December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Chapter 6: Font Formats, Glyph Sets, and Font Tools
FontLab Studio provides full support for OpenType layout features, specically those
specied in the ‘GPOS’ and ‘GSUB’ tables. is allows developers to build feature-rich
OpenType fonts. is is yet another reason why FontLab Studio is considered one of the
best, if not the best, outline font editors available today.
Outline Font Editors for Larger Fonts
e outline font editors described in the previous section are limited in that they can cre-
ate only single-byte–encoded fonts, or have a severe limit in terms of the maximum num-
ber of glyphs. As glyph design tools, they are of commercial quality. In fact, I had been a
devoted Fontographer user for many years, and now use FontLab Studio for much of my
work. Do not, however, underestimate the usefulness of these outline font editors: glyph
design is completely independent from the ability to create multiple-byte– or Unicode-
encoded fonts. Luckily, at least one such font editor is nally available: AsiaFont Studio.
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TTEdit is a comparable TrueType editor for Windows, and the same soware developer
also make OTEdit for Mac OS X and Windows.
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AsiaFont Studio was originally called FontLab Composer, and allowed users to build
CID-keyed fonts; that is, fonts that contained thousands of characters, and were genuine
multiple-byte–encoded CJKV fonts! is was a b ...
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