FontLab Studio 5 updates: 5.1.5 Mac & 5.2.2 Win By on 2015-11-03 in We have officially approved the most recent v 5714 builds of FontLab Studio 5 for general release: these will be the official 5. 2 Windows releases. Compared to the previous 5. 1 releases, this fixes 40 bugs, including 24 bugs present on both platforms, 7 Mac-only issues, and 9 Windows-only issues. We strongly recommend the new versions for all 5. We also suggest them for 5. 0.x users; although there are a few bugs introduced in 5.
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2 that are not yet fixed, overall we think these versions are better than 5. 4 and earlier. Mac users, please read the release notes for install details as well! Then download:. Mac Install Info Unfortunately, due to some technical issues, the Mac installer and app are not “code-signed,” so Mac OS X sees it as coming from an “unidentified developer.” We realize this is not ideal, but we thought it would still be better to give you these bug fixes than to sit on the installer until we sort out the install issue.
Thanks for understanding. FontLab Studio Mac now has a user interface localized in seven languages! No longer just English — also French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. You can also to get a different UI language.
To launch the Mac installer (and the app) the first time, please:. Right-click (Ctrl-click) on the installer (or the installed application) in the Finder and choose “Open.”. Click on “Open” in the dialog box that appears. You’ll only need to do this once to install, and once again on the app. After this it will just launch normally. Windows Install Info & Python (Updated 14 March 2016) Since the release of 5.
2 for Windows, we have encountered an compatibility issue with the newest Python 2.X, version 2. 2 will not launch with this version of Python installed, without extra measures. There are two possible solutions, below. (Note: you do not need Python installed at all to run FontLab Studio 5; it is just that if you do have it installed, this can be an issue.). Note that it must be a 32-bit version of Python installed. FontLab Studio 5 will not work with a 64-bit Python.
( 32-bit Python will run fine on a 64-bit version of Windows. One option is to install Python 2. The other option is to do the following steps, to edit the environment variables via the System Properties dialog:. Windows Key + X. System. Advanced system settings. Environment Variables.
and add a PYTHONHOME variable with value of “C: Python 27”. Changes & Bug Fixes in 5.1.5 / 5.2.2 There was one major code change. When generating OTF fonts, we no longer use the Adobe AFDKO code to generate the name table and OS/ 2 table; instead we rely on FontLab’s own code, which was already being used for these tables in TTFs. This change yields more consistent results between TTF and OTF, ensuring user-defined info shows up in the font regardless of format, and avoids surprise default results that are not visible in the FontLab interface. Also, “language” lists were updated in “Additional OpenType names” tab of Font Info for Windows and Macintosh platforms in accordance with Bugs which were both introduced and fixed during the development of this release are not listed.
Special thanks to Lucas de Groot for reporting at least 20 of the bugs we fixed. Mac & Win dual-platform bugs. The Preview panel doesn’t update when you browse through fonts in Font Info (worked in 5. 4). Generating Unicodes using a.nam file fails on last glyph in font. Underscore char not supported in the Family Name.
Component numbering display bug. Generate Instance causes PFM Default Character field in Font Info to become empty. Pasting from MM to single master glyph pastes all masters, not just the active layer.
Bloques autocad herramientas construccion. FATAL Compiling Verdana Regular GPOS ‘kern’ feature fails (worked in 5. Thomas Phinney is CEO of FontLab. Previously he worked at Extensis (web fonts and font management tools) and Adobe (as product manager for global fonts and typography).
Thomas is also a type designer, teacher, writer, and consultant on fonts and typography. He has been consulted by Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, Oxford University Press, a “big three” US auto maker, the US Treasury Department, and PBS “History Detectives,” among others. He teaches type design with Crafting Type and has been a repeat guest lecturer for MA Typeface Design at the University of Reading. Since 2004 he has been a board member of ATypI, the international typography association.
His typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original with over 3000 glyphs per font.
Has just released FontLab Studio 5.0.4, a bugfix release available to all licensed users of FontLab Studio 5. Version 5.0.4 is free to licensed users of FontLab Studio 5. To obtain the free update, browse to our updates page and fill out the update request form. Please allow 1-2 business days for processing. A critical kerning bug introduced in the recently released 5.0.3 build has been fixed.
In addition, numerous other improvements have been made. A list of changes made in version 5.0.4 is available at: In addition, a list of changes made in previously released version 5.0.3 is available at: I recommend all users of previous builds of FontLab Studio 5 to update to version 5.0.4. This can be done by requesting a free update at: Regards, Adam Twardoch Fontlab Ltd.