Can someone please let me know if CorelDraw X5 has the facility of early versions of Corel to create fonts? And if so, are there any instructions on how to do it? There is a YouTube video in Russian and another with no speech and rapid mouse cursor movement that is too fast to follow.
If the font-making facility has disappeared from X5, is it possible to get hold of a version of Corel that does allow font creation, preferably to run in Windows XP? I do have a desktop with Windows 7, 64 bit if necessary.
Hi,
Yes you can. In X5 and the latest version X6. Look at this english speaking webinar about this topic. It is a long Youtube clip because it was one of Corel´s LIVE webinars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-cl8shGtE
I would suggest creating the font in CorelDRAW, the creative stuff, and finish off in FontForge or FontLab, or some similar program. So that you get all kerning and so forth done in a program solely made for that.
The video webinar i long yes, but you can always go back and fort.
Gary Bouton is who wrote/writes the CorelDraw Offical Guides. Good guy. On his web site, he has a Bonus Chapter PDF for fonts. You can download it. I don't think anything has changed in regards to font making in CD for a long time.
http://theboutons.com/x6-downloads.html
On the right side is the Font bonus chapter PDF.
I have used most all the font editors going back to the late 1980s. For the last few years I have been using FontCreator by HighLogic. I recommend it.
http://www.high-logic.com
Mike
Thank you, folks. Problem is that I want to be able to get back into pair kerning. The trouble is that as soon as I click on Download in any of the free sites another page come up straight away, telling me that the program I am after is infected. I don't believe it, of course, but however many time I retry the Download button, up comes the interfering program again (I think it was called "Panda").
Maybe if I was prepared to pay for a kerning program it would let me through?
FontForge looked good and downloaded easily, but as soon as I gave it the name and location of the TTF I wanted to work on, the message came up "FontForge" has stopped working. I am using an HP Phoenix desktop with Windows 7, 64 bit.
Regards,
Geoff
Bouton's site has no such issues. Right-click on the PDF link and choose to download it to the place on your computer you want it to go.
FontForge is a piece of crapware. Never has worked on any of the computers I have tried it on.
FontCreator, which isn't a free piece of software, is a professional font creating application that is simply less expensive than FontLab. It is available for a time-limited demo.
Thanks, Mike. I agree: Bouton's piece on creating fonts is absolutely brilliant, except that there is no mention of how to adjust pair kerning after all the individual characters have been created.
Have tried to download a demo of FontCreator, but the annoying Panda page creeps in again, preventing the download from starting.