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I'm not amused, especially since I preferred FontLab to other font editors.

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Windows users don't have to deal with this, even though most typographers and font designers work on Macs. The website says that there will eventually be an Intel binary, but it hasn't materialised yet, even though it was purportedly to be released in "July 2011." It's September-where is it? FontLab is still, even after five years of Intel Macs, not a universal binary, and therefore cannot run on Apple's most recent OS. This is like Adobe not updating Photoshop for five years, even when many people rely on it.Įven Glyphs, which I consider overpriced as it is, is around $400 less than your offering, and it's Intel-compatible.

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The price is bad, but the fact that you cannot be bothered to update your software to run on recent Macs natively shows a gross lack of concern for your customers, especially considering FontLab's widespread use in typeface design. You charge nearly $700 for a product that is not a universal binary. To recreate the logotype, youll need to kern per letter and adjust font size.

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I'd like to know if I'll still be young enough to use it so I know whether to start saving now.įontLab, *please* edit your software. Birdfont is a free font editor which lets you create vector graphics and. It would certainly be nice if Fontlab could provide a timetable for the release of version 6 which would narrow it down to a particular year, at least. So, high marks for features and capabilities, but so-so to lousy everywhere else.

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The manual has a horrendous amount of material to cover and doesn't do it in a very comprehensible way. More than about 3 seconds of the pinwheel and I know it's going bye-bye.įortunately the app starts up quickly and saves rapidly, as well as saving a backup and having an autosave. There are also too many circumstances when instead of reporting an error of some kind, it simply crashes.

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However, under 10.6.8 on my Mac Pro at least, it is absolutely riddled with peculiar behaviors and bugs which have to be negotiated like a minefield.

It's loaded with redundancies in ways of doing the same thing and customization, though I hesitate to call that bad (if they all worked properly). The UI could definitely be made easier to use and in some cases is quite bewildering. Having had the chance to actually use the software fairly extensively, I can actually rate it at last.įontlab Studio's complexity and breadth are amazing.

FontLab now supports color and variability, so you can explore these new possibilities and expand your creative reach. kern-dump - Scripts for working with and analyzing kerning information (ATypI 2013). But they reconsidered and streamlined every function.įontLab VI also gives you groundbreaking new drawing tools and responsive contour operations to make your design process easier and more efficient, whether you’re an expert or a beginner. FontLab brought in the best of their classic apps, FontLab Studio and Fontographer, including many familiar keyboard FontLab shortcuts. It is an all-around font editor, but also supports data interchange with other font creation tools, making it easy to integrate into your existing workflows. I've studied and been drawing chrome and water since before there were computers.With FontLab (was FontLab Studio), you can create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint, and export desktop, web, color, and variable fonts.

If you add these sort of specular reflections sparingly, you might find the text pops out at you a little more and will get you wet.įile's attached, and again, pardon me for crashing your tutorial, Frances. I didn't go get the typeface you recommended, so I did your tutorial by hand and no, the text obviously isn't editable. Easy-to-remember shortcuts Kerning View To Do Accurate Design Kerning View to help you do more accurate glyphs design, all you need is entering some text you want to kern, and then click on the text to choose two glyphs, and then set a kerning value. At the point at which the lighting source (let's call it the sun) is strongest, it acts like a reflective magnifying glass and you get a specular reflection (a highlight).Īll you need to do in Xara is draw a shape just inside your watery text, and give it a linear transparency so it fades off into the text. I'd just like to show a tiny enhancement that makes the watery text look more like water. I really dislike it when someone barges into a tutorial thread and says, "Oh, I didn't do it like the tutorial, but here's my work anyway."