[CREATE] ink/paper simulation

[Dave Crossland]

Hi Boudewijn!

2009/7/7 Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>> Greetings, gents and ladies
>>
>> A while ago Yuri Yarmola, lead developer of FontLab (which seems to be
>> the most popular proprietary font design/production tool now),
>
> I've actually got a copy of that :-). Very old, version 2.5, and probably the
> disks have rotted through, but it was cool in its days. I'm a bit surprised to
> hear it's still going strong.

In fact it is the market leader, the only serious alternative at the
moment being FontForge. The vendor bought Fontographer from Macromedia
in 2006 or so, and have released it, and there are a couple of Mac OS
X only font editors currently in early development.

-- 
Regards,
Dave