Interfont
John Foust here. Thanks for the kind words about InterFont! Your comments
are much in line with what we're been hearing from other InterFont owners.
As for tracing IFF images, we knew a lot of people wanted to do that, but
couldn't justify it to be added to InterFont. It would be better as a
separate product, I think, called InterTrace :-). (There is no such
product yet.) It's hard to be able to accept any rez/size bitmap, and
still conform to the character paradigm of fonts, as well as represent all
the colors on-screen, as well as having reasonable menu colors. You can use
Calligrapher to load a bitmap into any font, then load it into InterFont.
In this way, you adjust the colors and sizes.
Right now, the edit window is stuck in one place. Good point, it would
have been nice as a real window. Your idea about setting the number of
points on a spline-by-spline basis is a good one, I've added it to the list
of maybes for 2.0. Beveling is a good idea, too, but there are several
reasons why it would be difficult.