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Like most of my fonts, CatBats opens very slowly in preview, but works fine if installed, unless you are using Windows Vista. It's probably better to use the character guide for preview before deciding if you want to install it.
~bito
The problem is that you there are files in your new zip that have the same name as files in the folder where you have extracted other zips. Most likely a read me document or internet shortcut file is contained in both the new zip and the other folder.
I recommend that you make a separate folder for non font files in the directory where you extract your zips. If you get the duplicate file warning for a .ttf or .otf file, it probably means you have downloaded the same font twice.
Many sites have a generic read me enclosed with each font download zip, and several have an interent shortcut included in the zip, as well. Sometimes the read me documents contain different text, but the file name is the same. Windows doesn't care what the contents of a file are. It just won't let you have two saved files with the same place, name, and type, even if the files themselves are different. .
The exeption to this rule is for temporary files. For example, if you have a lot of Internet Favorites, and if there are site specific favorite icons, you may have several different .ico files, all named 'favicon', in your Temporary Internet Files folder. If you copy them to a permanent location, however, you have to name them individually, or the most recent one saved will overwrite the previous one.
I've never had any direct correspondence with Analia. She posted on another message board that she had some fonts that she had made, and she would like to share them. If referred her to a number of sites that accept font submissions, including this one, and I also referred her to Luc Devroye, who set up a homepage for her on his site. I really like her dingbat font, but that has received no comments.
The John Lennon Normal font was made in August, 2006, so, if she's still making fonts, no doubt her skills have improved. I didn't even know Go Go Gjoob existed, because I don't go to myfonts. There's a good chance she didn't know about it, either.
I'm not a big fan of handwriting fonts, or of this font in particular, other than the dingbat characters, but I am a fan of anyone who makes fonts themselves, and choses to freely share them with others. Nothing kills enthusiasm more than lack of encouragement and unconstructive criticism.
I was very fortunate to have support and encouragement from Luc Devroye while I taught myself fontmaking, through trial and error. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, I try to help people make their fonts better, by letting them know which techniques will and will not work, because I had to find all of that out myself, the hard way.
I've had a steep learning curve since my first disasterous attempt at making a font myself in August, 2007, and I'm always looking for new ways to make more complex fonts, while staying within the memory limits of my fontmaking software. I've had a lot of downloads recently, over 12,000 in the last 2½ weeks, but very little feedback, including no comments here, other than my own notations.
Letraset no doubt uses a program much more sophisticated than ScanFont, but I'm limited to ScanFont because it's the only one I have that lets me import monochrome bitmaps directly. Analia uses something from Font Logic, but I'm not sure what.
I can't justify paying hundreds of dollars to buy a better program, just so I might be able to make my freeware fonts look a little bit better. I do the best I can, and I'm sure that's what Analia did, as well. I've seen other fonts on this site that weren't any better, but they weren't singled out for negative comments.
Those are the differences one would expect between a $40 commercial font and one done as a freeware font by an enthusiastic amateur.
I knew Luc Devroye would check that sort of thing out before making a homepage for Analia. If there's someone on the Internet who knows more about fonts than you, koeiekat, it would be Luc.
Those remarks are both cruel and unbecoming. Of course two fonts of John Lennon's handwriting are going to look similar. It doesn't mean that one is a ripoff of another.
Just because Letraset made a commercial font "inspired" by John Lennon's handwriting, and charges $40 for it, doesn't mean someone else can't use a similar source to make a free one of their own. It's based on someone's handwriting. Of course they're going to look alike!.
It would be a ripoff if the Goo Goo Gjoob font was modified to create a free one, but two different people can use the same "inspiration", and it isn't plagiarism just because someone did it first..
There are many documents available that contain Lennon's handwriting, and Analia's source is not necessarily Letraset's font.
I checked the metadata with Studio5, and there's no evidence that another font was modified to make Analia's, and it's not as if Goo Goo Gjoob is an original creation, conceived by Letraset.
There aren't all that many designers putting new fonts up here. That sort of reply doesn't really inspire others to do so.
Flotner is a little too graphic for kids. I don't think she's looking for naked bodies that create the letters. It's a great font, but not for her purpose.
 And here's a quickie Paul. I didn't spend more than 2 or three minutes on either of them.
Here's a quickly done John Lennon for you.
It looks like the picture description didn't come up. The above is one of my source graphics from LaetitaBats 1 or 2.
Congratulations on your fonts, Analia!
I responded to an inquiry from Analia in another fonts forum, suggesting a number of sites where she might be able to display her work. This site was one of them, and I know of at least two other places that I suggested that now have them, as well.
I love AHDN, but I am biased towards dingbat fonts, in particular.
Analia, if you are reading this, please consider sending me an e-mail at bobistheowl@hotmail.com, if you would like to have some assistence with making dingbat fonts. There isn't much in the way of tutorials on the subject that can be found on the Internet, but I have learned a lot through trial and error, and I may be able to give you some tips that you won't be able to find somewhere else. You can find some of my fonts here by looking in the new stuff between January 18 and February 1. I can't help you with any questions about alphabet fonts, though. Most of my font making procedure is based on mathematics, rather than drawing ability.
Thanks,
~bito
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