Re: Windows 3.1 font manager - please help!

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Ah ! Somewhere I may still have the unpublished beta of Font Chameleon 2,
which should work under Win 3.1 - - I'll send it to you if I find it. It
was fantastic technology - - there was also their font editing program
for the Mac, FontStudio, which still has fans with its unrivalled
workflow. I probably still have Fontographer 3.5 and 5.0 (working beta)
from the 1990s if anyone needs, not to mention ATM Deluxe for NT. ATM for
NT still actually works well (with a few simple workarounds) in Win 7-32
but I have not attempted it on Win 7-64. I feel I need to start
transitioning to Win 8.1. I will be very happy when I have a version of
Win XP working with VirtualBox on 8.1 - - and hope at some point to have
working versions of 3.1 and 95 as well. I wonder if you could run Mac OS
Tiger in VBox and still get OS 8-9 programs to work?


At 03/11/2013 15:23, you wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> Oh yes, my font installations are mainly PostScript, and I am using ATM
> 3.02 which is the one that works in Win 3.1 and Win 95, and the only
> version compatible with VirtualPC and Win 3.1. Otis bought for me Ares
> Fontminder, which is the best font manager for Win 3.1. I have used and
> still use Ares Fontmonger for converting fonts, but somehow I did not see
> the point of Fontminder in the early '90s when it was readily available.
> Adobe bought Ares, which had great technology, but retired all their
> stuff. Some were simply too powerful for a company that sells fonts, like
> Font Chameleon (have a peek at:
> http://vimeo.com/14758983). Ares
> Fontminder handles Type 1 and TrueType equally well. I am looking forward
> to using this software. Thanks to Otis!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> lexitec@xxxxxxxx
>
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> 3.11.2013 16:50, Bill Troop wrote:
> > I'm just curious, Kari, will you
> > be managing PostScript fonts? As far as I know, Adobe still makes
> > versions of ATM Light available for free from their website. But I would
> > have thought that if font management was an important issue, you'd want
> > to be on Windows 95? ATM Deluxe was the first font manager on any
> > platform that was either usable or reliable . . . but it sadly only
> > reached perfection on Mac OS 8/9, and then external product development
> > was stopped. (Internal product development continued and continues,
> > however: the product was stealth-incorporated into Adobe's major software
> > products.)