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- Because of the complications which can arise when introducing a new code base, every other company of which I am aware normally continues to maintain the old version for a period of time following the the release of a version built around a new code-base. But this has not been the case here.I'm not aware of maintenance policies as such, but as one obvious way to avoid the problem would have been to let FontLab 6 be a more incremental release, while having another team working on FontLab 7 so as to give them more time to implement all the features in the new codebase, I suppose their problem is a shortage of programmers.So that they can't afford to continue maintaining the old version is, I suppose, also a very real possibility. At least enough of their customers are happy; no doubt they would prefer to do the right thing, but if they aren't selling enough copies to pay for doing it the right way, nothing much can be done about it.
- We will be making an announcement very soon on the current OS issues.
- While we're talking about FLS5 issues with Mac updates:
Since I updated my Mac OS, my macro menus in *Windows* FLS5 running under VMware are no longer sorted alphabetically: they're randomly jumbled. This seems to have occurred in the transition from Sierra to either High Sierra or Mojave. I suspect it has something to do with the way Mac OS is storing files internally and how FLS5 is accessing them (my user FontLab folder is shared by both Mac OS and the Windows virtual machine).
It's Windows FL version problem. I have both physical Windows and Mac machines and scripts order are different across them.While we're talking about FLS5 issues with Mac updates:
Since I updated my Mac OS, my macro menus in *Windows* FLS5 running under VMware are no longer sorted alphabetically: they're randomly jumbled. This seems to have occurred in the transition from Sierra to either High Sierra or Mojave. I suspect it has something to do with the way Mac OS is storing files internally and how FLS5 is accessing them (my user FontLab folder is shared by both Mac OS and the Windows virtual machine).
Windows 10 sorting:- edited April 2019Over the last few hours, we at FontLab released updates to Mac versions of FontLab Studio (5.1.6), Fontographer (5.2.4) and TypeTool (3.1.3). These address compatibility with macOS 10.14.4, as well as some 10.13/10.14 issues for FontLab Studio and TypeTool.
I would have said more in advance, but of course it wasn’t necessarily clear how this would all turn out until we did it. I didn’t want to promise anything we couldn’t be certain of delivering. - Thanks a lot Thomas and team for extending the life of FL5
- It's Windows FL version problem. I have both physical Windows and Mac machines and scripts order are different across them.Strange. I'd seen this on my Macbook (High Sierra & Mojave), but on my iMac the macro ordering was fine for years, until I recently updated the Mac-side OS from Sierra to Mojave, and then it all got jumbled.
'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'André G. Isaak said:
As with almost all software, unless the correct number of goats are sacrificed you may get capricious results.
— Arthur C. Clarke- Where do I download the updated version of Fontlab 5? Do I just install the demo and let it detect my license?
- There's a link in the FontLab 5 forum
https://forum.fontlab.com/fontlab-studio/free-update-to-fontlab-studio-5-1-6-for-mac!/ - edited April 2019Go to the app page link here, then scroll down to enter your email address in the form: FontLab Studio 5.1.6 for macOS (10.6–10.14)
- I have a general question for everyone. Based on experience, would you recommend purchasing a license for Fontlab VI immediately, even if you are still using version 5?
I am on an old Mac Pro, with El Capitan v10.11.6, and since I restarted using Fontlab (I have v5.1.5), aside from minor glitches, it seems it’s still working fine. - If Fontlab 5 meets your needs, then there would be no reason to buy a fontlab VI license. On the other hand, if you plan on eventually transitioning to VI, there's no real reason to not get the license now. Have you used the free trial to see if VI has features you want/need which may be lacking in 5?
- Hi André, thanks. Yes, despite the known bugs I seem to get Fontlab VI has many useful features, and since I just need to upgrade it would make sense to keep the license updated and keep both, even if I will not be using VI much in the beginning.
Since I am more focused on drawing accuracy, spacing et al. and less on technical subtleties (aside from basic OT features) I was thinking there was not a specific need to upgrade immediately but on the other hand, if there are aids to edit the bezier curves it could be good to have VI as well. - edited April 2019
As long as you don’t upgrade to macOS 10.15 in the future. FontLab Studio 5 is a 32-bit app. Unless something surprising happens, it will not run on 10.15 (expected in fall 2019).If Fontlab 5 meets your needs, then there would be no reason to buy a fontlab VI license. - What about TypeTool? I have no control over the OS in the lab my students use... Should I be panicking for next semester? :-/
- //Should I be panicking for next semester?//Be afraid. Be very very afraid.
- TypeTool is the same situation: it is a 32-bit app.
Existing versions of TypeTool, FontLab Studio and Fontographer are expected to not run at all on macOS 10.15.
Of course FontLab VI is 64-bit (although there is a 32-bit version available for those users on 32-bit builds of Windows). TransType is also 64-bit on Mac.
Thanks Thomas. Not planning to upgrade the OS (El Capitan is the most recent my old Mac Pro can run) but Fontlab VI looks awesome (I am trying the Demo) so I’ll definitely upgrade now and keep both. :-)
As long as you don’t upgrade to macOS 10.15 in the future. FontLab Studio 5 is a 32-bit app. Unless something surprising happens, it will not run on 10.15 (expected in fall 2019).If Fontlab 5 meets your needs, then there would be no reason to buy a fontlab VI license.
