FontLab Studio is a next-generation and easy to use professional font editor for Mac and Windows users.
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.
FontLab Studio is a complete, commercial quality font editor. It imports/exports both TrueType and Type 1 fonts and edits both formats in their native form. Allows manual and automatic hinting and kerning. Can create multiple master fonts with up to 4 axes. Has extensive language and encoding support.
Here are some key features of "FontLab Studio":
· Import formats: PC/Mac Type 1, PC/Mac TrueType, EPS (Only the Mac version can import and export Mac format fonts), OpenType (both types), up to 64000 characters
· Export Formats: PC/Mac Type 1, PC/Mac TrueType, EPS (Only the Mac version can import and export Mac format fonts), OpenType (both types), up to 6400 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, Undo (100+ levels), Sketch, Knife, Magic Wand, Rotate, Skew, Scale, Intersect Contours
· Filters: Bold, Outline, Sidebearings Control, Scale, Slant, Rotate, Autohint, and many more -- all programmable and applicable font wide (You can program sequences of filters and apply them to any range of characters, including the whole font or set of fonts). Macro-based filters: Digital, Shadow, Bevel, Drops, Slices, Mosaic
· Windows: Glyph, Font chart, Preview/Kerning/Metrics, Preview, OpenType, Classes, Map, Macro Editor, OpenType Sample, Anchors
· Encoding: Unicode, Custom, ANSI, ASCII, and virtually all known codepages and encodings, Chinese, Japanese and Korean double-byte codepages
· Printouts: Character, Preview, Font Table, Kerning,Glyph Properties, Waterfall Preview.
Limitations:
· Save fonts: only 20 glyphs can be saved
· Export: 50% of glyphs are modified (FL logo is embedded)
· Metrics: export of metrics files is disabled
· EPS: export is disabled
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· 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: "modified" attribute has been added to Glyph class. It is set to 1 when a glyph has unsaved modifications (which is also indicated in the user interface by a black bar on top of the glyph cell in the glyph window).
