FontLab Studio

Professional font editor

Published By:

FontLab Ltd.

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Product Information

FontLab Studio is the next-generation professional font editor for Mac and Windows. Used by Adobe, Apple, Bitstream, IBM, Linotype, Microsoft, Monotype, Morisawa and almost every other major font foundry in the world, it is the comprehensive solution for font foundries, professional type designers, typographers and graphic design studios, allowing them to design typefaces and create or modify fonts. FontLab Studio supports all major outline font formats, including Type 1, TrueType, Multiple Master and OpenType.

Features

Import formats: OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Win Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm/.afm), ASCII/Unix Type 1 (.pfa + .afm), Mac Type 1 (.hqx, .bin), Mac TrueType (.hqx, .bin, .dfont), TrueType AAT (.ttf, .dfont), Win Multiple Master (.pfb + .mmm), FontLab 2.5 (.vfa), FontLab 3.0-4.6 (.vfb), Ikarus (.ik), BDF Bitmap (.bdf), Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai, .eps); up to 64,000 characters

Export Formats: OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Win Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm/.afm), ASCII/Unix Type 1 (.pfa + .afm), Win Multiple Master (.pfb + .mmm), Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai + .eps); up to 6,400 characters

Tools: Draw, Erase, VectorPaint, Mirror, Composite, Set Startpoint, Interpolate, Envelope, Remove Overlap, Merge Contours, Subtract Contours, Snap to Guides, Check Connections, Nodes at Extremes, Meter, TrueType and Type 1 manual hinting (with Flex), Undo (100+ levels), Sketch, Knife, Magic Wand, Rotate, Skew, Scale, Intersect Contours

Filters: Actions: Bold, Outline, Sidebearings Control, Scale, Slant, Rotate, Autohint etc. Python-based filters: Digital, Shadow, Bevel, Drops, Slices, Mosaic. All filters can be applied on one or many glyphs. Actions can be also applied on multiple fonts at a time.

Windows: Document Windows: Font, Glyph, Metrics; Dockable panels: Fonts, Preview/OpenType Sample/Anchors, OpenType, Class, Edit Macro, Output; Other panels: Font Map, Transformation, Editing Layers, Properties

Encoding: Unicode (up to 4.1), Custom, ANSI, ASCII, and virtually all known codepages and encodings, Chinese, Japanese and Korean double-byte codepages

Printouts: Font Table, Glyph List, Font Sample, Font Waterfall, Glyph Sample, Glyph Waterfall, Kerning Table, Quick Test

Benefits

In-context glyph design with Neighbors and Shape groups, true tangent points, color-customized and streamlined glyph window
Revolutionary new metrics and kerning editing: multiline preview, better class kerning, smart autogeneration of classes
Pixelfont support: import BDF files and make pixelfonts, built-in autotracing
Unicode 4.1 support: SMP codepoints, auto-generate over 2,500 accented characters from built-in definitions, new Unicode glyph template images (from Monotype Imaging)
Improved OpenType support with better VOLT integration, roundtrip editing of complex-script fonts, font merging, glyph suffix renaming
Opens Mac fonts on Windows (Mac Type 1, TrueType GX/AAT) and Ikarus® files
Five new printing modes, Quick Test fonts with system rendering
Open installed fonts, generate multiple fonts in one step
Redesigned preferences; save, open and exchange preference profiles and UI workspaces
Better autohinting with Flex Type 1 hints, Python 2.4 support

System Req.

Hardware requirements:
64MB RAM, SVGA Monitor, Mouse

Software requirements:
For Windows version: Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP). Windows XP SP2 with Python 2.4 recommended.
For Mac version: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher (FontLab Studio will not run on Mac OS 9).