Aha! Thanks, that helps a good bit. (I'll be reading more in the manual this week.) I'll check for Comixology. :) Thanks. I think I'm over the initial shock of...
... Ben -- It's possible to rename these characters -- select any of the ** glyphs, then choose Element > selection info (command I). I use this to make...
... No fix for this except to add an opentype feature file where you can remember where the characters are. I wrote about a procedure in my book. Other than...
By the way, I love the great font work from Comicraft and Blambot both. Really neat stuff! (Yes, I've bought from both sites and from MyFonts.com.) I began...
Howdy! Perhaps it's just because the program works so dang well? :D I'm still getting these, and using Fontographer almost daily. Happy to answer any...
Hi Fontographer group. Is there some other handy group or forum for Fontographer (and FontLab) users to help each other and interact? The FontLab Forum is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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 *...
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 ...
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....
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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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. ...
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...
... 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...
Use Element > Transform (or command \ ), select "Basepoint" and "Scale uniformly" then choose a percentage. I'd select one character and experiment to find the...
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...
