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DTL OTMaster

Commercial combined graphical and table editor. From the announcement in January 2009: The Dutch Type Library and URW++ are proud to present DTL OTMaster, a highly sophisticated application for opening, reviewing, editing and saving tables of fonts with a snft file structure, as there are CFF and TTF flavoured OpenType fonts, TrueType fonts and TrueType Collection fonts. Font editors, like for instance the DTL FontMaster suite, FontLab Studio and FontForge, rely on their own internal data formats for type design and font production. In case of the batch oriented FontMaster modules, this is either an IK or a BE file, for the Ikarus and Bezier outline description formats respectively, along with data files for character and font encoding, font naming, kerning and OpenType Layout features. From these data, binary fonts for the end-user are compiled as the very last step in the font production process. OTMaster is a tool for inspecting and adjusting such binary fonts, irrespective of the font editor used for their creation. A unique feature of OTMaster is, that it makes the editing of tables possible from a graphical user interface. Furthermore, it comes with built-in tools like the Glyph Editor for proofing and editing contours or even drawing glyphs from scratch. A 'kern' Table Viewer is available for proofing and refining the kerning, and a 'GSUB'/'GPOS' Viewer to visually test (and in case of GPOS also adjust) these OpenType Layout tables. OTMaster was programmed at URW++ in Hamburg, Germany. The FM Team (Dr. Juergen Willrodt, Axel Stoltenberg, Hartmut Schwarz, Peter Rosenfeld and Frank E. Blokland) was joined by Karsten Luecke as advisor and also author of the OTM manual and Nikola Djurek for the design of the function icons in the Glyph Editor. OTMaster is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Free light versions: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux.

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