Could you comment on the issues in this thread?

Frank, we get a lot of legal questions around here, but if you did a search on the omnipresent closing caveat "but I'm not a lawyer" in the Typophile archives you'll see how badly we need you around! Of course you should get paid for "formal" legal advice, but if you could chime in now and again to help set us straight on the technicalities, that would be very gracious of you.

Fog3.1:
- Will it even run on a G4?
- Why specifically that version of that software?

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Fog3.1: - Will it even run on a G4?

It will run on OS9.x, and that runs fine on any G4. In fact, we keep a G4 tower with just system 9.2 for the occasional old Quark document or other redundant applications which won�t run on our clean, non-classic-runnig OSX machines.

Let me also put in another plug for FontForge, a free software font editor which is also quite useful for converting font formats and related tasks. There are packages for Mac OSX. You'll probably need the Apple X11 server to run it, but that really isn't any more hassle than running a program in Classic.

Oh, and welcome to typophile! You may not realize what a can of worms you have opened with your offer to help on legal questions

In the spirit of making solid files and remaing current most
people here would suggest FontLab. It's all I use but...

Three years ago in a last ditch effort to stick with FOG I found
Fontographer 3.5 and FontStudio 2 on Ebay for a mere $4.95
each. After placing my bid I recieved a call from a software
clearence place in Californing asking if actually wanted this
stuff as it was still on floppies. Of course! So a week later
they arrived stil in the box. Both work on OS9 and I ended
up paying something like $15 total with shipping. I never use
them though. Kind of like collector automobiles for the poor.

Dear Eric:

I just tested the portable floppy drive from my Sony Vaio on the G4 - it works!

Please, bitte, por favor, sell me that old software that is taking up valuable space and just collecting dust...... Many other foundries will be grateful. I'll pay a fair price.

Frank Martinez

Frank,

I've located a spare Fog 4.1 for Mac if you want it, but I only have one copy of 3.5 for Mac (in a classy black and gold AltSys box). If you have no luck locating a used copy I'd be happy to loan it to you, on the condition that you send it back if we ever need it.