Cool.
Question: Will the $99 upgrade from 4.6 always be available?

hhp

After a couple of minutes playing with Studio 5, i have to congratulate and thank the development team for this piece of software. Outstanding... it has improved my life.

miles

www.newlyn.com

“A Macintosh version is also in the works and will enter beta testing shortly.”

Please let it be soon?

ChrisL

> i have to congratulate and thank the development team for this piece of software. Outstanding…

Can you tell us about the improved Bézier drawing tools? What about the nodes (curve, corner, tangent) — easy to change like FOG?

yes, those nodes are great (can’t compare with FOG, never used it), however i didn’t have a problem with them before.
my favourite bits are the preview, metrics, and printing features.

Thanks Miles.

Anyone, anybody with FL Studio 5 & FOG?

i have FOG, but never could get used to it. Perhaps it’s because i downloaded the FLab demo first and learned my way around font software in it. I prefer letter drawing in FLab even to drawing in Illustrator. I’m addicted to FLS5 and dunno if i could ever go back to FLab 4. It’s that good, IMO.

Paul, can you draw anykind of point and then change it (using the menu bar)? what about Clean Up Paths or Optimize?

Download the demo yourself and check it out:
http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/FontLab-Studio/

I have mac. thank you anyway.

Can you draw anykind of point and then change it (using the menu bar)?

You mean change the kind of point you just made, or change the next kind of point you will make? If the latter, you can switch between different kinds of new points using either the toolbar of keyboard shortcuts. If you have already, for instance, made a corner point, and decide you want it to be a tangent you can covert the line on one side of it to a curve by alt+clicking on it, and then convert the point by double clicking on it. You don’t need to change tools during this operation: the operations available are contextual based on where you click.

> You mean change the kind of point you just made

Yes. And even if you draw a circle; you go to Menu > Points > Curve/Corner/Tangent. am i clear?

If you’ve drawn a circle, you can only toggle between curve or corner point (by double-clicking on the node). You can’t have a tangent point unless there is a straight line on one side of the point and a curve on the other. The double-clicking is contextual: if you have a corner point with curves on either side, double-clicking on it will make it a curve point. If you have a corner point with a curve on one side and a straight line on the other side, double-clicking will make it a tangent. If you have a corner point with a straight line on both sides, double-clicking won’t do anything, since there is no curve element to define a curve or tangent. So point type is dependent on adjacent line type, which is how it should be I think.