TypeTool

New Features

• Knife tool - slice and dice your contours, even leave open ends.
• Magic wand - select only the segments you want.
• Shaped brushes - no more boring brush strokes! Choose from a variety of different shapes.
• VectorPaint tools - paint like a bitmap but create vector outlines.
• New metrics window - easier to navigate, faster to use.
• Expanded encodings and Unicode codepages - covering virtually every language in the world.

Features

• Make new fonts
• Automatically or manually hint and kern your fonts
• Add ligatures, old style figures, fractions, currency symbols, correct em dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks and foreign characters to your fonts
• Make your own dingbat or clipart fonts
• Make font variations with the new transformation tools
• Print font reference tables
• Rearrange and rename your font's characters
• Make custom end-of-story markers for your newsletter
• Convert fonts between Adobe Type 1 and TrueType formats
• Edit fonts with up to 65,000 glyphs with support for 2-byte encodings
• Special Font Map window for large fonts.

Benefits

Import formats: Type 1, TrueType, OpenType (TrueType-based only), EPS

Export Formats: Type 1, TrueType, OpenType (TrueType-based only), EPS

Tools/operations: Draw, Erase, Rotate, Skew, Zoom, Insert Node, Remove Overlap, Merge Contours, Intersect Contours, Snap to Guides, Meter, Autohint, Remove hints, Decompose, Knife, Magic wand select, Add corner, Add curve, Add tangent, Brush, Pen, Line, Text, Rectangle, Ellipse, Transformation (8 filters), Undo (200 levels),

Windows: Glyph Edit, Font Table, Font Info Editor, Preview/Kerning/Metrics, Font Map, context sensitive popup menus and property windows

Encoding: 12 encodings supported including Mac Roman, Imported, Adobe Standard, Adobe Symbol, Windows ANSI; 150+ supported codepages including 2-byte Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Printouts: Character, Preview, Font Table

System Req.

Hardware requirements:
64MB RAM, SVGA Monitor, Mouse

Software requirements:
For Windows version: Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP).
For Mac version: Mac OS 9.2+ with CarbonLib 1.6+ or Mac OS X (10.3 or higher recommended).