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FontLab Studio 5.2 for Windows

FontLab Studio 5.2 for Windows with new features (create OpenType fonts with up to 65,535 glyphs, improved OpenType generation through FEA syntax 2.5, interpolated nodes, OpenType Layout features in Metrics Window, class kerning overlay preview, new Change Weight and Clean Up Paths operations, MM glyph blend preview, canvas notes, Python 2.7, improved user interface) and hundreds of bugfixes.

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 5.0 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 IkarusA 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

FontLab Studio 5 is our next-generation professional font editor for Mac and 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.

Major New Features

Improved OpenType generation
Adobe FDK for OpenType (AFDKO) version 2.5 is integrated, and the 6,400 glyph limit is removed. FLS can now save and generate fonts with up to 65,635 glyphs.

Interpolated Nodes
Contour / Interpolate / Horizontal and Vertical enables and disables the ?interpolated? state of a node (in X and Y separately). The position of an interpolated node will change accordingly if nodes between which an interpolated node is located are moved.

Class Kerning Overlay Preview
All class members being overlaid semi-transparently on top of each other for the active kerning pair in the Metrics Window / Kerning mode if Tools / Options / Metrics window / Show all kerning class members for selected pair is enabled.

OpenType Layout-aware Metrics Window
New setting in the Metrics window toolbar is available: Process Features. If enabled, OpenType Layout substitutions are performed to the text entered in the Metrics Window depending on the features enabled in the OpenType Preview panel. For example, if you type in ?Hello? in the Metrics window, switch to the Metrics mode, in the OpenType Preview panel enable the ?smcp? feature, then the Metrics window will show the glyphs ?/H/e.sc/l.sc/l.sc/o.sc?. Works in the Metrics In the Preview, Metrics and Kerning mode of the Metrics window. OpenType Layout features must be compiled using the Compile button in the OpenType panel for this to work.

Note: FontLab Studio 5 can directly create OpenType Layout tables for non-complex scripts. OpenType Layout tables required for complex scripts such as Arabic, Devanagari or Thai can be added with the free Microsoft VOLT application.

Software Requirements:

For Windows version: Microsoft Windows (2000/XP/Vista/7, 32-bit or 64-bit). Windows XP SP2 or better with Python 2.4 recommended.

Hardware Requirements:

64MB RAM, SVGA Monitor, Mouse