Typophile

Petition for RoboFog

Tomi from Suomi

I dearly wish that we could have RoboFog for glyph design. This is a plead to LetteRerror to update your program to OS ten. We are not asking you to upgrade the font coding. Just the program to work.

“Just the program to work”.

Seriously, you don’t know what you’re asking as this is not a trivial thing at all. Robofog is dead, live with it.

-Paul

Tomi, I'm intrigued. What does RoboFog do that Fontlab/RoboFab don't do? Maybe its functions could be incorporated easier into FL???

What does RoboFog do that Fontlab/RoboFab don't do?

Robofog was a hack of Fontographer 3.5 which is no longer available and requires more hacks to run on Intel macs. Fontographer 4 is all that we have now; it was a complete rewrite of the program, broke RoboFog, etc. etc.. To make it happen the programmers would have to hack the crap out of Fog 4.x, which doesn’t work well anyway.

You could always donate money to the development of Glyphs, which is probably more up your alley than FLab: http://schriftgestaltung.de/glyphs/about.html

Sorry, just noticed my appalling English before! Who'd've thought I used to teach it?!

Tomi, didn't you just use RoboFog anyway??

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