Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType

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Last updated: May 10, 2010 Freeware

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These tools are used for in-house development of new Adobe OpenType fonts. #Font Development Kit #OpenType font creator #Font builder #OpenType #Font #Development kit

Description

This release of the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) contains the set of tools used by the Adobe Type Department to make OpenType fonts. These command-line programs that will allow you to build an OpenType font from an existing font, verify the contents of the font, and proof the font on screen or on paper.

The AFDKO also contains useful technical documentation and some of the source material required to produce OpenType fonts, as well as instructions on how to create and structure this source material for your own font production work.

Note! Although the FDK directory tree contains a number of Python scripts, none of them can be used by double-clicking on them; they can only be successfully called from the command-line. Most of the scripts now have an OpenSource license, so that you alter them as you like.

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What's new in Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType 2.5 Build 21898:

autohint:
Fixed rare case when an rrcurveto is preceded by such a long list of rlineto's that the stack limit is passed.
Fixed to restore font.pfa output file to StandardEncoding Encoding vector. Since requirements of CFF StandardEncoding differs from Type1 StandardEncoding, a StandardEncoding Encoding vector in a Type 1 font was somtines getting converted to a custom Encoding vecotr when being round-tripped through the CFF format which autohint does internally.

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