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Fontographer Changelog

What's new in Fontographer 5.2.3 Build 4868

Dec 27, 2013
  • NEW:
  • RLM and Keyserver support for serving multiple licenses from a server. Great for computer labs!
  • Align width to grid
  • IMPROVED:
  • More flexible automatic linespacing calculation
  • Handling of OpenType kerning
  • Non-Western Type 1 and TrueType Symbol font support
  • Kerning Assistance and Metrics Assistance
  • Clipboard support and autotracing of template bitmaps
  • Hundreds of bug fixes

New in Fontographer 5.1 Build 4203 (Jul 19, 2011)

  • 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

New in Fontographer 5.0 Build 3820 (Jul 7, 2010)

  • User interface:
  • NEW! Glyph antialiasing (smoothing) in all application windows
  • IMPROVED! Glyph window zoom level up to 1600%
  • IMPROVED! Radically redesigned and updated, easy-to-use Font Info dialog for editing the relevant technical parameters for all font formats, including OpenType, with updated, intelligent, automatic generation of OpenType-compatible font family naming and of cross-plattform linespacing values
  • NEW! Powerful Spotlight-like glyph search feature that allows you to quickly highlight or select glyphs based on the Unicode codepoint, glyph name or Unicode character name (including wildcards)
  • NEW! Easy access to the unencoded glyphs (OpenType alternates) using the FontLab prefix convention
  • IMPROVED! Metrics and kerning editing in the Metrics Window
  • IMPROVED! Manual editing of Type 1 hints
  • Font formats and international support:
  • NEW! Font generator and reader for OpenType fonts (both PS/.otf and TT/.ttf flavor) with 20,000+ glyphs
  • IMPROVED! Opening and generation of Type 1 fonts, using cutting-edge FontLab technology
  • IMPROVED! Full Unicode compatibility (fonts and user interface), including support for the Unicode Standard version 5.2
  • NEW! OpenType Layout features can be defined using the most recent Adobe FDK for OpenType (AFDKO) version 2.5 syntax
  • NEW! Modern OpenType-compatible encodings and a full set of international encodings
  • NEW! Support for OpenType digital signatures (DSIG)
  • NEW! Reads and exports the FontLab VFB format for easy integration into a FontLab-based workflow
  • NEW! Great screen font quality thanks to the integrated Adobe PostScript autohinter and the excellent FontLab TrueType autohinter
  • NEW! Integrated Adobe Type 1 and Microsoft TrueType rasterizers for high-quality bitmap generation from hinted outlines, and the ability to export the bitmaps in BDF format
  • Operating system and application support:
  • IMPROVED! Copy-paste and import-export of Illustrator and Freehand outline artwork
  • IMPROVED! Copy-paste and import bitmap images for autotracing