Fontographer has been almost completely rewritten, with new features, a new look, and new compatibility. The new design is intended at making life easier for the graphic designer and desktop publisher, who are persistently under pressure to do more in less time. In this streak, the GUI has been modernized, but functionality like keyboard shortcuts and menu choices have not been changed, so that the learning arch for the new version is short for those already familiar with the product. Similarly, a lot goes on under the top of Fontographer through automatic defaults, eliminating baffling and time-wasting decisions about technical aspects like encodings and formats. Yet the choices are there if the user needs them.

Our work on Fontographer 5 was like a renovation of a classic car. We have kept the familiar, stylish body that users love, giving it just a restrained facelift. And then, we have replaced the old inefficient engine by modern cutting-edge technology. FOG 5 looks smooth and simple, but it rocks hard, said Adam Twardoch, Font lab Ltd. product and marketing manager.

Twardoch went on to say The beauty of Fontographer is that it allows you to ponder on the ingenious process of designing a print, without being diverted by the technical aspects of font making. FOG users always cherished the speed, ease and exactness in which they could draw Bezier outlines in the product so we have kept the drawing tools and implemented some long-standing facet requests such as a larger zoom level and outline ant aliasing. On the other hand, setting technical font parameters such as font naming or line spacing in Fontographer used to be awkward and did not consider recent developments such as Open Type so we have redesigned those aspects from grate with the goal of making them as easy to use as the rest of the product.

Speaking out on ecological genocide, Indigenous Peoples demonstrate the legacy of death and ruin from mining, power plants, toxic dumping and the nuclear industry, at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Indigenous Peoples are consulting and strategizing on energy and climate change, immigration, poverty, contract rights, valued sites, artistic preservation, and de-militarization.

Broadcast live on Earth cycles, Navajo Leona Morgan describes how new uranium mining targets Navajos living in Church Rock, N.M., where the nation’s deadliest radioactive spill occurred in 1979. In June of 2010, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Hydro Resources Inc. of Texas, which if it proceeds, will poison the water supply of Navajos with new in-situ uranium mining, by drilling on land beside Navajo land.

The Tewa Women United, on Earth cycles live, illustrate how the nuclear industry and Los Alamos National Laboratories have exposed Pueblos to generations of death and ailment in northern New Mexico. Open air burning, burial of nuclear waste and detonations have poisoned the land, air and water for today’s Pueblos and future generations.

Beata Tsosie Pena of Santa Clara Pueblo said, we live in the desert and our water supply is very valuable to us. Water is our life. I’m scared for my children. I’m scared for my grandchildren. I’m sacred for my elders.

Pilot Handwriting is a nice web service which lets you build own fonts from your handwriting. The idea is very simple head over to the website and downloads a sample template. Print the template on paper and fill out the template with all the alphabets and numbers.

Once you are done satisfying the template, switch on your webcam and grasp the paper right in front of the camera. The site will record your handwriting, read it and save a digital copy on its server.

Once the site has saved your handwriting, you can edit and make trivial adjustments with the mouse. Now comes the enjoyable part type an email from the site’s edge and the email appears handwritten.

The only drawback is that you are not allowed to download the font in your computer for future use. Never mind, at least you can use this tool to send a handwritten email to anyone.

Pen Company Pilot teamed up with Spanish advertising agency Grey to develop an online application that lets you create and send handwritten e-mails to your friends and family.

The application, which went live, last month, asks users to print out a lattice and fill it out with their own handwritten letters. These are then captured by webcam and crooked into a digital font that can be used to create handwritten messages.

If you feel like getting creative, see what happens when you fill in the grid with photos, images or drawings.

If you like the idea of letting your computer become your own handwriting machine, a website called Online Tech Tips provides a how-to guide that will teach you how to turn your own handwriting into a font on a Windows Tablet PC

The essence of survival can be expressed in nothing more than a flip of paint across paper, metaphysical purity exposed by a brushstroke on canvas, art drawing upon the font of inspiration flowing below perception, finding inspiration on the edge of feeling, love, and desire.

On the Edge, an exhibition presently showing at Ardel’s DOB Gallery unites eight Thai and deportee artists for an international journey that charts the coast of art and maps the enormous interior of a new, unchartered geography thriving with instinctual spontaneity.

The brief given by the curator, Brian Curtain, was for the artists to find emancipation and joy in the plainness of the line, and this is what audiences will find as they move about the gallery and stare upon each offering. Viewing “On the Edge” is like navigating between the opposing poles of likelihood and impossibility, plotting a path between perceptive representations and indistinct abstraction.

While all eight artists are joyful in their own right, one ray of light shines brightest. This is the second Bangkok group show for Jonathan Gent, an English artist building a dreadful reputation on the international prospect, and here he presents nine works on paper and two on wood.

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