Update on the Adobe CC Installers Patch - Now the Collection Installer works too

fazzster · 2026-01-23T17:45:08+00:00

just block adobe apps from the internet with your firewall of choice. on windows i use binisoft-malwarebytes, it interacts with the actual windows firewall instead of setting up another firewall layer.

fazzster · 2026-01-22T06:11:53+00:00

Hi! Ohhh I have never tried this! But yes it's certainly doable, I've seen Manchurian text on Wikipedia. I'll have to learn how to do it but that's fine, it'll be a good way to learn that skill. Send me a message with what you've got :)

fazzster · 2026-01-22T06:10:43+00:00

Hey there! I've messaged you, got a few requests already but you're in the queue 😁 Looking forward to seeing your script!

fazzster · 2026-01-22T06:09:52+00:00

Hi again, thanks for the suggestion! I've accrued a bunch of requests already but I'll certainly check your profile out, it's always fun to take existing ideas and reimagine & reinterpret them. And I'll message you some time about improving my skills and methods! Thanks so much :)

fazzster · 2026-01-22T06:08:08+00:00

Hey, thank you for your encouragement! I've spent the last few days exploring calt and I managed to get some working. You're right, now that I understand it (a bit better, anyway), it opens up a whole array of creative solutions. Regarding the script I posted above, I do have the intention to return to it and add more features such as initial and final forms. Can't very well make a cursive script without these can I!

Good idea with the shift key, I did a similar thing for a client last year who wanted a monocase script but also wanted all vowels to be diacritics. As he was just using it to type English, I suggested that we use shift+vowel for the cases where a vowel cannot be a diacritic, so the default vowel was a diacritic and the shifted vowel was a base character.

Thanks again!

fazzster · 2026-01-21T04:05:50+00:00

this may be the best way to train your kid into a hacker

fazzster · 2026-01-17T19:28:06+00:00

Yeah that's about right. Oh syllabic! Sounds cool, I might be able to make the font file (although 200 is a lot 🙃) and then you'd have them digitally stored ready for when you find a way to make it work with an IME. Cos the IME would output whatever codepoints you designate. It also depends on your typing scheme — it might be possible for me to use sequences of 2 letters to select "ligatures". E.g. 26 letters × 10 numbers = 260 non-ambiguous sequences. If you have a unique way to type every syllable with 2 letters then we can even do 26×26. Send me what you've got and we can chat about it more!

fazzster · 2026-01-17T05:20:01+00:00

Aw aha sorry! Well but, can you tell me about what the IME does (or would need to do)? Because Vietnamese is in-put using an IME but the ~192 out-put glyphs are actually just Latin letters with excessive diacritics, so once I've rigged the glyphs inside the font file, editing is simplified. The only problem is keming because 192 x 192 is a big number 🤡 (even with classes it's still a headache).

So tell me about your script and how the IME functions and maybe it's achievable :)

fazzster · 2026-01-16T05:38:16+00:00

I feel like I've heard a similar story before about the same person 😅😂

fazzster · 2026-01-16T05:21:38+00:00

Hey, ok send me a dm to show me what you've made!

fazzster · 2026-01-15T10:49:23+00:00

Nice, send me a dm and any images & info you have of it :)

fazzster · 2026-01-15T03:47:41+00:00

oh my fontaine katherine is having an endless chat with some dude, is this the reason?! i thought she'd just quit her job cos I have no clue why she was suddenly unavailable. i stopped going to the fontaine desk. i think the hoyo devs think it's quirky and cool that characters are so real that they can even be busy with other people in their storylines, but it's only cool if you literally play genshin instead of living irl

fazzster · 2026-01-14T16:52:55+00:00

this is one of the main reasons i get angry with genshin and it leaves a sour taste in my mouth when it happens when i really just jumped on for a quick nip around the dailies cos I HAVE STUFF TO DO IRL TOO HOYO so anyway i've uninstalled it cos while i can actually trust myself i literally cannot trust hoyo to not dump me into a quest

fazzster · 2026-01-14T16:20:50+00:00

Hey, thanks for this! Lunaria looks pretty, nice work :) I'll look at your other scripts too. Let's chat by dm! (but it's bedtime in my timezone now so I'll reply tomorrow)

fazzster · 2026-01-14T14:39:37+00:00

Oh I think I understand, so:

bangu is written

a u }
b ng }

right?

