... and the application’s principal engineer. “Our new metrics and kerning editing environment adds a second dimension to the process ... proofing and printing, -> improved Bézier drawing tools, -> integrated autotracing (formerly only available in ScanFont, a ...

News - Miss Tiffany - 12 Dec 2005 - 3:38pm - 18 comments - 0 attachments

... The bitmaps are stored in sbit tables, with optional width metrics for printing using a PostScript printer’s built-in outlines. There are tools which facilitate moving the bitmap data back and forth between the ...

Forum topic - Jared Benson - 8 Feb 2006 - 12:31am - 92 comments - 0 attachments

... collected serious data yet (I need to code up some tools to extract spacing from scans), but from eyeballing the ATF books, ... eyes, at 12pt, Adobe Caslon Std looks just fine with the metrics, or with no kerning at all (the metrics call for -5 on the ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 2:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments

... all upper and lower case glyphs created. I have set the metrics for each of these so the default spacing is pretty good. There are ... too. Are they being flagged by Font Audit? c Tools> Kerning Assistance> Tools> Kerning Assistance> Apply and ...

Forum topic - heners - 16 Apr 2006 - 11:23am - 28 comments - 0 attachments

... you cannot SEE the kerning for the dependent glyphs in the Metrics Window. So if you preview the “/a/c” pair in FontLab ... applied, you need to build the “kern” feature (Tools / Kerning Assistance / Apply and Save), then “Compile” the ...

Forum topic - silas - 23 Nov 2005 - 6:30pm - 36 comments - 0 attachments

... which only indicated a few flat spots. are there any other tools or methods for checking my outlines? i understand that once a path is ... in to a new vfb file. See if that works. The import the metrics. Oh, and you need more than just the kern feature. (Build) ...

Forum topic - tylerg - 5 Apr 2006 - 12:48pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... V4 system represents the high end of the font production tools. It is still under development at URW++ and also available for Mac OS X / ... at one hand and the character naming, Unicode numbering, metrics and naming information at the other hand, which finds its origin in the ...

Forum topic - londontype - 7 Feb 2006 - 9:59am - 13 comments - 0 attachments

... design is an intellectual rather than a manual job, the tools don’t directly influence the forms, it’s more to do with what ... into differences of stroke weight, contrast, x-height, metrics, trapping, character, character set, OTF features, etc. So far, we have ...

Forum topic - Eric_West - 15 Dec 2005 - 1:09pm - 31 comments - 0 attachments

... Thank you Adam. another question: where’s: Tools > Transform —> Select an action: Check the Glyph window ... worked. An external list could be used the same way as the metrics strings, where you can choose them from a pop-up menu. Anyway, this ...

Forum topic - twardoch - 12 Dec 2005 - 3:29pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... bug fixes Huzzah. http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/Fontographer/ ‹ Happy Birthday Hermann Zapf Misnomers › ... change tool, change tool, change tool. 5. Fog’s metrics window knew that the baseline was not ness., in fact it’s a ...

Forum topic - Grant Hutchinson - 27 Nov 2005 - 9:33pm - 84 comments - 0 attachments