FontLab Studio 5: Now for Mac OS X and Windows!
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For Immediate Release
Monday, December 12, 2005
Contact: Ted Harrison
Fontlab Ltd.
136 E 8th St., Port Angeles WA 98362, USA
Tel: +1 (509) 272-3260
contact@fontlab.com
Port Angeles, WA, USA – December 12, 2005.
Fontlab Ltd. announces the release of FontLab Studio 5 for Mac OS X.
Following the release of FontLab Studio 5 for Windows in September 2005, Fontlab Ltd. now announces the availability of the next-generation professional font editor for Mac OS X. As a major upgrade of its predecessor FontLab 4.6, FontLab Studio 5 is a comprehensive solution for font foundries, professional type designers, typographers and graphic design studios, allowing them to design type, create, manipulate and modify fonts. FontLab Studio 5 supports all major outline font formats, including Type 1, TrueType, Multiple Master and OpenType.
“The major focus of this release has been put on in-context type design,” said Yuri Yarmola, Vice President R&D at Fontlab Ltd. and the application’s principal engineer. “Our new metrics and kerning editing environment adds a second dimension to the process of letterspacing by allowing the type designer to see the glyphs not only in a horizontal string but on a true two-dimensional page. The new neighbor and shape groups layers add another dimension to the process of glyph design by dynamically previewing related characters right in the glyph editing window.”
According to Yarmola, practically every aspect of the application has been revised. “It was the users who shaped the development of the application. More than 90% of the changes in FontLab Studio 5 are based directly on customer feedback,” says Yarmola. The highlights of FontLab Studio 5 also include:
-> new improved proofing and printing,
-> improved Bézier drawing tools,
-> integrated autotracing (formerly only available in ScanFont, a separate product),
-> improved font merging and blending,
-> better OpenType and Unicode support,
-> better autohinting,
-> improved Python scripting support
As well as hundreds of other improvements. FontLab Studio 5 retails at US$649.00 with attractive upgrade pricing available to users of previous versions as well as of Fontographer and TypeTool, the company’s other font editors. Visit the FontLab Studio 5 page at http://www.fontlab.com/studio/ for more details.
About Fontlab Ltd.
Fontlab Ltd. has stayed at the forefront of digital font management by remaining devoted to developing font editors and typography products. Their full line of products is dedicated to solving the most complex typography issues. These products include: AsiaFont Studio™, BitFonter™, FogLamp™, FontLab™, FontLab™ Studio, Fontographer™, ScanFont™, TypeTool™, TransType™, FontFlasher™, FONmaker™, SigMaker™ and CompoCompiler™. All products from Fontlab Ltd. carry a 60-day satisfaction guarantee. More information on all Fontlab products can be seen at www.fontlab.com.
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12.Dec.2005 2.43pm
I am on my way to upgrade now. Be back shortly!
ChrisL
12.Dec.2005 3.04pm
I just bought it. Now I only have to wait forthe serial numbers via e-mail:-)
ChrisL
12.Dec.2005 3.07pm
Chris,
Couldn’t wait, could you? Have fun exploring! ;-)
12.Dec.2005 3.44pm
Hi Lauri,
You may have a moth in your icon but I had ants in my pants :-)
ChrisL
12.Dec.2005 5.10pm
Chris,
I’m on a PC so I could’ve had FL5 a while ago, but I don’t have much talent for type design (yet), so I’m sticking with TypeTool. Your typefaces look really great, but you know that already. :-)
12.Dec.2005 5.20pm
Thanks Lauri!
ChrisL
17.Jul.2008 8.03am
I Want ScanFont 5 FullVersion and I cant Buy it . Please Help Me . Download it on an server for me and insert link .
17.Jul.2008 9.42am
Can’t you wait till it’s Christmas?
17.Jul.2008 10.09am
I want a new VW Passat and I can’t buy it. Please help me! Could someone put one in the parking lot outside my apartment building and leave the keys in the ignition?
17.Jul.2008 10.26am
Hey Dan, I want a trip to Europe and can’t afford it. Would you send me tickets and hotel? I’ll trade you my 1990 Nissan Sentra :-)
ChrisL
17.Jul.2008 11.15am
Chris, I have great news! I found a way to cut your hotel costs. I just asked my wife ... You can stay as long as you like in her atelier in our back garden.
Oh ... and Dan, if you wished for a(ny) car ... would you seriously want a VW Passat?
17.Jul.2008 11.20am
Well, it is too big for my needs now. But I think it is the best European family car on the road, certainly. I guess if I were to get one now, it would only be because I’d be planning ahead. But I’m not and I’m not, so…
17.Jul.2008 11.34am
Just kidding Dan. I’ve had two VW’s for a company car for about 7 years and I liked driving them and use them as a family car in the weekend.
17.Jul.2008 6.45pm
Wow. Fontlab or Passat?
I did have a Nissan Sentra 97, awesome little car. I come all the way down from Albany to Orlando fully loaded at a 100 miles average (1400 miles). My cat was having the biggest fun of his life.
The VW Passat is the best buy for a family guy. Expensive buy but in the long run it is the best. Now, I sold out the Nissan 2 years ago and got myself on a VW New Beattle, it is ... lead color (silver) and it is a biggest fun on the highway, quick, smart and if you want to make a party, its got the best monsoon sound system, which I use very loud, mostly Opera!
As for Fontlab, I waited and waited and waited until I got a second hand copy of Fog ( Macromedia Studio : 30 bucks ).
Lovin it !
Cheers
André
ps.: http://www.vw.com/newbeetle/en/us
17.Jul.2008 7.02pm
André,
I used to blast “Don Carlo” or “Tosca” full blast out of my old Sentra until someone stole my CD player from it.
ChrisL
17.Jul.2008 7.04pm
Jos,
Thank your wife for me! I am nowhere near close to having enough for airfare so I won’t be able to take you up on your generous offer.
ChrisL
18.Jul.2008 5.30am
Chris, sorry for that sire. If you still get the radio in the car, the one that takes K7s, you could get a cheap external CD players with a K7 adapter and bingo : Turandot ( Nessum Dorma ) Music to your Bs (ears ). That is what I had in the Sentra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONUCPKdGcrk
18.Jul.2008 9.12am
Thank’s André! The radio is gone too and the window was smashed in to boot. I figured parking an old beat-up car at a Metro station was safe but they passed up the nice BMW next to me and picked on my car. Drug addicts just have no taste these days! They did get my favorite Boheme recording, also with Pavoratti.
Thanks for the link!
ChrisL