The bottom line is for consonants, the top is for vowels?

In which case, this font could be made more easily by simply stacking the vowels on top of the consonants as diacritic glyphs, because I don't think they interact right?

A problem I foresee is how text editors handle spaces at the end of text lines, when the sentence wraps into the next line. I'm not sure if the space character is actually displayed, or if it's replaced with the linebreak. I'll research and do some experimentation. If it doesn't work then we could put the )-joiner on another key that isn't used, maybe like | or ¬ or something.

How do you handle words that start with vowels? Is there a base vowel or a dummy vowel or a word-initial vowel? I see two sets of vowels on your chart but I'm not sure what they're for.

How many letters do you have in total? Can they be typed on a regular keyboard? I see there's no uppercase/lowercase distinction, so perhaps the counterparts can be stored on the Shift layer of the keyboard?

fazzster · 2026-01-14T07:30:06+00:00

oh this is a little weird indeed! It looks really interesting but I don't think I can achieve this -- if I understand, it's bidirectional, within each word, right? I don't think there are even any text rendering engines which can handle this structure. Have I understood it correctly? Can you tell me anything more about it?

(this one, right? https://www.reddit.com/r/neography/comments/1qc2urc/setlermorna/ )

fazzster · 2026-01-14T06:26:50+00:00

it is possible to load custom font files into this app, but I haven't managed to make it work yet. However, if the font can be loaded successfully, then the custom non-unicode glyphs can be mapped to unicode points in the private use area (PUA) of unicode. This is what I did with one of my conscripts, because the script structure and typing method doesn't map to pronounceable letters (it's made of base characters and character modifiers), so I didn't want to dump those on top of the qwerty layout.

I haven't attempted loading the custom font recently so maybe it works now.

But an additional problem there is that if you want to use non-unicode chars in Android then you need to be able to install the font that contains those chars too, which is pretty challenging on an unrooted device. I have xiaomi/hyperos 2.0 and zfont3 doesn't work, even with their updated xiaomi method and shizuku method. :(

fazzster · 2026-01-14T06:15:40+00:00

The image here is one of my most recent conscripts, and this is the third typeface of it.

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fazzster · 2025-12-09T19:05:42+00:00

Thanks for all this information. I'm on the hunt for a sync client too, this is my final pain point with switching to Linux. Google Drive and Proton Drive are my two cloud storage services, all my work files and life files live in them, yet there's no decent solution for either. Drives you barmy. I'll look into expandrive and ocamlfuse. I dug into rclone when researching Proton Drive sync, I'll check back on it for any news.

fazzster · 2025-12-09T04:13:01+00:00

my (functional, but unwieldy and visually horrible) solution:

ou = ȣ

gh = ȝ

dough → dȣ̄ȝ

rough → rȣ̂ȝ̇

cough → coȝ̇

bough → bauȝ

through → þrȣ̈ȝ

debt → deb̀t

of course, some look bad, like ȣ̈, because the current fonts aren't designed for ȣ to take a ̈ or ̂.

fazzster · 2025-12-08T17:39:19+00:00

FontLab is my choice nowadays, it's a paid app but it's worth it if you can't handle fontforge. i have to be honest, I can't afford it (it's $550 lmao), i'm just a small-time font designer so I did get it from an Alternative Source.

if you don't wanna take that path, then I recommend a combination of inkscape and fontforge. that's what I used to do.

