I happen to believe that the day this was released I could hear the collective sigh of millions of Mac users who have wanted this as an OSX native app for 10 years. I joined them. Fontographer is no longer part of Macromedia though, it is now owned by FontLab (the makers of the program bearing the same name and ScanFont). How does it stack up? Read on.
In all actuality, the program looks no different than it's classic brethren. On a bad note it was also designed, I guess, to act just like it too. One thing that is missing from this OSX version is drag-and-drop. I don't know any program on OSX, except Fontographer now, that doesn't support that one mainstay feature. This is weird as FontLab supports it? Why not Fontographer? Are they trying to say this program isn't as important? I don't know.
All in all everything else is still in place and the program works exactly as it used to. And even if this is an exact clone of the classic version after a 10 year wait this should have been dubbed v5 IMO. But that's just nitpicking. If you are a veteran fontographer you can finally come home again. Go get this (and if you can find your old 4.7 CD you can get this at only $99). If you a newbie to the world of making fonts... then THIS program is for you. It's not too complicated to learn and you can do both Mac and Win fonts.
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