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Re: USB microscope recommendations for books
I gambled about $40 on a Plugable brand USB microscope, and flush against the page it’s good enough to capture ten point or so. It comes with a rudimentary gooseneck stand, so inches away it can capt…4 -
Converting Obscure Font Format into TTF
Hello. Right away, the ask is: Is there a way to convert this to a TrueType font? Not asking for free, but asking. Mark Simonson thought I should try to ask my question here--not sure if this is the …1 -
Re: v1 Indic shapers
We use another script to check the status:if (app.textPreferences.shapeIndicAndLatinWithHarbuzz == true) {<br> alert("Harfbuzz is currently ENABLED");<br>}<br> else {<b…1 -
Re: Any thoughts about Creative Fabrica?
@"Ray Larabie" I have declined all incoming invitations to join them for several reasons: 1. A new platforms like Creative Fabrica, Master Bundles and others are don't specialize on type di…5 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Good City Modern. I'd forgotten about that. The FOG demo font. (In case it's not obvious, Good City = Gutenberg.)3 -
Re: Inferior characters
I favour subs, and really only include sinf (pointing at the subs lookup) because it wasn't formally deprecated.4 -
Re: Inferior characters
* We have Latin lowercase superscript a–z completely encoded (although scattered over several places) * We have most of Cyrillic lowercase superscript and subscripts encoded, mainly in the 1E030 bloc…2 -
Re: Embedding in public PDF specimen (outline or not outline text)?
We don't do PDF samples anymore, but on our website only one Roman and one Italic style per package is shown with its full character set and OpenType features, e.g. https://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/p…2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Froyo Tam would be a great person to ask about this. She’s been researching early eighties digital fonts, collecting hardware and software, creating her own fonts, and distributing her fonts on flopp…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
Definitely have to be a very specific type of nerd to be excited about this, but I did happen to find Fontographer 4 on eBay for a reasonable price. Just arrived this afternoon, and seems to run just…3
