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Re: How to best give access to special characters in a font
When I was adapting Canada150 to the now bankrupt Mars One project we needed something that could fall back to readable text for safety reasons. The project (Canada1500 Public Domain) required severa…5 -
Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?
A good font name resource: all the world's town/city names. You can even combine half of one and half of another for a zillion possibilities. That alone will prevent font name shortages for at l…5 -
Re: Macro for Fontlab for automatic assigning custom Unicode values
You don't need a macro for that if you know the names. These instructions are for Fontlab 5. Go to your shared/mapping folder and open some of the .nam files in a text editor to see how they wor…4 -
Re: The Future of Font Naming: is it still unethical to use the same font name?
Sometimes trashy free fonts later get upgraded to not-so-trashy commercial fonts. Case in point: the original Steelfish was barely usable and is now not-too-bad and one of my best sellers. So if some…10 -
Re: FontLab VI Tutorials?
@"Thomas Phinney" I meant full font validation like MS Font Validator or the one in FontCreator. I wasn't sure if that sort of feature was part of the newer FontLab apps.1
