July 19, 2007

High-Logic has released FontCreator 5.6, a full-featured font editor for Windows that lets you easily create and modify TrueType and OpenType fonts. In addition to enhancing individual characters or entire fonts, you can turn signatures, handwriting, logos, or any images into font characters.

This new release includes several enhancements and new features. The most impressive improvements are:

• Improved complete composites (automatically generates outlines for over 2000 glyphs!)
• New and improved transform scripts (for example make a bold version, or add Eastern Europe characters within seconds)
• Improved glyph validation performance
• Numerous powerful enhancements to the transformation features
• Improved background image support
• Enhanced the Kerning window
• Metrics and reference lines in the Glyph Edit window
• Import kerning pairs with their values

Download FontCreator version 5.6 from our download page.

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