Re: Windows 3.1 font manager - please help!

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Bill,

Font Chameleon 2 is something of a curiosity from my perspective, but if
you find it, you could put it up for sale at Ebay. There are people that
are looking for it desperately. You can get good money for it.


I have Fontographer 3.5 installed in my Win 3.1 setup. I have made lots
of font customizations using it in the past, but lately I prepared a set
of standard Type 1 fonts with Fontmonger Win 3.1 for Win7. They work
great. The old tools are quite up to date, if you do not need Unicode
fonts. I have not invested in Fontlab (http://www.fontlab.com/) which
has more modern tools.


If you looking for a font manager for Win7, check out Nexusfont
(http://www.xiles.net/nexusfont/). It is free and very capable. Works
with Type 1 and TrueType equally well.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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3.11.2013 18:32, Bill Troop wrote:
> 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 Somewhere I may still have the unpublished beta of Font Chameleon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?