FontLab Releases New ScanFont 5 As Plug-in

New version functions as Plug-in for major FontLab programs, touts improved GUI amongst other improved features

ScanFont 5 Splash

FontLab have updated their ScanFont utilityâ€“a program that enables designers to trace scanned fonts, important in artistic design aspects such as creating fonts from handwritingâ€“and have released version 5. This version works as a plug-in to their major utilities, according to FontLab’s Ted Harrison:

This new version of ScanFont acts as a plugin for any of our font editors - TypeTool, Asiafont Studio, and FontLab Studio (and soon Fontographer, too). SF5 is optimized for scanning glyphs for autotracing into fonts, but it also gives you complete control over the scanning and autotrace process. You can adjust trace tolerance, curve fit and linearity to suit your subject, thus assuring the cleanest and most accurate scan possible so that the final font character requires little or no editing.

The pricing is $99 for a new copy, and upgrading from earlier ScanFonts is $29.95. Full details can be found and FontLab’s announcement here.

28 November 2007