I made the jump from Fontographer after 6 years to Font Lab primarily for the Mac OSX compatibility. However, I have since found Font Lab to be a far more powerful program but one with a steep learning curve. If for no other reason, try out Font Lab for its OpenType support.

With Macromedia continually referring to a Fontographer update as being "on hold" I felt I had to move on.

I believe Font Lab is still avaialbe to registered users of Fontographer for a significant discount (it was in January when I got mine).

I am in the redraw/metrics stage of my first typeface with Font Lab, so I'm still a newbie with it. Others might have more info.

Eduard:

The most basic steps for doing this in Fontographer are:

1) Open the PostScript file in Fontographer
2) Import the metrics from either the bitmap suitcase or the AFM file
3) Generate a Windows PostScript file

There may be some changes needed to the font family and style information in order for multiple weights to appear under Windows as a unified family, but this will depend on the typefaces you are working with.

That's about it, really...