FontLab Studio 5 is our 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 5 supports all major outline font formats, including Type 1, TrueType, Multiple Master and OpenType.
Some highlights from this release:
- 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 6.0 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
Changes & Bug Fixes in 5.1.5
Mac & Win dual-platform bugs
The Preview panel doesn’t update when you browse through fonts in Font Info (worked in 5.0.4)
Generating Unicodes using a .nam file fails on last glyph in font
Underscore char not supported in the Family Name
Component numbering display bug
Generate Instance causes PFM Default Character field in Font Info to become empty
Pasting from MM to single master glyph pastes all masters, not just the active layer
[FATAL] Compiling Verdana Regular GPOS ‘kern’ feature fails (worked in 5.0.4)
Underline and strikeout positions (and thickness) are changed on export to OTF
CFF subroutinization nesting problem can cause glyph rendering problems in some fonts
Disappearing outlines in one master of MM fonts
Wrong tooltips in TT Hinting Options > Zones, and top zone can’t be changed after being set
Metrics Window contextual menu issues
Blue class kerning indicators not visible in Kerning Table of Metrics Window
Metrics undo is applied only to the base component of composite glyphs
“Digital signature” and “Trace Options” sections disappear from “Preferences” (Options) dialog after performing “Reset
options to defaults” command
Slanting in the Actions dialog does not work with decimals (fractional values)
OTF only: export of “name” table loses non-ASCII characters, OS/2 table inserts default values for blanks,
Add –Regular in auto-generated PS FontName and Full Name
Using tab key between Metrics windows fields disables further glyph editing afterwards
Pasting from EPS scales inconsistently
Component shift doesn’t work in Generate Glyphs dialog
Trying to generate a font containing 65536 glyphs causes lock up instead of warning
Hidden classes sometimes get deleted during re-ordering
Mac-only issues
Font create date not editable and auto-set to current date/time in OS X 10.9+
Printing fails on OS X 10.9+ (Out of memory error)
Copy Font Info dialog: missing Select All/None buttons
Underscore and digits are not allowed in PostScript Name
Menus disappear if user chooses a Workspace with a non-ASCII character; app must be restarted with Control pressed to fix
Wrong Type 1 hinting rasterizers in Hinting Preview
Applying any saved workspace using the Window>Workspace menu shifts all toolbars
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7+
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