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ATF Type Designer

Early typeface editor by the ATF/Kingsley people, which was capable of handling truetype, PostScript type 1 and 3, BDF bitmaps, Mac bitmaps, and Windows bitmaps. It was withdrawn. The developers included Jens Alfke and Henry Schneiker. It is rumoured that this program incorporated some of the old ATF optical scaling ideas. Its features are discussed at Typophile. A blurb taken from the ATF text: "ATF Type Designer I will come in several variants. A basic package, comparable to Fontographer 2.0 in scope, will cost $449 for a private license. That is, the user cannot make fonts for sale. However, he can prepare fonts and logos for in-house use. Hint-insertion tools are an extra $750; the Optical Scaling module is a $1,000 option. Commercial type designers must pay a much higher price: $55,000 plus a royalty of $3.40 per face. Alternative licenses, trading off the up-front fee for higher royalties, may also be negotiated." See also this Seybold report from 1989.

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