MikeW wrote:Erwin Denissen wrote:The real downside with a downgrade is the lack of cubic bezier support.
Nah, not really. One can do the work-flow using a previous version that operates as one became accustomed to, then once the glyphs are in, open that project in 11 and convert the curves if so desired.
With version 11 you can copy vector based drawings one-to-one without conversion, as Adobe InDesign and FontCreator 11 both use cubic bezier curves. With versions prior to version 11, FontCreator will convert to quadratic, and then back into cubic which is never as good as it will use two conversions which will increase the number of points (nodes) and might also lose accuracy. If you copy and paste back and forwards a couple of times it will become even worse...
MikeW wrote:That is one reason I keep version 9 installed. I have to be able to test certain OT Features that are no longer possible in the last versions of 10 nor 11 while I am writing the code. Testing in a browser or temp export interrupts the work-flow by a magnitude of time.
What you do is different, assuming you work with TrueType based outlines. So in your case it is indeed possible to use both versions without affecting the glyphs. However FontCreator 9 contains code based on false assumptions, e.g. then we thought the feature order did matter, while in fact the lookup order is king.