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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Somehow I forgot RoboFog, the customized version of Fontographer 3.5 that changed type design forever by integrating Python, later spawning RoboFab then RoboFont.1 -
Re: Update from Business Letters
Hey Matthew! 👋 Very sorry to hear of the long Covid, wishing you the best of health. I thoroughly recommend Matthew to anyone thinking of upping their type business, he's a superb coach, and a …2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Microsoft VTT was based on Sampo Kaasila's Visual TypeMan and/or Visual StingRay, if I recall correctly.2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
@"John Hudson" one of these? From this blog post: https://medium.com/@fpeulrich/a-brief-overview-of-developments-in-digital-type-design-561d9e63a122 I feel like my odds of finding one in wo…2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
My workflow: I was working as a graphic designer at the time, with font making an emerging side gig. My software environment comprised Fontographer, for making fonts—and, for testing them, which was …3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Ares Fontmonger was a po-man's Fontographer. They also made Font Chameleon, a sort of early MM implementation that Adobe bought to remove from the market. There was also a tool named Softy.2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
In the early nineties on the Mac, besides Fontographer, there was Letraset's Font Studio and URW's Ikarus M. I used the first two but don't know much about Ikarus M. I know some others…3 -
Re: Is there a tool for creating VF animated images?
While Adobe AE doesn't support variable yet, there's a plug-in called Varifont that sort-of does the trick. I found some other tools, but they were Mac only. As far as I know, that's t…2 -
Re: Status of Arabic text support in InDesign
Thanks, that is what I suspected. For my example, applying the world-ready composer would probably have been enough to avoid the error without having to switch to the MENA edition. Would it be fair t…1 -
Re: Fontlab export OTF problems (missing letters and styles)
The quicker solution is to open a ticket in our support system:https://support.fontlab.com/support/tickets/new You can securely attach the file with problems.1
