008
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Michael Everson
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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...
6 Jan 18, 2008
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Michael Everson
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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...
3 Oct 19, 2006
4:17 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...
5 Jul 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...
7 Jul 1, 2006
8:25 pm

Michael Everson
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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,...
4 Jun 22, 2006
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Luc[as] de Groot
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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...
3 May 12, 2006
1:22 pm

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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...
1 May 11, 2006
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Christopher Cowan
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Computer Arts magazine had a short review of Fontographer 4.7.2 you can find it online at...
1 Apr 8, 2006
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Christopher Cowan
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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 ...
3 Apr 5, 2006
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Gerald Lange
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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,...
1 Mar 26, 2006
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Michael Everson
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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...
1 Mar 17, 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,...
3 Mar 10, 2006
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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 ...
1 Feb 26, 2006
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Gerald Lange
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I created a font with FOG and I get a warning that it may be corrupt and that there may be a substitution with courier. My font prints fine. I was reading that...
3 Jan 30, 2006
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tedpet5
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I have not used the new OS-X version of Fontographer much yet--it has some problems that have kept me on the old classic version. The most important one for...
6 Jan 29, 2006
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tedpet5
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Can anyone advise, please? I'm currently using an old version of FOG 4.0 on a classic Mac running 8.0. Is there a way to make changes to a font without going...
5 Jan 25, 2006
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Walczak Signs
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I have noticed one glitchy area in FOG for OSX -- the Metrics window. The period character cannot be typed into the window, and it also won't let me copy and...
6 Jan 19, 2006
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Michael Everson
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Is this a Windoze or MAC version??? Rickey Stein...
2 Jan 14, 2006
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Robert_Schenk
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Hello and happy new year for all as you require to mention something about my self here a few about me Font Design I'd created many new typefaces (Fonts) in...
2 Jan 14, 2006
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I asked for the revision to 4.7.1 and they gave me 4.7.2, so they must be almost ready for that version. I inadvertently crashed it. I selected all my...
4 Jan 13, 2006
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patherto
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I really haven't been following what's happening with FL's acquisition of FOG. Have they done anything yet or what are their plans. I have not been able to...
2 Jan 7, 2006
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Michael Everson
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Yes, my wife and children would be upset to hear it, but I love this program. I've been using it since 1992 to create fonts, primarily for the purpose of...
1 Jan 6, 2006
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johnroshell
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I have been using FOG for a long time, but only a few years ago got down to working on my own typefaces. Then along came OS X and I got frustrated, and bought...
1 Jan 6, 2006
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