Any Current or Future Plans to Develop ARM-based Architecture Versions of FontCreator and MainType?

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Any Current or Future Plans to Develop ARM-based Architecture Versions of FontCreator and MainType?
In the meantime, is there an option to run your x86 versions in some sort of emulation mode within the ARM-based environment?
In my case, I’m looking to run FontCreator & MainType within my M1 Mac Studio running macOS Monterey operating system within a Parallels Desktop - Windows 11 Pro virtual machine.

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Even though we would love to have a Mac version, we currently have no plans to make such Mac compatible version, but even right now there are ways to use it on a Mac.

This tutorial shows several options that allow you to use our font editor on a Mac.
Running FontCreator on a Mac

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Thank you for your prompt reply, Erwin.
That’s where my problem lies with the Parallels Desktop virtual machine running Windows 11 Pro which can only run in an ARM-based environment within Apple’s exclusive Metal API. That’s why I inquired about your software possibly running within that environment in an emulation mode to run (albeit most likely) much less responsive due to the emulation process.

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We haven’t tried it, but what about Wine?

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Update:
I attempted to install Wine on my M1 Mac Studio Ultra but unfortunately, it does not install within Apple’s Metal API.

Should the developer decide to create a compatible installer in the near future, perhaps I will have another opportunity to get your applications to run within that environment.

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Too bad you are not able to use FontCreator on your Mac.

It would be great if someone knows a way.

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We have upgraded our installers, so you should be able to install our software on ARM.

We also released a Mac version of FontCreator.

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Thank you for your software update information, Erwin.
I can confirm that Font Creator is compatible and can run within my Parallels Desktop environment running Windows 11 Pro (the latest version) on my M1 Mac Studio system.
I am a Font Creator Mac version beta-tester using it on my M1 Mac Studio. I have been satisfied with its overall performance and have not encountered any issues.

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That is good news!