![]() ![]() I should tell something good about BirdFont. Same thing with a context menu, it's just a list some mix static actions where you can't find Delete action! One think you shouldn't use it, later version is proprietary. There is more, you should press some sentences of icons to achieve some results. You have to understand what they mean from short tool-tips only. They don't have even hovering, they don't changing visibility or sensitivity. All UI is just icons! It's Okay but they are absolutely static for all working session. So interface is absolutely not intuitive and not familiar to any other graphic packages. It's looking nice but you can't get a good documentation to start with it. I spend a lot time to learn BirdFont, made some things including tinkering with some online font-generators and decided to leave it for better time. It’s like you should just press Delete key but there is Backspace, I found in a few hours, days!!! I was so disappointed and tried to learn it from some video tutorials so. I couldn’t even delete some path’s points and couldn’t find any documentation how-to do that simple thing. I done a lot projects for AutoCAD, GIS and other related products professionally later. ![]() I worked on TV like 3D content and advertisement creator when I was a student yet. I worked in different PCADs, 3D Modeling CADs, CADs including Autodesk products, even GIS-es. But it was unusable at least for me.Īctually, I have a huge experience of working in different kinds of CAD applications. First searching on WEB and I found a modern-looking written on Vala BirdFont application for a font editing and creating. I thought it would be not too difficult, especially, when there is able such tools like Inkscape and so many open fonts in general. Where would Linux Kernel be without basic Linux packages beginning from GCC and ending with grep or wget). Actually, it’s a bit annoying when people think Linux is just a kernel. I was frustrated when I started to dig around a font’s creating on Linux ( I mean OS not the kernel. Second, I think I’m a bit Designer and always wanted to create a custom font. Icons could looks pretty odd or just be invisible on background. It could be a problem if you are using different Gnome Shell themes you can use too light or transparent styles for the panel. It would be pretty big amount of pictures, especially, if you are planning to use different states. Also I have planned some additional symbols for governments and others. Migrating to icons is not a good option for me. Would easily be a 5 star app if it was a LOT more user friendly.Now and again, I’m getting reports about missing symbols, not consistent icons so. But it would sure be nice to know how to use it. Now that I’ve played with it, I would have paid $50 or $60 for it. I basically took a chance that it wasn’t complete garbage since it’s the only font editor in the app store. It’s a great app, and I was hesitent to pay $15 for it because even the description in the app store is almost nonexistent. I’m sure the developer knows exactly what all the tools are and how to use them, but how about helping out users that are new to editing fonts. There are even a few videos, but they have no sound so you are just basically watching someone move the cursor around and don’t know when/if he’s clicking the mouse or pressing a key or anything. It doesn’t tell what all the tool icons are either. There is a manual/tutorial on the website, but it is severely lacking in details. ![]() Some tools tips when hovering over them would be great.Īlso, there is no help file, or manual. Some are obvious but most are just symbols that mean nothing to the average user. There is nothing to tell you what the tools are. It did everything I needed to do, but I was fumbling all the way through using it - used command-z a lot. ![]() There is a non App Store version of this app on the web that seems to be popular. This appears to be the only font editor in the Mac App Store. ![]()
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