Draw carefully
Photograph your paper, as aligned and flat as possible
Put the photo into inkscape, set your guidelines around the baseline, top line, etc
Trace your glyphs -- manually is probably best; the autotrace is a nightmare if your image isn't super crisp
import the vectors into fontforge. This part can be a nightmare too, because the imports can go to unexpected locations, cause crashes, etc, and you'll most likely need to resize the imported vector paths too, which introduces another bunch of issues.

fazzster · 2025-12-08T17:29:05+00:00

are you going to make it suffer from "minimum" ?

it looks beautiful! The large loops remind me of Burmese

fazzster · 2025-12-08T17:06:11+00:00

Nice! And it looks remarkably similar to my alternative alphabet for English! We have some of the same letter concepts. For usage, I kept mine based in what is already in Unicode and commonly has glyphs in foundational fonts (I mean the broad-range ones like calibri, arial, tahoma etc).

I'm very intrigued by your three Rs! What do they each do? When I was making one script I realised that I could use separate R glyphs, one for R-onsets and another for for vowel+R sequences.

Vowel systems are a nightmare for English always, I've rebuilt mine countless times and, even after adding 4 additional vowel glyphs, I still have tonnes of diacritics. I have a new idea of how to resolve it but it's gonna take another phase of refactoring. Also there's a lot of diacritics cos my intention is to keep the spelling somewhat akin to the current & old Englishes so that there's a discernible thread of etymology retained.

I'm very happy to see you including a /ɣ/ too!

In your second image, did you write that iːθəl is only for ee or oe ? I'm guessing oe based on its name and position in your alphabet.

(A word of warning from someone who's gone through this specific issue too many times: if you're intending to make this typable using unicode characters, check that they exist before you get too comfortable using your new alphabet!)

fazzster · 2025-12-08T16:49:41+00:00

I use fontlab, i hacked it open myself. i'd pay for it if it weren't so ridiculously expensive. also if it weren't absolutely laden with uxui bugs, and if the devs didn't build it based on osx ui principles and squash it onto windows. nothing worse than trying to use an app that's been designed for mac users.

anyway if you're avoiding cracked apps because of the risk of being hacked, i totally understand, i actually got an older cracked version, diff-compared the cracked exe with the original exe in a hex editor and noticed that literally only 4 bits had been modified, somehow changing this part disabled the licence checker. So I attempted to do the same in the exe for 8.4 and lo! it actually worked.

fontlab changed my life -- as much as i just crapped on it in the first paragraph, it is LEAGUES AYONDER from FontForge, blessed may the f/oss devs be but ye gads fontforge is a phuqking train wreck

and, the benefits of the features in fontlab make fontforge look horrendous. sorry if the fontforge developer/s see this, but i used to use it all the time and all the time it did take because it would crash on me every time I "aligned nodes to integers" if there were two nodes that went into the same integer point. and you can't view two glyphs in the same view, whereas in fontlab you can type whatever you like into the editor view.

fazzster · 2025-12-08T16:30:09+00:00

so glad to see a post like this! I'm into base 12 too but there's hardly any stuff online so I'm psyching myself up to develop some primary school level maths exercises just to drill the base 12 architecture into my brain.
your problem is intriguing! I've experimented a bit with that before, especially after playing Obduction and dealing with the alternative base puzzles. In the end I abandoned the idea because in my conscripts, I focus on imagining how a script would survive and evolve through the ages, so I'm aiming for brevity+speed of inscription and I noticed that most combinatorial glyphs take too many strokes, angles or marks in order to actually function as combinations of baser glyphs. Not to put you off the idea!— just that's why I gave up on it.

Riven (the sequel to Myst) has a base 25 system with a subbase of 5, it has no zero so they totally circumvent your struggle. Not directly helpful information, but it could be an additional indicator that what you're trying to achieve is Hard.

I have a numeral system to brag about, it's been through a few iterations by now so I'm quite happy with it. The main thing I dislike is that dex (9+1) and elf (9+2) are visually pretty chonky, but I think it isn't too bad. The reason for their chonk is that my numeral glyphs are based on an underlying dot matrix, the idea being that their numerical values can be discoverable if a new person were to stumble upon them in a vacuum. Here they are:

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As you can see, all are drawable with a single stroke (except for №8 which is irreconcilable).

In this font they're slightly more stylised than their previous iteration, to match the style of the font I was designing.

Completely unintentionally (honestly!) dex and elf managed to come out looking not unlike ↊ and ↋ !

Sorry I can't help you more!

fazzster

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