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Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.5

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Category:	Fonts
Year released:	1996
Author:	Macromedia
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Download Fontographer_4.1.5.sit (869.95 KB)
For System 7.0 - 7.6 - Mac OS 9

Emulation
Guides on emulating older applications

One of the best font creation tools on the older Macintosh.

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC

This copy of Fontographer has been pre-installed and is incomplete. It will run on actual PPC Macintosh hardware, only. It crashes SheepShaver when you attempt to open any font. Will not run at all on 68k hardware or emulation.

For a full install of Fontographer to either 68k & PPC Mac & and works on all emulators, use instead the version 4.1.4 install set, located here or from within the FreeHand Graphics Studio (contains a full install of Fontographer 4.1.5 for 68k & PPC Macintosh).

Comments

by MikeTomTom - 2010, December 30 - 6:27am

@InkBlot:

if I recall correctly, System 6.0.8 was released only a few months prior to the release of Mac OS 7

SSW 6.0.8 was released with only printer fixes to enable users of 6 to share networked printers with users of the new Mac OS 7. Release notes can be found here along with System 6.x OS's and TrueType fonts and utilities for installing TT fonts into SSW 6.x (includes the TT Extension for SSW 6).

Edit: Changed 'xxx 7' to 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User

by InkBlot - 2010, December 29 - 3:22pm

Yes, there was a TrueType extension that allowed System 6.0.5 - 6.0.8 to use TrueType fonts. Apple actually released it about the same time as Mac OS 7 in order to provide some additional compatibility for System 6 users. Also, if I recall correctly, System 6.0.8 was released only a few months prior to the release of Mac OS 7.

by themacmeister - 2010, December 29 - 3:21am

I believe there was a TrueType extension for late versions of System 6 as well! I'm sure I used truetype fonts with System 6 (via Suitcase/ATM?).

by InkBlot - 2010, December 29 - 1:24am

Fontographer has been able to generate Bitmap, PostScript Type 1 and Type 3, and TrueType fonts going back to v4.0, which was released in 1993 and could run on a Macintosh Plus running System 6. I wouldn't be surprised if older versions could generate TrueType fonts as well since TrueType came out with Mac OS 7 in 1991.

Edit: Changed 'xxx 7' to 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User

by mjgleason - 2010, December 28 - 9:57pm

Thanks, I always wanted this one. This version may be able to export to TrueType, too.