Fontographer 5.2 Build 4458
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April 3, 2012
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Description of Fontographer 5.2 Build 4458
Versatile font editor for designers. Multiple features
With Fontographer it’s easy to design new typefaces and to customize existing fonts, and the result will be high-quality fonts that can reliably work across different operating systems. Fontographer is designed in order to help you easily create new fonts, customize existing ones, add extra characters, fine-tune spacing and kerning, fix problems in bad fonts and convert old fonts to a new format. Unlike any other font editor on the market, Fontographer combines an easy, intuitive and very efficient user interface with our mature, state-of-the-art font creation technology, making it a perfect font editor for graphic designers, DTP professionals, calligraphers and type designers who do not with to dive into the technical details of font creation.
Key features
• Open and generate Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, Type 3 and Multiple Master fonts
• Exchange working files with FontLab Studio, TypeTool or ScanFont using the FontLab VFB format
• Copy-paste or import outline artwork or bitmap images (with customizable autotracing)
• View all of your font's characters in the Font Window
• Examine or modify the font encoding
• Design or change any character in the Glyph Window
• Edit metrics and kerning in the Metrics Window
• Easily set up and modify technical font parameters, font naming and line spacing settings in a comprehensive Font Info dialog
• Automatically improve the font's screen quality using sophisticated auto hinting algorithms
Editor's review for Fontographer
With many different word processing programs available people have long had access to a number of different fonts for use, ranging from the classic Times New Roman to other, stranger font styles with little actual practice use such as Wingdings (unless you intend to use specific pictures rather than text in a particular context). Still, for many professional organizations and designers these are not enough. Not satisfied with simply using what everyone else in the world has access to many design companies and corporations alike develop their own specialized font formats for use in advertising, letters, scripts and even web pages.
Of course, in many ways, designing your own font style can be quite complicated, taking into account various character designs in both capital and lower-case format as well as bold and italic in addition to any other combination of numbers or symbols that may be needed. To that end Fontographer was born - designed to make the font creation and utilization process simple and effective for everyone who needs it.
Created with the designer in mind, Fontographer allows users to modify a number of different font formats in many different styles, including Type 1, Type 3, TrueType, Multiple Master and OpenType fonts. By utilizing a number of different editing and conversion techniques, Fontographer can develop fonts for these formats from scratch or even edit existing fonts for a basis of development in order to help springboard designers on their way to making their own unique text.
Additionally, the design of Fontographer allows for any fonts being developed to quickly and easily be used with a number of other programs, including FontLab Studio, ScanFont and TypeTool using FontLab's VFB format. This means that you can take your work from one development platform to the next in the editing stage without needing to go through a complicated process of exporting any designs into a final format and re-converting them into a usable editing file that can sometimes even cost you in terms of lost information that may not transfer over perfectly from one format to the next.
Fontographer's easy to use graphical interface means that it's simple and effective to editing many different font styles within the program itself as well, bypassing the necessity many other programs to utilize some other third party graphical program in order to develop a desired format. Additionally, the built-in editing software can even handle various metrics settings, meaning that users can quickly and easily even adjust these settings without needing other specialized editing tools.
In short, if you're tired of the boring old fonts that come standard in all word processors today or simply want to make yourself stand out more with your own particular format don't feel that you're stuck with either settling for what you have or opting for much more costly and time consuming editors - get a copy of Fontographer for yourself now and start developing your own fonts today.
After all, in today's highly competitive market where design and image is key to success every little detail counts.
What is new in version 5.2 Build 4458
• NEW! OpenType Embedding Permissions and Recommendations (EPAR) table to help license and use fonts appropriately
• IMPROVED! More flexible automatic linespacing calculation
• IMPROVED! Handling of OpenType kerning
• IMPROVED! Non-Western Type 1 and TrueType Symbol font support
• NEW! Align width to grid
• IMPROVED! Kerning Assistance and Metrics Assistance
• IMPROVED! Clipboard support and autotracing of template bitmaps
• IMPROVED! Hundreds of bug fixes
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