This user guide is updated continuously, and the public version is automatically updated daily from our internal sources.

If you encounter a printed version, be aware that the online version is likely newer-and also hyperlinked.Įverybody should read the FontLab VI User Interface article, particularly to learn about how to manipulate FontLab VI’s Panels, and how we differentiate between tapping versus holding keys for tools keyboard shortcuts. The Release Notes page contains release notes of the public builds. Preface »įontLab VI is a professional font editor for Mac and Windows. We took FontLab Studio 5 and did a total rewrite from the ground up. Although some underlying FontLab Studio code and functions remain, FontLab VI is largely a brand-new application. It incorporates our favorite things from Fontographer, like the bold algorithm, and borrows conceptually from the very best implementations to make improvements, like in our Pen tool. You can edit glyphs in isolation much like before, or in the context of other glyphs, and the tools and interface are more powerful and flexible now. In FontLab VI, we let you choose how you want to work, instead of us telling you that there is only one way to do things. The application is more streamlined and automatic, and gets out of your way as a designer to leave you free to design. The paint-bucket tool, smart corners, genius points, and several other innovations in the application were born out of this line of thinking.įile compatibility with FontLab Studio 5. Updated, modern interface » Retina compatibility » Full cross-platform development » vfb for most files, including the open and export features (Exception: can’t save MM files back to Studio 5).

Now our users can run FontLab VI on both Mac and Windows easily, and the two platforms are permanently in sync.

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