Free opentype software for mac

FontForge is a tool designed as an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones.
Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats.
FontForges user interface has been localized for: (English), Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, Simplified Chinese, German, Polish, Spanish, Vietnamese, Greek.

Enhancements
- Extensive patch by Alexey Kryukov to support composites (references) in bitmap fonts.
- Copy/Paste bitmap references
- Output into sfnts
- sfd extension
- Fix them up so that bitmap formats which dont support them have them unlinked
- Support for the JSTF table (sfd extension), new dialog Element->Other info->Justification.
Add a set of new python functions for manipulating CID keyed fonts:
- cidConvertTo(registry,ordering,supplement)
- cidConvertByCmap(filename)
- cidFlatten()
- cidFlattenByCmap(filename)
- cidInsertBlankSubFont()
- cidRemoveSubFont()
- Add support for reading/writing version 1.8 of Adobes feature file format (while, I hope, retaining the ability to read version 1.6). Fix a number of bugs in parsing feature files.
- The new format is considerably better than the old and can now be used to express almost all of OpenType.
- ability to name anchors and value records and use them later.
- contourpoints used to be expressed as "" and are now expressed as "contourpoint 2" (no brokets). Adobe does not mention this in the changelog. [Incompatible change]
- It is now possible to specify a GDEF mark attachment class in the lookupflags statement.
- The syntax for mark to base/ligature/mark lookups is completely different. [Incompatible change]
- The syntax for contextual lookups has been extended to allow them to reference lookups by name. [FontForge has always done this. When I suggested to Adobe that they follow suit they said they would not. They have now followed suit but have used an incompatible syntax to accomplish the same ends. So this is an Incompatible change for FontForge]
- The syntax for contextual lookups has been extended to allow for the new mark lookups.
- It is now possible to specify a reverse chaining substitution lookup.
- It is now possible to specify descriptive names for the ss00-ss99 features. FontForge doesnt support this but will parse and ignore it
- Last release Werner asked me to put in checks for glyphs that exceded various limits in the font (glyphs outside the bounding box, glyphs with advance widths bigger than the max, etc.) The problem is that erroneous fonts often have thousands of these errors, so only report once -- unless they turn on fontlint.
- Fix several problems with simplifying quadratic splines.
- Could still get control points pointing diametrically opposite their desired position when converting cubics to quadratics (happened when we could not find a good solution by subdividing the spline and had to try another approach).
- AddExtrema could go into an infinite loop.
- Barry points out that when converting something to a CID font through a CMAP the last glyph in the encoding will be lost.
- Some inconsistancies in ff python docs and reality.
- The regen bitmaps dlg sometimes did not use freetype for all glyphs.
- Metrics view had problems with cid fonts.
- FontForge was supposed to check that the compile time (include file) freetype library version number matched the installed version number. But it didnt. Only matters in the debugger, but is important there.
- Autoinstructor: fixed a hang reported by Andrey V. Panov.
Autoinstructor: patch from Alexey:
- More tweaking to diagonal stems.
- Added support to horizontal ghost hints not tied to blue zones and vertical ghost hints.
- Barry points out a free which is sometimes inappropriate.
- The transform function from the fontview (and python) would transform images in the background layer multiple times -- once for each selected layer.
Autoinstructor: patch from Alexey:
- Fix an issue reported by Andrey V. Panov (counter control again).
- One type of dependent stems were positioned with wrong method; resulting in serifs pushed beyond their blue zones and other quirks.
- fix a crash bug in the math kern dlg.
- If a tt control point were on top of an on-curve point, then ff would ignore it. So when I read things in I moved it, slightly. But that didnt work, because the instructions would do the wrong thing with it, and if it were part of an interpolated sequence that info would be garbled. So only swallow control points if they dont have a nextcpindex.

