The only serious competitor at the time, FontLab (later FontLab Studio), was generally considered more difficult to use, although by 2005 it had overwhelmingly replaced Fontographer for most professional font development.
Although development of the font editor was frozen from 1991, when version 4.1 was released, until 2006, many font and graphics designers continued to use it. A new version of Fontographer was included in the Macromedia Graphics Suite, which helped its wider adoption. In January 1995 Altsys was acquired by Macromedia and both Fontographer and FreeHand were incorporated into the Macromedia product lineup. In 1989, Fontographer 3.0 was released, featuring an auto-trace tool and automatic generation of hints for Postscript printer fonts. With the PostScript background established with Fontographer, Altsys developed FreeHand in 1988 as a Macintosh Postscript-based illustration program using Bézier curves for drawing and editing. Fontographer 2.0 was released eight months later in the Fall of 1986. High quality fonts in the PostScript format could be developed for a fraction of the cost of all other existing methods ( URW's Ikarus required systems costing over $100,000 ), leading to what has been called "the democratization of type design": for the first time in history, numerous self-taught type designers without substantial capital investment produced fonts for professional use. įontographer, developed by von Ehr for the Mac and released in January 1986 -before Adobe Illustrator- was the first commercially available Bézier curve editing software for a personal computer. Fontastic Plus was later introduced with new editing tools and kerning pairs. It introduced many of the interface elements that would carry over into Fontographer. The program, developed by Altsys founder Von Ehr, was able to edit the native bitmap font format of the Mac.
The first foray by Altsys into commercial font editing software was a bitmap font editor called Fontastic, released in the mid-1980s for the Apple Macintosh. Von Ehr II founded the Altsys Corporation to develop graphics applications for personal computers. It was originally developed by Altsys but is now owned by FontLab Ltd.
Fontographer ( FOG) is a font editor for Windows and macOS it is used to create digital fonts.
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