Some users of FontLab 7, and I imagine Glyphs as well, on the Mac, do not want to upgrade to the newest macOS, because they use software that doesn’t run on the newest OS. But it also makes it impossible to use some conveniences that Apple offers. Qt lets FontLab make the app affordable, because FontLab 7 can run on the Macs, and onbany inexpensive hardware that runs Windows, and even, with some limitations, on Linux. And each solution has its caveats.įontLab 7 uses Qt, which is great is some aspects. Rainer is right: there is no magic formula, no Qt or anything else helps you with that. I think the progress in all these apps is quite amazing. The Glyphs developers, the FontLab developers, the RoboFont developers put a lot of effort to match the requirements to go into the future. I think it’s understandable - Glyphs, FontLab and RoboFont have modest developer teams, and the font technology has been progressing rapidly.
#Fontlab studio 5.0 3 update
Similarly, FontLab 7 will publish a free update so that the app runs on macOS 12.3 (FontLab 7 is similarly affected by the change).ĪFAIK, RoboFont is also not providing fixes to old versions.
But of course I’m glad that there will be a free update to Glyphs 2 to run on macOS 12.3 that no longer ships Python. I’m not sure if Glyphs plans to provide updates to Glyphs 1. The current FontLab 7.2 is miles ahead of the (now similarly ancient) FontLab VI - over 650 feature additions and improvements and several thousand fixes. It was an app written from scratch, similar in a way to Glyphs 1. The original FontLab VI was indeed a painful release. Apple has since removed all system components that made FontLab Studio 5 work. In 2019, FontLab published FontLab Studio 5.1.6, again a free update that brought compatibility to macOS 10.13 High Sierra and 10.14 Mojave.īut it has been virtually impossible to keep the old (ancient, really) codebase of FontLab Studio 5 going, as it originated in FontLab 3 times.
In 2012-2013, FontLab had 3 engineers work for almost a year (collaborating with a very active user community) to port the app to Mac 32-bit Intel, and published this as a free 5.1 update, even though it was a heavy rewrite.
#Fontlab studio 5.0 3 for mac
I don’t think it’s a fair comparison, but since you’ve mentioned FontLab, I’d like to respond.įontLab Studio 5.0 for Mac was published in 2005 as a PowerPC app (the dominant technology at that time).
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