FontLab to Fontographer

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Michael Clark
Michael Clark Posts: 138
edited June 2012 in Type Design Software
What is the cleanest translation method from FL to Fontographer. The less additional points the better.

Michael

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  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,752
    Fontographer can read .vfb since 5.0.
  • Michael Clark
    Michael Clark Posts: 138
    I have both in v5 but when I open a FL file in Fontographer it gets squirrel-ly. Additional points are added.

    Is there something in the preferences I should change.
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,752
    I don't know. I don't actually use FOG 5. I keep it around in case I need it.

    Maybe ask on the FontLab and/or Fontographer user forums?
  • Michael Clark
    Michael Clark Posts: 138
    I reloaded Fontographer and now it seems to be working fine.

    Thanks Mark.
  • Michael Clark
    Michael Clark Posts: 138
    Now how about in reverse?
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,752
    FOG 5 can also save .vfb.
  • Bob Trogman
    Bob Trogman Posts: 2
    I installed Lion and then had to upgrade my FOG. All the fonts on hard drive and backup became FOG fonts including the .otf fonts.
    It took 3 days of help without results and then one of the programmers said to hit the file info and up came the name of the font and asked what software you want it to appear. I selected the Font Book and all the problems were solved.

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