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Font creation

I don’t know if any of you Smoking Drum veterans out there are wondering – but just in case you are I thought it would be polite to at least make some sort of explanation – about the state of any new font creations.

Well the answer boils down to this – I have no font creation software any more. I previously used Fontographer but it doesn’t work in Classic and I cannot boot my Mac into OS 9. So I’m buggered basically. The only font creation tool out there which appears to be current and work with OS X is FontLab which is expensive enough that I cannot justify purchasing it.

So, I don’t honestly know what the situation is regarding new font creation. If I can find a tool which I can afford then hopefully production will start up again. I will keep you posted, for sure.

John

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 29th, 2004 at 8:46 am and is filed under Fonts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

2 Responses to “Font creation”

  1. Ben Says:
    February 7th, 2004 at 6:07 am

    FYI…Fontographer DOES work in Classic. You just have to install the Non-FPU version from your install disk!

  2. Smokingdrum Says:
    February 8th, 2004 at 7:45 am

    I really am very grateful for that information Ben! Having really thought I had packed up my font creation for good I am so pleased to be able to install and run Fontographer, even if it is a little outdated.

    Thanks again!

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