Re: writing system
From: | Pipian <pipian@...> |
Date: | Saturday, January 8, 2005, 0:06 |
Andrew Nowicki wrote:
> <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
>
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>>a few times I've tried to create a goodwriting for
>>my conlang but nothingwich seems as esthetic than
>>other witings I've already seen
>
>
> You need a cheap CAD program to make perfect
> looking glyphs and a decent font creating program.
> The High-Logic font program is good enough and it
> is a shareware that you can use free of charge for
> one month.
>
> The CAD program will make perfect glyphs and it
> will store these glyphs as large raster files,
> preferably in GIF format. The font program will
> transform the GIF files into a font file.
>
>
>
I personally use fontforge, but you kinda need to either have cygwin or
linux on your machine, as it requires X Windows. For the most part it's
very nice, and supports OpenType Tables, which most other cheap or free
font creators cannot work with.
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