(Though RoboFab lets you extend, automate, and customize Studio 5 to the limits of your imagination, you will need to be a fairly adept programmer to get much out of it.) RoboFab toolkit, which lets you limitlessly manipulate fonts in Studio, and will even let you store font data in a non-proprietary and extensible format. Studio 5 even has a built-in Python editing window. Studio 5 also offers improved integration with the Python programming language that is built-in to Mac OS X, enabling infinite custom programming and scripting capabilities. This is an intriguing and original feature, but I would have been happier if Studio had offered deeper support for traditional foundry-style metrics fitting instead. The basic idea is that when you are editing a glyph, shape-related glyphs appear in the background, making it easier to keep related shapes in sync. A related new feature is called in-context editing. No font editor could ever do anything like this before. Essentially, it makes your 150 dpi screen look more like a 300 dpi or even 600 dpi screen. The anti-aliasing lets you view much smaller characters on screen than you ever could before, without visible pixel artifacts. Because of its efficient anti-aliasing capabilities, you can use Studio’s novel multi-line Metrics window to show comparatively small lines of text on screen.
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