Excerpts from his blog: Currently, if I want a simple and accurate representation of the contents of a TrueType or OpenType font, and possibly to edit the info, I have been using the wondrous open source TTX tool, which is based on the FontTools library. Thomas Phinney compares small font editing tasks in truetype and opentype fonts, and looks at four options: TTX (free), Adobe's OT FDK (free, admittedly less handy than TTX in his own words), DTL OTMaster (commercial and similar to TTX) and FontLab Studio 5. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on The integrated automatic conversion, Bizet drawing tools, mixing and merging of fonts, Unicode and OpenType support, and auto-tip are also improved.Comparing TTX, OTFDK, DTL OTMaster and FontLab Studio 5 New tools have been added to allow font designers to see glyphs on a two-dimensional page, rather than on a horizontal line. According to the developers, this version is mainly focused on 'design in context'. The current version of FontLab Studio is significantly improved compared to previous versions of the program. The application is equipped with a built-in font viewer and font editor, has a huge number of filters and tools.

You can also import vector fonts created in Adobe Illustrator in EPS, AI, BMP and TIFF formats. FontLab Studio supports such common font formats as TrueType, OpenType, TrueType AAT, ASCII/Unix Type 1, Mac TrueType and many others. The program allows you to create your own fonts and edit the existing ones in different formats required by the user. The application allows you to create high quality fonts professionally and is used by many computer designers, graphic studios, printers, and all those people whose direct work is professionally related to fonts.

It is used by such well-known companies as Apple, Adobe, IBM, Bitstream, Linotype, Monotype, Microsoft and many others. FontLab Studio - a program that is designed to edit fonts at a professional level.

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