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TypeTool - 2.0

Font editor for TrueType, Type 1, EPS fonts

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All Time:	(4.0)
Version 2.0:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	2.0
Release Date:	2003-03-29
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 2.0):	8,979
Downloads (all versions):	18,783
Price:	$99.00

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Product Description:

TypeTool is our light font editor. It does the basics quickly and easily.

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.

What's new in this version:

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.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS 9.2.x, or
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 2.0:
Overall Rating:	(4.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.0)

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Fontographer - Version: 3.0, 3/29/2007 03:51AM PST

WhiteDog

This comment list needs some updating. Fontographer became available for the Mac again over a year ago for OS X and is now at version 4.7.3. It is made by FontLab, the same company that makes TypeTool. Fontographer, however, is much more expensive. And their signature product, even more expensive, is FontLab Studio. The choice depends on your needs and your budget.

Dead? - Version: 2.0, 7/5/2004 10:48AM PST

(1 of 4 users found this comment useful)

Aretin

Fontographer still works for me.

Pietro

A good application - Version: 2.0, 6/19/2003 11:59AM PST

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Lukas Machata

Fontographer is dead, so for us "hobby" font designers TypeTool is a good way to go; the software is easy to use and the price is okay. What I didn't like was the paranoid license registration process, telling me I would recieve my serial number emailed within one day -- after waiting for four days I have noticed an *additional* registration button on the app's splash window (the app was running in demo mode), bringing me to yet another form on Fontlab's web site and letting me typing all my personal data (that I have given them already while purchasing the software online) once again. Then, finally, a couple of hours later I have recieved the serial. Also note: the serial number obviously belongs to the exact copy of the installer; if your backup copy of the installer you have downloaded would get lost you will have to pay a *fee* for the permission to download a new installer. Oh well...