Hmmm, this will be a problem for many educational institutions... Especially with larger schools (like the one I'm at) that can't easily be stopped from upgrading the OS.TypeTool is the same situation: it is a 32-bit app.
What are the chances you can swing a 64-bit conversion in the few weeks you have left? :-/- Such institutions may need to look at upgrading their software to something that runs on the current OS.
FontLab has always had solid education pricing, and the discount for FontLab VI is no exception in that regard. Worth taking a look. - Hrant,
if a conversion to 64-bit were easy, we would have done it in 2011-2014 when we were moving FontLab Studio 5 and TypeTool from PowerPC (5.0.4, 3.0.x) to Intel (5.1, 3.1). Both apps are based on the same code. The FLS5/TT3 codebase is the opposite of modern (we have to use Mac OS 10.6.8 to compile it).
The Windows versions of FontLab Studio 5 and TypeTool 3 will likely continue working for many years, since Microsoft does not seem to be renoving support for 32-bit apps.
Apple has been known for the disregard for the developers, and for the investments made by their users, especially institutional users. As a company, if you've comissioned custom software for the Mac, maybe hired some external team that is now gone, or if you've licensed really expensive specialty software, in other words, if you're a professional — you're screwed with Apple.
Mac OS X was released in the same year as Windows XP (2001).
All apps that worked in Windows XP still work in Windows 10 today. That includes FontLab apps of course.
All fonts that were made in that year still work today.
But not a single app that worked on the initial Mac OS X will work today, and most apps developed just 5-7 years ago or earlier will not work in the upcoming macOS. - «Apple has been known for the disregard for the developers, and for the investments made by their users, especially institutional users. As a company, if you've comissioned custom software for the Mac, maybe hired some external team that is now gone, or if you've licensed really expensive specialty software, in other words, if you're a professional — you're screwed with Apple.»
That is “very nice”, good to know. Thanks Adam. - OK… I just licensed the upgrade to Fontlab VI and was starting the learning curve.
Quite happy, aside from minor bugs, when all of a sudden, while using the Sketchboard window, it started getting erratic, and crashed.
I decided to reinstall it from scratch, and now it does not even open… I just opened a ticket. :--(
Besides hoping I have not lost the work I was doing on a new font, I am pretty annoyed as with the limited time I have I was planning to take advantage of tomorrow to work on the font but… nada. - Many thanks to your submission via our support system, Claudio! The problem is fixed, and will be resolved in the upcoming 6.1.5 version.
It just came as unpleasantly unexpected because the application would not open after being reinstalled – problem is being aware of things, as it wouldn’t have been a big issue for me to continue using FontLab 5 and wait a bit.Many thanks to your submission via our support system, Claudio! The problem is fixed, and will be resolved in the upcoming 6.1.5 version.
Thanks for Yuri's swift reply, now I’ll wait to see what I can do…- Mac OS X was released in the same year as Windows XP (2001).
All apps that worked in Windows XP still work in Windows 10 today. That includes FontLab apps of course.
All fonts that were made in that year still work today.
But not a single app that worked on the initial Mac OS X will work today, and most apps developed just 5-7 years ago or earlier will not work in the upcoming macOS.
In fairness, a more appropriate comparison would involve Mac OS 10.5 rather than the original Mac OS since 10.0 ran on PowerPC architecture.
Still, your point is well taken.
Apple's philosophy seems to be that everyone will buy the iNewest iShiniest iThing as soon as it is released, and that no one could possibly have any use for software which hasn't been updated in the past 6 months. - Or as I like to say: Apple has got you by the dongles.
- Whenever I read this thread title, I hear it in Marilyn Manson's voice.
- There are still some people holding onto Microsoft Internet Explorer. Whether they’re forced by their company to use it or by choice, they keep lamenting that nothing really works when they are visiting websites. Any website today, because any website today is using modern HTML4 and CSS3 standards. And these were not around when Internet Explorer was conceived. Its old code was based on different technologies – a different age of technologies. Consequently, Microsoft gave up on it and today Microsoft begs its Internet Explorer users to switch to Edge, which they are currently basing on Google’s Chromium engine.
The evolution of operating systems and consequently the software running on them is not meant to stop at something that worked at some point in time. That has nothing to do with how companies would want it to be, it is a simple matter of technological development. We learn and rewrite things, we even come up with new programming languages, because over time using the previous version we learned what wasn’t working so well and what could be improved.
Companies like Apple don’t have an evil agenda to drain the pockets of consumers with new software updates and forcing them to update. It’s the steady customer demand for improved technology that is driving the entire market, as the thriving for technological advance it has always been the driver for humankind, at least since the industrial revolution.
Eternal backwards-compatibility of software that was written five or 10 years ago remains a fantasy of those people who either buy computers thinking they are buying a car that’s supposed to work the same way for the next 20 years without any upgrades, or who have no real grasp of how progress works. The notion that something that was built for a different OS many years ago should be maintained to work with future systems for eternity is not only baseless, it’s also silly.