Re: Font Question

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, David Peterson wrote:

>     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...
>
Making fonts from scratch is a lot of work. I use Scanfont, also
by Pyrus, which let you draw the glyphs on paper, scan them and
generate outlines. I have had it for years, and I've used it less
that I would have liked because it's a Windows app. Still, I seem to
remember that they planned a Mac release.

There are now starting to become available some open source Truetype or
Postscript font editors, although they are all extremely buggy, can't
handle large fonts and are idiosyncratic in every way. But you could
try those, if you install LinuxPPC and compile them from scratch...



Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org