FontLab Studio is a professional font editor for advanced typography. It can import and export TrueType, Type 1, and OpenType fonts. It has extensive glyph drawing and editing tools, advanced metrics, Multiple Master and font transformation features. A font manipulation macro language is included, as is an OpenType feature editor. FontLab supports virtually all font encodings and codepages and can import/export fonts with up to 6400 characters.
With FontLab you can:
Design new fonts
Automatically or manually hint and kern your fonts
Add ligatures, old style figures, fractions, currency symbols and foreign characters to your fonts
Incorporate all characters into OpenType features with automatic substitution
Make your own dingbat or clipart fonts
Make font variations with the transformation tools
Print font reference tables
Rearrange and rename your font's characters
Make Multiple master fonts
Convert fonts between Adobe Type 1, TrueType and OpenType formats
Edit fonts with up to 100,000 glyphs with support for 2-byte encodings
View large fonts in a special Font Map window.
Use the Python macro language to create your own scripts for batch editing of characters or fonts
Knife tool - slice and dice your contours, even leave open ends.
Magic wand - select only the segments you want.
Shaped brushes - no more boring brush strokes! Choose from a variety of different shapes.
VectorPaint tools - paint like a bitmap but create vector outlines.
Also new in version 5-
New metrics window - easier to navigate, faster to use.
Unicode 4.1 support
Python 2.4 support
Autotracing
Five new print modes

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