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FontLab Studio 5.0.4 for Mac

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  • Price: Update $649.00 to buy
  • Operating system: Mac OS Classic/X 10.0/10.1/10.2/10.3/10.3.9/10.4 PPC
  • Date added: July 09, 2007
  • Total Downloads: 2,177
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From Pyrus N.A. :

  • Glyph Editor - Work with Type 1 and TrueType outlines easily and precisely.
  • Multiple Masters - Make your own multiple master fonts with up to 4 axes. Extrapolate fonts beyond original limits
  • TrueType & Type 1 Hinting - Add hints manually or automatically for beautiful screen and low-res fonts.
  • VectorPaint Tools - Perform paint operations in a vector environment
  • FontAudit Technology - Automatically checks character outline while you edit it
  • Font Metrics and Kerning - Professional metrics and kerning editor with automatic functions and full support for Multiple Master fonts.
  • Transformations - Applicable to the whole font or to selected characters
  • Unicode - Full support for Unicode encodings with multiple codepages and optional font reencoding
  • Font Header Editor - Access to all font properties, from names to supported codepages to TrueType-specific font metrics.
  • OpenType Support - Import, create, edit, export and convert OpenType fonts (TrueType or CFF-flavoured). Decompile font features to easy-to-read editable format.
  • Macro Language - A Python script interpreter inside FontLab lets you extend FontLab features infinitely. Make your own tools and plugins! Browse to the Python Page for details and demos.
  • New Outline Tools - Knife, Magic Wand, 3D Rotate, Scale and Slant... - FL4 has a whole batch of new, intuitive ways to work with glyphs. Or use the new Sketch mode to create new contours with Ikarus-like tools.
  • Customizable User Interface - from menus and keyboard shortcuts to the pictures on toolbar buttons - change the FontLab GUI to fit your needs
  • Double-byte Codepages - for Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts
  • Create Arabic and Hebrew Fonts - right-to-left writing is supported in all panels and in the Metrics editor.
  • Autogeneration of basic OpenType featurs for T1 fonts.
  • Level 2 and Level 3 EPS import/export - Makes it simple to exchange EPS files with the latest versions of AdobeÃ?â??Ã?® IllustratorÃ?â??Ã?®.
  • Improved blend algorithm - inserts fewer points; can blend composites and even hints.
  • MM-compatible Type1->TrueType conversion - speeds up creation of families of TrueType fonts.
  • TrueType hinting of Multiple Master fonts - with correct interpolation of instructions where possible.
  • Better user interface - smart panels in Macintosh version, expandable zoom panel in Windows version. Updated design of properties panel in both versions.

What's new in this version:

  • Fixed a critical bug (introduced in FontLab Studio 5.0.3) that resulted in incomplete generation of OpenType kerning (only kerning pairs that involved classes were generated, no singleton pairs).
  • Fixed a bug in handling of global guidelines.
  • Fixed a bug in handling of tangent startpoints.
  • Fixed minor bug in export of EPS files (correct date is now written).
  • A default filename is now used when EPS files are exported.
  • Python improvement: "modifi... see all new features

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