Topic: Font creation
Started by: Bailey
Started on: 3/31/2002
Board: Publishing
On 3/31/2002 at 3:23pm, Bailey wrote:
Font creation
I've used Gimp for my font creation, but I'm not too good so I just download all the fonts a can.
On 4/1/2002 at 9:18am, Wolfen wrote:
RE: Font creation
I'm willing to try anything once. Where can I find this "Gimp" that you speak of?
On 4/1/2002 at 9:47am, Jason L Blair wrote:
RE: Font creation
I could be wrong, but I believe he's talking about the image program for Linux. Unless there's another Gimp around somewhere...
On 4/1/2002 at 7:17pm, Michael Bowman wrote:
RE: Font creation
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
On 4/1/2002 at 7:46pm, Adam wrote:
RE: Font creation
Jason L Blair wrote: I 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. ;)
On 4/1/2002 at 8:38pm, Clay wrote:
RE: Font creation
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. ;)
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.