Enhancements:

• Expand your Linotype library: For a limited time, registered QuarkXPress 6.5 users gain access to a font package with more than 40 OpenType fonts from Linotype. And if you are prompted with a "Missing font" message, you can click the "Buy missing font" button and buy additional fonts from Linotype at a special price for registered users.
• Manipulate images right in QuarkXPress 6.5 with powerful QuarkVista XTensions software and forget about expensive image editing software.
• Import native Adobe Photoshop documents (.psd files) into QuarkXPress and exploit the power of multi-layer Photoshop images without leaving QuarkXPress.
• Place guides on a master pages pasteboard and display them automatically in your layout.
• Group tables with other QuarkXPress items including other tables, picture boxes, and text boxes.
• Customize printing features such as saving output settings for custom bleeds as print styles.
• Simplify IT management with support for Citrix servers and run the application off a server instead of an individual users computer.
• If you created a table in a layout, and set properties such as color, shade, text angle, and skew for cells of table column 1, then changed the content to picture content and ran an AppleScript, it returned junk. This issue has been resolved.
• If you applied a bleed value to an EPS file by executing an AppleScript, it did not produce the specified bleed value in the actual output. This issue has been resolved.
• Mac OS 10.3.3 only: If you created a project with a couple of pages in it, made a picture box on the first page and another one on the second, grouped them, and ran an AppleScript to add reference to the boxes, it returned incorrect references and displayed alerts. This issue has been resolved.
• If you imported an EPS file with a Pantone ink into a picture box, converted the imported Pantone ink to a process color (Control+click the ink in the Colors palette and choose Convert to Process from the context menu), modified the EPS file, and updated the picture in the layout, it resulted in a new Pantone color name with an asterisk prefixed to it in the Colors palette. This issue has been resolved and now the color retains the name it had before the modification.
• If you created a project, imported an XML file into it, saved it and then opened the project on a different operating system, dragging the elements of a DTD into a text box caused QuarkXPress to quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
• If you created a project, imported elements from a DTD and an XML file saved on the same location into a text box, saved it and then tried to open it, it displayed an alert "Invalid document structure" and lost all XML file(content) information. This issue has been resolved.
• In a layout, if you renamed an image, its status displayed as Missing in the Picture Usage dialog box; updating the image still displayed its status as Modified, instead of OK in the Picture Usage dialog box. This issue has been resolved.
• Mac OS 10.3.3 only: If you imported an SCT,BMP,PICT or PNG image with a clipping path into a picture box, QuarkXPress quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
• If you imported an image with an embedded path into a picture box and applied an embedded path to it, deleting the applied embedded path caused QuarkXPress to quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
• If you imported a picture into a picture box, saved the project in a specific location and then moved the picture file to the location of the project, it displayed the status of the picture as Missing(Utilities > Usage > Pictures). This issue has been resolved and QuarkXPress now locates the picture files that are in the same location as the project.
• Mac OS 10.3 only: If you created two text boxes, one larger than the other, in a print layout, then anchored the smaller box in the larger one; and tried to synchronize text (Style > Synchronize Text ), QuarkXPress quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
• At times, QuarkXPress quit unexpectedly while opening legacy documents with layers. This issue has been resolved.
• If you exported only selective layout pages as PDF, the anchors specified on the pages did not take the user to the destinations defined in the anchors. This issue has been resolved.
• If you imported a PDF with rotated content into a layout, and rotated the same PDF to any degree, then exported it as a PDF, it did not get exported correctly and displayed an image that did not exist. This issue has been resolved.
• If you created a PostScript file from a layout (File > Export > Layout as PDF) with the PDF preferences set to Create PostScript File for Later Distilling in the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress > Preferences > Application > PDF), a copy of the PostScript file was created in the "jaws emp" folder in addition to the specified folder for saving the PostScript file. This issue has been resolved and the PostScript file is now created only in the specified folder without creating a duplicate copy in "jaws emp" folder.
• If you placed a cropped PDF file in the center of a picture box, it did not center properly. This issue has been resolved and the cropped PDF files center correctly in a picture box.
• The name for a PDF file in the Preferences pane (Edit > Preferences) does not default to "Project: Layout.pdf". It remains "Layout.pdf".
• If you imported an EPS file into a picture box with no font embedded, and the font is not available on the system, saving the layout as an EPS file still displayed the font as embedded in the EPS file. This issue has been resolved.
• Mac OS 10.3.5 only: If you tried to print text from a layout using ITC Zapf Dingbats font, QuarkXPress displayed a PostScript alert. This issue has been resolved.
• If you tried to print a layout with a cropped PDF file embedded as a picture, it caused the picture position to be printed incorrectly. This issue has been resolved.
• If you tried to print a layout using a Xerox PPD (File > Print > Setup > Printer Description), QuarkXPress quit unexpectedly. This issue has been resolved.
• Mac OS 10.3.3 only: If you created a project with specific Czech characters using Helvetica CE, Geneva CE 9 or 10 point size and printed it to any PostScript printer, the spacing between the 9 and 10 point characters appeared different from other point sizes. Also, when printed, negative kerning was applied for all capital characters along with positive kerning for lowercase characters. These issues have been resolved.

