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Title: Font creation
Post by: Bailey on March 31, 2002, 04:23:52 PM
I've used Gimp for my font creation, but I'm not too good so I just download all the fonts a can.
Title: Font creation
Post by: Lance D. Allen on April 01, 2002, 10:18:00 AM
I'm willing to try anything once. Where can I find this "Gimp" that you speak of?
Title: Font creation
Post by: Jason L Blair on April 01, 2002, 10:47:46 AM
I could be wrong, but I believe he's talking about the image program for Linux. Unless there's another Gimp around somewhere...
Title: Font creation
Post by: Michael Bowman on April 01, 2002, 08:17:15 PM
The two main font creation programs are FontLab and Macromedia's Fontographer (which has been updated in years). I believe some people also use Adobe Illustrator as well.

Michael Bowman
Title: Font creation
Post by: Adam on April 01, 2002, 08:46:02 PM
Quote from: Jason L BlairI could be wrong, but I believe he's talking about the image program for Linux. Unless there's another Gimp around somewhere...
GIMP runs on Windows too, but in my experience it's sort of like running a marathon backwards on stilts. You'll get there - one day - but you'll be bruised and bloody from falling a lot. ;)
Title: Font creation
Post by: Clay on April 01, 2002, 09:38:04 PM
QuoteGIMP runs on Windows too, but in my experience it's sort of like running a marathon backwards on stilts. You'll get there - one day - but you'll be bruised and bloody from falling a lot. ;)

There's a new Gimp version out for windows that doesn't have that tragic crash-o-matic problem.  The windows version is nearly up to par with the UNIX version now.

More interestingly, exactly how does one go about taking a gimp file and turning it into a font?  I'm obviously ignorant of this capability, or for that matter the technical issues involved.