DK Sharing: Fontographer 5.0 (MacOSX) FULL VERSION

With Fontographer 5, it's easy to design new typefaces and to customize existing fonts, and the result will be high-quality fonts that can reliably work across different operating systems.

Create new fonts
Customize existing fonts, add extra characters
Fine-tune spacing and kerning
Fix problems in bad fonts
Convert old fonts to a new format

Main Features

Open and generate Type 1, TrueType, OpenType, Type 3 and Multiple Master fonts
Exchange working files with FontLab Studio, TypeTool or ScanFont using the FontLab VFB format
Copy-paste or import outline artwork or bitmap images (with customizable autotracing)
View all of your font’s characters in the Font Window
Examine or modify the font encoding
Design or change any character in the Glyph Window
Edit metrics and kerning in the Metrics Window
Easily set up and modify technical font parameters, font naming and linespacing settings in a comprehensive Font Info dialog
Automatically improve the font’s screen quality using sophisticated autohinting algorithms

WHAT'S NEW

Version 5.0:

New: Glyph antialiasing (smoothing) in all application windows
Improved: Glyph window zoom level up to 1600%
Improved: Radically redesigned and updated, easy-to-use Font Info dialog for editing the relevant technical parameters for all font formats, including OpenType, with updated, intelligent, automatic generation of OpenType-compatible font family naming and of cross-plattform linespacing values
New: Powerful Spotlight-like glyph search feature that allows you to quickly highlight or select glyphs based on the Unicode codepoint, glyph name or Unicode character name (including wildcards)
New: Easy access to the unencoded glyphs (OpenType alternates) using the FontLab prefix convention
Improved: Metrics and kerning editing in the Metrics Window
Improved: Manual editing of Type 1 hints

Font formats and international support:

New: Font generator and reader for OpenType fonts (both PS/.otf and TT/.ttf flavor) with 20,000+ glyphs
New: Reads Mac Type 1 font suitcases (FFIL), Mac datafork suitcases (.dfont) and TrueType Collections (.ttc)
Improved: Opening and generation of Type 1 fonts, using cutting-edge FontLab technology
Improved: Full Unicode compatibility (fonts and user interface), including support for the Unicode Standard version 5.2
New: OpenType Layout features can be defined using the most recent Adobe FDK for OpenType (AFDKO) version 2.5 syntax
New: Modern OpenType-compatible encodings and a full set of international encodings
New: Support for OpenType digital signatures (DSIG)
New: Reads and exports the FontLab VFB format for easy integration into a FontLab-based workflow
New: Great screen font quality thanks to the integrated Adobe PostScript autohinter and the excellent FontLab TrueType autohinter
New: Integrated Adobe Type 1 and Microsoft TrueType rasterizers for high-quality bitmap generation from hinted outlines, and the ability to export the bitmaps in BDF format

Operating system and application support:

Improved: Runs natively on Mac OS X (universal binary), Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
Improved: Copy-paste and import-export of Illustrator and Freehand outline artwork
Improved: Copy-paste and import bitmap images for autotracing

...plus countless additional improvements and bug fixes. This is the release that the font software community has been waiting for more than a decade!

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Release Name: Fontographer 5.0 (3819) [Full]