Typophile

Need Advice on Font Program

renn

Hi guys,

I'm looking for a program that allows me to create or modify fonts. The problem is that one of the fonts I want to modify is a Japanese font and has nearly 16000 glyphs in it.

First I tried the shareware version of Font Creator, but it seemed real slow, I tried moving the japanese characters to another font, and 10 minutes later, it was still frozen and windows would say the program was not responding anymore, so I just gave up.

Fontographer wouldn't even open the file, saying there was not enough memory to perform the operation.

I also heard of another program called FontLab, it looks really nice (and really expensive too), but I read that you cannot save fonts with more than 6400 glyphs in them.

Does anyone know of a good program that can handle big fonts like that?

Renn.

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