FontLab

center|300px|FontLab logotype FontLab An application guide. This book is about using FontLab and FontLab Studio, the Font creation tools from FontLab for both Mac and Windows. Goals The initial goal was to cover just Python scripting, but this draws on font design and production techniques, so they need a place too. Therefore this book aims to document complete and efficient howto info on all aspects of FontLab usage in production of modern fonts. FontLab supports a large range of features and font formats, so the potential scope of this book is correspondingly large. Within the Python scripting chapter, the aim is to support two learning paths: To give non-programming font designers a complete and efficient tutorial to get useful scripting work done. To give programmers who are not font designers an efficient tour of the APIs so they can write scripts for a font designer. "Efficient" covers several points: That all the materials needed are in one place, so the reader doesn't have to trawl for fragmented info (i.e. its done once here for everybody) That the material is presented in the appropriate sequence to achieve a given purpose.(need to collate a list of tutorial examples) Compatibility between versions of FontLab, Python and OS's are given, so a working combination can be assembled in every case. Application configuration (options, modes) necessary for each task are included, either for manual setup or as part of the scripting. FontLab has a large number of options and modes, some of which can affect apparently unrelated tasks or functions, so this is an important area. Chapters 0 18 July 2006 Installation where to get which bits and how to put them together 0 18 July 2006 Version history what version released when on which OS 0 18 July 2006 Configuration setup files, modes, options, etc. 0 18 July 2006 Font specification planning requirements for a font 0 18 July 2006 Font creation setting up and creating fonts from scratch 0 18 July 2006 /Multiple Masters/ setting up and creating MM Fonts 0 18 July 2006 Font editing importing and modifying existing fonts 0 18 July 2006 Font generation generating the font as a usable file 1 18 July 2006 /Scripting/ Python Scripting Further reading Python programming language FontLab Python API FontLab Forum Cascading Style Sheets/Fonts and Text Typography/Fonts LaTeX/Fonts Basic Book Design/Font Guide to X11/Fonts Using GNOME/Font Programming for Palm OS/Small fonts has close to the smallest possible font PostScript FAQ describes an even more widely-used font-oriented programming language Multimedia software Typography F 0%