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  Since I've received so many responses to my posting about Omni Group's
font software, I thought I'd just post/mail a summary response.

Schedule:
 None.  We have made a good deal of progress, but there is no way to know
 when, or even *if*, we will release.  So if this doesn't happen, don't be
 surprised in the least.  If you need something right now, don't wait.

Price:
  Even less firm than the schedule.

Compatibility:
  Right now it can parse all the Type1 fonts (excluding Ohlfs, since it
  simply is a 'link' to Courier) in /NextDeveloper/Fonts and all the Type1
  fonts from Fontographer that I have.  The oldest version of FG which was
  sampled for conversion was 3.1.  We handle various nasties that FG
  performs on its output, such as producing illegal encoding vectors
  (according to the Black Book), using \r instead of \n for newline, and
  telling lies about how many character strings are present.  

  Nothing has been done with TrueType or MS-DOS PS-fonts, although it
  sounds likely. 

  Type3 support will probably be limited since the parsing difficulties
  would be very large.  Type1 is better any way. 

Features (current and future):
  Type1 generation from bitmaps or user provided outlines
  Adjustable coarseness of bitmap->outline conversion
  Conversion from various non-NeXT formats to NeXT format
  Snap grid
  Auto hinting
  Subroutine optimization
  - anything else you would like to see? let me know -
  
Beta Testing:
  ... will be arranged when we have a schedule.  If you've already
  requested to be a beta, we'll let you know when that is.