Requirements:

• QuarkXPress 6.1 and QuarkXPress Passport 6.1
• Minimum 128MB total RAM
• 230MB available hard disk space for QuarkXPress installation
• TCP/IP network for site license (using Quark License Administrator).

FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software. After several relatively sad years for all font users who were looking for a professional font manager, Linotype is pleased to fill the gap with the new FontExplorer X.
Font management has never been so simple, and font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are now more fun than ever. FontExplorer X will give computer users all the font functions they could need, and will allow them to decide how deeply they wish to dive into various font themes.
Powerful font handling
Organize your fonts just like your media files ? using a library, folders, tags and even smart sets. You want direct access to all typefaces from a certain foundry? All italics? Or all fonts tagged with a certain keyword? FontExplorer X makes this easy!
All fonts and formats are recognized automatically and can be managed in a comfortable way. You decide whether FontExplorer X should take control over the folder structure, or if you want to leave it untouched ? we built this software to be as unobtrusive as possible.
Built-in Online Store
Ever wanted to browse through fonts you want in the same way as the fonts you already have? Try Linotypes FontExplorer X and its integrated shopping solution. Whenever you are looking for a particular font, you will find it here. And the best part: you can try it and play around with it before you buy it.
Examine and compare fonts inside FontExplorer Xs online store as if they were installed on your system. If you found your favourite, add it to your shopping cart and purchase it with only a few clicks. This is a whole new font licensing experience.
Auto-Activation
Finally an auto-activation function that really works! FontExplorer X lets you decide which applications may request fonts, and which may not. And of course there are plugins for popular DTP apps like Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator and Quark XPress.
Detailed font information
FontExplorer X shows virtually every bit of information a font file can contain. You can examine the complete character set, inform yourself about the legal stuff or just see a few sample paragraphs to know what a font looks like in real-life context.
Main features:
Help Functions
- Setup Assistant
- Auto Updater
- Comprehensive Application Help
- Online FAQ Archive
Font Management
- Enable/Disable Fonts
- Clear Font Caches
- Clear Application (Adobe, Microsoft, Quark) Font Caches
- Enable/Disable Sets
- Smart Sets
- Support for Apple?s Font Collections
- Typeface family view
- OpenType style linking view
Font Information
- Customizable Preview
- Detailed Preview
- Character View
- Font Information
- Export as image/zip/disk image
- Character information
System Integration
- Spotlight Support
- Works on 10.3.9 and 10.4
Missing-Font Handling
- Systemwide auto-activation of fonts
- Adobe InDesign CS1/CS2 Support
- Adobe Illustrator CS1/CS2 Support
- QuarkXPress 6.5 Support
Language Versions
- Supported languages are currently English and German.
Miscellaneous
- Integrated Font Store
- Conflict Handling
- Document font scanner
- Growl support
- Free download

Enhancements
- This update (Version 1.2.3) fixes among other things some misbehavior in previous versions of FontExplorer X when used under Mac OS X 10.5. It is strongly recommended for all users of Mac OS X 10.5.
- Updated features: The ?Clean System Fonts Folder? function now also takes care of those fonts that are part of the System installation of Mac OS X 10.5.
- System font requests for auto activation caused requesting applications to hang until FontExplorer X is quit. This has been fixed
- Deleting font caches under Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) now works as expected
- Show/Hide Font Collections under Mac OS X 10.5 now works as expected
- Smart Set conditions ?contained in? and ?not contained in? now work as expected
- Instability (freezes, crashes) with QuarkXPress 6.5 when using the Plug-In have been fixed (new Plug-In v1.41)