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Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
One big limitation of FontStudio is that it was Mac-only and could only export Macintosh PS or TT fonts. Microsoft MS-DOS/Windows nor any other platform is mentioned in the manual. In fact, the curre…2 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
I just remembered something peculiar about FontStudio. It had two separate versions, an FPU and a non-FPU version. I owned a PowerBook Duo at the time, which meant that I had to keep both versions in…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
@"Paul van der Laan" wrote: Following the release of Fontographer, Altsys developed a program called Masterpiece, which was licensed by Aldus, renamed FreeHand, and released in 1988. Fontog…3 -
Re: 80s / 90s font production software and workflow?
One other thing about Fontographer: The early versions could only make Type 3 fonts, which were really equivalent to EPS (Embedded PostScript) for each glyph. Technically, this meant that you could d…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 here used it. …3
