AsiaFont Studio

Import formats: Name-keyed OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Win CID-keyed PostScript, TrueType Collection (.ttc), CMap, Win Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm/.afm), ASCII/Unix Type 1 (.pfa + .afm), Win Multiple Master (.pfb + .mmm), FontLab 2.5 (.vfa), FontLab 3.0-4.6 / FontLab Studio 5 (.vfb), Adobe Illustrator 8 EPS (.ai, .eps). Imports up to 64,000 characters.

In addition, the Mac version also imports Mac Type 1 (.hqx, .bin), Mac TrueType (.hqx, .bin, .dfont), Mac CID-keyed PostScript.

Note: CID-keyed OpenType PS fonts are currently not supported.

Export Formats: Name-keyed OpenType PS (.otf), Win TrueType / OpenType TT (.ttf), Win Type 1 (.pfb + .pfm/.afm), ASCII/Unix Type 1 (.pfa + .afm), Win Multiple Master (.pfb + .mmm), Adobe Illustrator 3/6/7/8-compatible EPS (.ai + .eps).

In addition, the Mac version also exports Mac Type 1 (.hqx, .bin), Mac TrueType (.hqx, .bin, .dfont).

Fontlab Ltd. offers a special license for the CID Builder plugin that allows export of CID-keyed PostScript fonts. Pricing and availability upon request.

Note: OpenType Layout tables for complex scripts such as Arabic, Devanagari or Thai can be added with the free Microsoft VOLT application.

Tools: Draw, Erase, VectorPaint, Mirror, Composite, Set Startpoint, Interpolate, Envelope, Remove Overlap, Merge Contours, Subtract Contours, Snap to Guides, Check Connections, Nodes at Extremes, Meter, TrueType and Type 1 manual hinting, Undo (100+ levels), Sketch, Knife, Magic Wand, Rotate, Skew, Scale, Intersect Contours

Filters: Bold, Outline, Sidebearings Control, Scale, Slant, Rotate, Autohint, and many more -- all programmable and applicable font wide (You can program sequences of filters and apply them to any range of characters, including the whole font or set of fonts). Macro-based filters: Digital, Shadow, Bevel, Drops, Slices, Mosaic

Windows: Glyph, Font chart, Preview/Kerning/Metrics, Preview, OpenType, Classes, Map, Macro Editor, OpenType Sample, Anchors

Encoding: Big5, GB, Unicode, Shift-JIS, Unicode, Custom, ANSI, ASCII, and virtually all known codepages and encodings

Printouts: Character, Preview, Font Table, Kerning,Glyph Properties, Waterfall Preview

700+-page manual

Hardware requirements: 64MB RAM, SVGA Monitor, Mouse, USB hardware key (supplied by Fontlab)

Software requirements: For Windows version: Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP). For Mac version: Mac OS 9.2+ with CarbonLib 1.6+ or Mac OS X (10.3 or higher recommended). AsiaFont Studio 4 will run on Intel-based Mac OS X, see details.

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Download AsiaFont Studio 4 for Mac OS 9 & OS X demo version (~6MB) by clicking one of these links. Demo limitation: saves fonts up to 20 glyphs and exports "watermarked" fonts. Mac OS 8.6-9.2 users: please look for "Carbon" in our FAQ section.

Mac demo: US1 | US2 | EU | Asia

Download Python for Mac
To run Python macros, all Mac OS 9 & OS X users need MacPython-OS9 installed. See our Python page for installation instructions.

Download AsiaFont Studio 4 for Mac user manual (PDF format, ~11MB) by right-clicking or Ctrl+clicking one of these links and choosing "Save link as" or "Download linked file":

Mac manual: US1 |US2 | Asia

Download AsiaFont Studio 4 for Windows demo (~6MB) by clicking one of these links. Demo limitation: does not generate fonts.

Win demo: US1 | US2 | EU | Asia |

Download Python for Windows
To run Python macros, you need Python 2.3.x installed. See our Python page for more information.

Download AsiaFont Studio 4 for Windows user manual (PDF,~10MB) by right-clicking or Ctrl+clicking one of these links and choosing "Save link as" or "Download linked file":

Win manual: US1 | US2

Download free fonts: FreeFont Pro | FreeSans | FreeSerif | Caty Mac | Caty Win

Free font table templates: The default bitmap font template of glyphs in AsiaFont Studio contains a couple thousand glyphs. If you would like to have a larger template glyph set you can download the templates.zip file which contains two bitmap template fonts with much larger glyph sets. You can also use these in TypeTool or FontLab.

In the DATA subdirectory of your AsiaFont Studio application you will find a file called template.dat. Rename it to template.bak and then place one of the other template font files in the subdirectory and rename it template.dat. Restart the application and the new template glyphs set will be used.

Ask about our upgrade special from FontLab Composer, FontLab 4.6, FontLab Studio or Fontographer  US$1399

CID Builder is a special-license plugin for AsiaFont Studio that allows creation of CID-keyed PostScript fonts.

CID Builder for Macintosh  US$139                         

CID Builder for Windows  US$139 

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