RE: OT: looking for a font designer

2014-01-22 Thread David Artman
FontCreator is a LOT cheaper than contracting a font designer, if you already have the art and just need it put into a font file. (It's tantamount to hiring an architect just to do drafting... or hiring a technical writer just to copy paste between two applications. ;) )DIY, I sayDavid

Re: OT: looking for a font designer

2014-01-22 Thread Robert Lauriston
Why reinvent the wheel? There are fonts that have the standard ANSI Z535 exclamation point in triangle symbol at U+26A0: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/26a0/fontsupport.htm Do you need to worry about IEEE, ANSI, or OSHA standards? Generally, Warning is reserved for things that can

Re: OT: looking for a font designer

2014-01-20 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi David I'm afraid it's not that simple. I have already tested some font editors, including FontCreator, Fontographer, FontForge and TypeTool and I saw that the fill and/or stroke of some objects is not always preserved when the EPS is imported into these editors. Moreover, the (technical)