Prepaid rental starts at US$9.99 for 24 hours. *) Microsoft Windows XP or newer is required. For most recent news about our apps, visit our news section.Use Fontlab font converter software online With FontLab 8, users can create, open, modify, draw, space, kern, hint and export desktop, web, color and variable OpenType fonts. Several years in the making, FontLab 8 is an integrated font editor for macOS and Windows that helps users create fonts from start to finish, from a simple design to a complex project, and brings a spark of magic into type design. released FontLab 8, the biggest upgrade to the professional font editor to date. released FontLab 7, a follow-up to FontLab VI with over 250 new features and hundreds of improvements.

released updates to FontLab Studio 5, Fontographer 5 and TypeTool 3. released FontLab VI, a complete rewrite of the flagship font editing and creation application, and a follow-up to the hugely popular FontLab Studio 5. released FontLab Pad, a free app that allows Mac OS X and Windows users to use multicolor fonts. In 2003–2004, a series of major updates to FontLab’s products were released: FontLab 4.6, ScanFont 4 for Mac and BitFonter 2 for Mac. (The AsiaFont Studio functionality is now included in FontLab VI.)Īlmost simultaneously TransType 2 for Windows, and TypeTool 2 for Windows (also with CJKV) were finished and released. In December 2001, after 3 years of incubation, FontLab 4 for Windows was released with the first OpenType font editing capability.Īfter extensive consultation with Asian customers and typographers, Fontlab developed and released (in March 2002) AsiaFont Studio for Windows, a new product that combined most of the features of FontLab 4 and FontLab Composer and added many new capabilities to make CJKV font editing faster and easier. In October 2001 Fontlab also announced the new Photofont technology, a non-proprietary XML-based specification which allowed users to create text-searchable bitmap fonts for web sites (Photofont is now an interchange format for color OpenType font creation).

In 1996 Pyrus released two new products: FontLab Composer, a multilingual, multi-platform (Windows, OS/2) international font editor with most of the features of FontLab plus the ability to edit and manipulate CID-keyed fonts of the very large Chinese, Korean, and Japanese character sets and SigMaker, a simple utility that could add a signature (or vectorized version of any bitmap image) to a TrueType font in only a few steps. Pyrus retained Yuri Yarmola, head of the original programming group, to continue development of FontLab and related products. All the rights to FontLab were sold to Pyrus and the SoftUnion programming team. In 1995 SoftUnion decided to divest itself of its software business in order to concentrate on hardware. Both apps were introduced in 1994 and bundled with FontLab 2.5. Users were empowered in other areas by ScanFont, a program to help them convert scanned images into font, and FindFont, a utility to find fonts with particular characteristics on the user's hard disk.

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