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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Hmmm somebody who's been lurking around here for almost 6 years and only has 158 posts to their name decides to break their silence and bestow upon us their brilliance?!?!?! Well, I for one feel really humbled that I could be part of it. 
I think I will give him/her some karma....oh wait, heshe has way too much as it is....can I give negative karma?? 
I for one enjoy Ms Hitch's "patois" and prefer that over the ramblings of an A**hat anyday! |
Thanks, Turtle. I admit, I was surprised at the bile. Oh, well. Can't please 'em all, eh? (I sincerely appreciate your post. Thanks much.
BRO.)
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Back on topic...
I feel you pain Hitch... Well, at least for a small part since I rarely deal with clients. I have searched long and hard for a good Font library program but never found one I like. It is either an open source one that is quite limited or a very expensive one with also noticeable lacks/omissions. For 'normal' fonts it can be made workable, but for glyphs is a totally different story.
Now, if you wouldn't mind a different program for fonts and glyphs, perhaps the search might be made somewhat easier since a program specialized in glyphs might be found. What are you looking for in a 'glyphs' program?
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Howdy, Tox:
You know...I'm not certain. That's part of the reason why I'm dithering. One of the programs that's mentioned fairly often is Popchar
http://www.ergonis.com/products/popc.../features.html
...and I really don't mind the $30. (Plus, hey, I have a coupon for ten bucks off! Wow.)
I guess that's why I'm asking here. While I'm not new to fonts, heaven knows, and Suitcase Fusion is pretty good for that, I have only recently branched out to
really embracing Glyphs for decorative fonts and custom fleurons (from those Glyphs). After all, eBookery hasn't really embraced these conventions, nor been able to technically support much of this before now. Ergo, I'm a bit of a babe in the woods about WHAT I'll need in Glyph management.
The problem wouldn't exist if these fonts routinely came with the above-mentioned glyph maps. Many do, many don't. I'm not enamored of the idea of having to make these myself for those that don't have a guide/map. Particularly as many of them have hundreds of glyphs (if not more). That one font I mentioned in my opening, so-offensive post, has a glyph set beyond the basic regular, italic, bold, bold-ital faces of 964 Glyphs. Roughly 60-70% of those are letter variants, kerning pairs and the like but the rest are perfectly usable fleurons, swatches, swooshes, etc.
I guess I'm old enough where I think of flipping through a page of glyphs. Then see one, grab it. Not sure how practical that is in my environment. Yes, we use INDD, and some of us have A.Illustrator, etc., but I don't see that being the route to the glyphs, either.
Laura Worthington--who does some fonts I rather like--recommends
PopChar, as well as the
OS/Free NexusFont and
Ultra Character Map. I was thinking of just biting the bullet and licensing PopChar, but that's one of the reasons I posted--I was seeking feedback from the other font folks here.
I suppose I could simply download Popchar's free version. I was hoping to avoid the typical try, buy, cry cycle of software acquisition, <g>.
Thanks. I can say, for anyone else coming along, I rather like Suitcase Fusion for font management. And Typograf's not bad. In hindsight, I think I should have started out with NexusFont, but...{shrug}. I do have to use this commercially, so the easier to manage, the easier to find the glyph/fleuron I need, when I need it...that's a real plus.
Thanks!
Hitch