Publisher's Description
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 Adobe
- 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.
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