Professional product at a budget price

Pros: The Home Edition is fine for new users, while the Pro edition offers more automation. Both offer full control over Truetype Fonts, and can import scanned images.

$99 is very little for such a powerful program. Fontographer is $349.00 and Fontlab is $549.00.

Font Creator will open huge Unicode fonts. In spite of its power, its system requirements are modest.

The Pro edition automates operations like making an oblique, bold, or light version of a font, inserting character sets with character mappings, completing composites, and combining contours.

The 30-day trial version is the Full Professional Edition. The responsiveness of the Program's author makes me confident that Font Creator will continue to improve with each new release.

Cons: Some users may miss Font Hinting, which is top of the "todo" list, but in my view it is not essential since greyscale smoothing is sufficient to improve onscreen display, and hinting is not used in printing on modern high resolution devices.

Posted: 08-Feb-2005 11:50:59 AM

Powerful, Easy to Use, and Beautiful

Pros: * Fullscreen mode uses toolbars on autohide.

* Zoom and pan single images with one tool.

* Lots of features: resize, flip, rotate, effects, adjust colours, etc.

* View Exif Info and JPG Comments

Cons: A little slow to create thumbnails, which are stored in a single database file. Windows 9x users may get system resource errors.

Posted: 19-Oct-2006 06:47:48 AM