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Re: Font Question

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Friday, March 23, 2001, 23:06
Bac in the day I was a Mac man (I wish I still was!) I made fonts
Devanagari and Old Cyrillic and Glagolitic on the Mac, using ResEdit. It
just like drawing a picture in MacPaint...you just open the resource fork
of one font you already have and change the images...


On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, The Gray Wizard wrote:

> I use Fontographer which I bought several years ago. Don't know if its > available for the Mac and can't recall how much it cost. I remember trying > a shareware program who's name escapes me at the moment ( a senior moment I > suppose). It was cheap, but I gave up on it after trying to figure how it > worked. The docs were poor to nonexistent. Fontographer worked quite well > for me and I was able to create the tal eglar (amman iar's native script) > fairly easily. > > David > > David E Bell > The Gray Wizard > www.graywizard.net > > Wisdom begins in wonder > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On > > Behalf Of David Peterson > > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:42 PM > > To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU > > Subject: Font Question > > > > > > How do you guys create your own fonts for your languages? Or do you? > > The only way I've been able to find is to download the demo of > > Fontlab (for > > Mac), which costs $399 (a lot for me), and, since you can't save anything, > > buy Typetool, which costs $99, and then simply design the fonts on Fontlab > > and save them on Typetool. Is there any affordable way to make fonts? I > > always have a feeling that there's a free way to do anything, yet this... > > And, of course, if I'm talking to people using computers named after > > castrated men, then I'll probably get no help at all, unless you > > guys know of > > Macish troubles... > > > > -Jenesis > > >
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