Re: Windows 3.1 font manager - please help!

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

How interesting. I hope I didn't let it slip through my fingers. I
experimented with hundreds of composite fonts, and I ultimately
concluded that Chameleon would never produce a font that was actually
worth using. Even very subtle changes, like adding, say, 5% of
Galliard to 95% of Bembo, or 5% of Times to 95% of Garamond, or
whatever - - resulted in bafflingly uninteresting designs. But it was
a long ago and I was pretty immature when I was experimenting with it.


At 04/11/2013 08:00, you wrote:
> 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 Somewhere I may still have the unpublished beta of Font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?