Re: [Finale] Making Fonts

2005-11-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Nov 26, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Simon Troup wrote: I've been looking at Fontographer and FontLab recently, it seems MacroMedia sold Fontographer on to FontLab and they've released it for OSX. Does anyone have any practical experience of the two, and offer some advice on their relative merits? Is

Re: [Finale] Making Fonts

2005-11-27 Thread Eric Dussault
Fontlab has become the standard in the industry I think, because Fontographer, as mature as it was, stopped developping their tool. OpenType and new technologies made it obsolete in a certain way. The new version of Fontographer looks on sceen as an OS 9 application, as far as display is

Re: [Finale] Making Fonts

2005-11-27 Thread Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account
Simon Troup wrote: I've been looking at Fontographer and FontLab recently, it seems MacroMedia sold Fontographer on to FontLab and they've released it for OSX. Does anyone have any practical experience of the two, and offer some advice on their relative merits? Is FontLab just for serious font

Re: [Finale] Making Fonts

2005-11-27 Thread Marek Tabisz
I've been looking at Fontographer and FontLab recently, it seems MacroMedia sold Fontographer on to FontLab and they've released it for OSX. Does anyone have any practical experience of the two, and offer some advice on their relative merits? Is FontLab just for serious font geeks? Is it

[Finale] Making Fonts

2005-11-26 Thread Simon Troup
I've been looking at Fontographer and FontLab recently, it seems MacroMedia sold Fontographer on to FontLab and they've released it for OSX. Does anyone have any practical experience of the two, and offer some advice on their relative merits? Is FontLab just for serious font geeks? Is it worth the