FONTLAB TYPETOOL 3 REVIEW FULL
FONTLAB TYPETOOL 3 REVIEW PC

Font hinting is top of the 'todo' list, so will most likely be available in a later release. Some users may miss Font Hinting, or perhaps Macintosh or Type One Postscript support. This responsiveness of the Program's author makes me confident that Font Creator will continue to improve with each new release. Any reported bugs are usually fixed within days, and useful suggestions to enhance the program often get incorporated with the next release.

FONTLAB TYPETOOL 3 REVIEW FULL

The trial version is the full Professional Edition. to make ? from A and E.Įven users of the 30-day trial version can benefit from the excellent online help forum, where the program's author looks in regularly to solve problems that other users cannot.

The professional edition automates operations like making an oblique, bold,> or light version of a font in one simple operation, inserting whole character sets with the correct character mappings, completing composites like ? from ? and a, and combining contours together, e.g.

FONTLAB TYPETOOL 3 REVIEW PC

It will run on a Windows 95 Pentium PC with 32 Mbytes of RAM (64 Mb recommended). In spite of its power, Font Creator's needs are modest. The Home Edition includes all of the controls over font metrics that the professional edition does, so you can set the height and weight of strikeout and underlining, for example, or adjust the angle of the text cursor for italic fonts. Just to test how stable it is, I dragged 123 fonts (5.24 Mb) from Windows Explorer into Font Creator, and it opened them all without a hiccough. One had to export one character at a time! It did not support underlining, kerning, composite characters, or Unicode.įont Creator 5 will open huge Unicode fonts, very seldom crashes (never say never), and can save a large font in seconds. Corel Draw 3.0 had an export filter for TTF. Fontographer is currently $349.00 and Fontlab is $549.00. I first started font editing when Corel Draw 3.0 was reduced to ?150 after the release of Corel Draw 4.0, so $99 is very little money for such a powerful program. Even the Home Edition is a professional quality program, not a hastily thought out utility for messing about with fonts. Both editions offer extensive control over Truetype Fonts for Windows, and can import scanned images, or images from the Windows clipboard, converting them into vector outlines. The Home Edition is adequate for new users, while the Professional edition offers greater automation. The Home Edition costs $65.00(US) and the Professional Edition costs $99.00(US).

Font Creator version 5.0 for Windows is available in two editions.

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