Ben, I found a few links that might help in the meantime: The Linux Documentation Project's Font HOWTO has some goodies: Section 2 is a Quick Intro to Fonts: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x48.html Section 3 is Typography basics: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x95.html (you'll surely want to peruse the rest of the document, too) Section 11 is Useful Font Software for Linux: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/x846.html
Another TLDP doc, Font De-Uglification! http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/ This page came up via google, and shows much of the commercial software... some they mention, however, is apparently defunct, so maybe you can find an old copy somewhere? http://fontinfo.net/Font_Editors.html TrueTEX makes a professional implementation of TEX for winbloze, but their ttf_edit is available free to beta-testers... http://truetex.com/ AFAIK there is a LOT of font-conversion software out there... so if you create fonts (or modify existing ones) in pretty much any format, it should be >eventually< useful... and a few freshmeat entries of interest, to boot: bdfmerge: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bdfmerge console font editor: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cfe a KDE one: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fonteditor yet another: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fonter a conversion howto: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sbit converter, to svg: http://freshmeat.net/projects/font2svg and a font viewer: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gfontview good luck, 'hope this helps!! --ben B On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:38, Ben Huot wrote: > I wanted to create some open source fonts for Linux. I found Softy and > Typetool at 25 and then 100 usd. I wanted to know if there is anything I > would need to know to design good ones. > > Are these tools adequate - I'm not spending 500 usd for a program I'm > not going to make any money off of. > > Should I take a course first on typesetting - this would have to wait at > least 6 months when I might be getting enough money to afford a UO class. _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
