#Fontlab studio vs fontographer software#
Portions of the software ended up as part of Flash, Freehand was abandoned but Fontographer was sold to FontLab.Īround 1990, FontLab was formed as a U.S.-Russian collaboration. The development of Fontographer stalled for a decade. Altsys later extended Fontographer into Freehand, a full-blown vector graphic editor, then was acquired by Macromedia and later by Adobe. In 1985, Altsys, a Texas-based company, developed Fontographer, the first Macintosh app that allowed drawing with Bézier curves, and the first PostScript Type 1 font editor. There some very capable apps in the package though the user interface of some may be a bit dated. The successor of URW, URW++ together with Dutch Type Library continued development of Ikarus based-tools under the DTL FontMaster brand. Peter van Blokland ported it to the Mac as Ikarus M. In 1975, the Hamburg-based company URW published Ikarus, the first computerized system for designing outline-based fonts. otf's with fontmake.and loving it! These tools have been a perfect fit for the project I've been working on.)
Thanks for any information anyone can share! RoboDocs has some documentation for defcon, so it looks like they're related? RoboFont? I stumbled upon RoboFont and RoboDocs recently. Are these packages only used for manipulating fonts programmatically and from the command line? Are they used in some type of font editing software? Like maybe.
These provide tools to manipulate fonts programmatically and from the command line. There's a whole series of packages in python that are wrapped up into fontmake. I'm not sure if it's connected to any of the items below or if it just stands on it's own. Could anybody give me the background on how all these tools for fonts fit together? I've been digging into this world of fonts.
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