Font Software: (Was: Re: on second thought... (posted at Joshua Shinavier's request))

>> There's a Valdyan font in existence, but that's also being reworked
>> (my husband's boss bought him a new font editor :-) When we get a
>> scanner, I intend to do a scan of a page of manuscript of "Grandpa
>> and the Dragon" and put that on the web page with the text.
>
>I started on two fonts for Aroven, but I still need a font editor to
convert
>the images I scanned.  I've tried some of the shareware programs but they
>didn't work on my system -- and of course Fontographer costs something like
>$300 -- absurd, at least for someone who wants to make only a couple of
fonts
>just for the fun of it.  I might resort to a "warez" source I know of for
>Fontographer
How about "Softy"?  This shareware package was discussed on Conlang some
time ago.  I downloaded it and played with it, but I confess I haven't used
it much so I'm not able to give an unqualified endorsement.  The homepage
is at:

http://home.iclweb.com/icl1/d.w.emmett/

Alternatively, in the past I've used a package called "Type Designer" which
at the time cost US$119.  I don't have any purchase info on that one, but I
suspect a search of the web would turn something up.  The original
publisher is a German company whose name I don't remember, but there is a
US reseller.  Type Designer is what I used to make the Aluric Font, which I
actually need to revisit and clean up.

Tony Harris
Community College of Vermont
tony.harris@ccvtest.ccv.vsc.edu