FontLab Studio 5, Win
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Manufacturer FontLab
Our Part # PYR155
FontLab Studio 5 is our next-generation professional font editor for Windows. It is the comprehensive solution for font foundries, professional type designers, typographers and graphic design studios, allowing them to design type, create and modify fonts. FontLab Studio 5 supports all major outline font formats, including Type 1, TrueType, Multiple Master and OpenType.
FontLab Studio 5 is currently available for Windows only. A Mac OS version is under development. The current pro font editor for Mac OS is FontLab 4.6.
• n-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
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
700+-page manual
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.
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