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TH> .dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin)  writes:
  > .> Fontmonger, as you thought, is strictly a conversion program.  It's $95.

TH> .As has been pointed out before, this is incorrect.  While FontMonger isn't
  > .as *good* for designing fonts as Fontographer, it does work and let you
  > .create new characters and even entire new fonts.  No manual hinting capabi
  > .lity, though (although it does do autohinting).

It's certainly not worth fighting about, but I still wouldn't call
FontMonger a design program.  It does allow editing of glyphs, remapping
them, and conversion between many formats.  It's worth the money, but if
I were designing a font from scratch, FontMonger wouldn't be the tool.

Independent of my feelings, nowhere in the user manual does Ares suggest
that FM be used for font design.  That, I think, indicates whether THEY
think it's a design program.

Yes, it's POSSIBLE to use FontMonger to create a font from scratch.
It's also possible to create a program by doing COPY CON FOO.COM. <~>

        D/


TH> .As far as I can tell, FontMonger has three advantages over Fontographer:
  > .        1. It's cheap.  ~$95 now, and I got mine before the price went up.
  > .        2. It does more format conversions, I think.
  > .        3. It's available for PCs (Windows) NOW, not just Real Soon Now.

TH> .That said, I don't think FontMonger and Fontographer are competing tools.
  > .As I see it, Fontographer is aimed at the professional type designer, whil
  > .FontMonger is for casual users who want to convert some fonts and maybe ad
  > .some characters to existing fonts (or maybe create a custom symbol font).

TH> .Oh, and AllType is for people who want to thoroughly mangle their fonts.

TH> .[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capo
  > .[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standa
  > .[ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- poloni

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