Pyrus North America eventually bought all the rights to FontLab, hired Yarmola, then restructured as Fontlab Ltd., Inc. was formed in the United States to distribute and market FontLab 2.0 for Microsoft Windows, which was released in 1993. of Saint Petersburg, Russia, under lead programmer Yuri Yarmola. The software was initially developed by the company SoftUnion Ltd. FontLab is available for Windows and macOS. Since the early 2000s, it has been the dominant software tool for commercial/retail digital font development.

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.FontLab is a font editor developed by Fontlab Ltd., Inc.

Application configuration (options, modes) necessary for each task are included, either for manual setup or as part of the scripting.

Compatibility between versions of FontLab, Python and OS's are given, so a working combination can be assembled in every case.

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That the material is presented in the appropriate sequence to achieve a given purpose.

That all the materials needed are in one place, so the reader doesn't have to trawl for fragmented info (i.e.

To give programmers who are not font designers an efficient tour of the APIs so they can write scripts for a font designer.

To give non-programming font designers a complete and efficient tutorial to get useful scripting work done.

Within the Python scripting chapter, the aim is to support two learning paths:

FontLab supports a large range of features and font formats, so the potential scope of this book is correspondingly large.

Therefore this book aims to document complete and efficient howto info on all aspects of FontLab usage in production of modern fonts.

The initial goal was to cover just Python scripting, but this draws on font design and production techniques, so they need a place too.

This book is about using FontLab and FontLab Studio, the Font creation tools from FontLab for both Mac and Windows.

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