Dtl Otmaster Full Version

The previous retail version (6.3) of DTL OTMaster was released back in the spring of 2016. A lot of functionality has been added since, especially developed for the internal font production at URW Type Foundry and the Dutch Type Library. The current OTM version is already 7.9 and an overview of the extensive new functionality can be found below. The initial idea was that version 8 would be the next retail version.

January 26, 20092-So, my old friend Frank Blokland over at the recently asked me to take a look at a new tool they were developing. DTL has a whole suite of tools collectively known as. OTMaster ( OT being short for OpenType), along with its free “Light” version, is a new addition to this suite, and has just shipped.Basically, OTMaster is a tool for cracking open and looking inside OpenType fonts (or plain old Windows TrueType fonts). It shows a fairly literal/​direct representation of what’s in the various tables and subtables.

Free irs mileage log form. It has a bit of unobtrusive interface and allows direct editing of various fields. This is an excellent tool for font geeks/​developers, but not really appropriate for the average end user of fonts.Here are a couple of screen shots (click on each for full size version):OT Master glyphs displayOT Master display of OS/​2 tableCurrently, if I want a simple and accurate representation of the contents of a TrueType or OpenType font, and possibly to edit the info, I have been using the wondrous open source tool, which is based on the FontTools library. This dumps the font info to an XML text file, which can be viewed/​edited in any text editor or anything that can handle XML. It can also recompile the text file back into a font. (In fairness, Adobe’s also has table dumping/​recompiling tools, just not quite as slick as TTX.

Even Adobe folks often use TTX.)Why would I use either OTMaster or TTX instead of, say,? FLS is a great program which I use a lot, but it interprets the OpenType font into its own internal format. It can’t open a font, make a tiny change and re-​save it as a font without potentially changing other things. To give a really concrete example, FLS displays font embedding settings in terms of its interpretation of the settings, rather than the actual bits. So if I’m looking at a font with a bogus/​illegal embedding setting, I can’t tell, because FontLab won’t show me that, it’ll just default to showing the end result as some legit setting instead. So tools like TTX or OTMaster are really handy for that, because they show the unvarnished truth of what’s in the font, without interpretation.The downside to tools like TTX and OTMaster is that they make little effort to tell you the meaning of the various cryptic values for various fields (or the exact meaning of the field itself), even when said values are legal/​legit.

January 27, 2009 wroteAs someone who works with OpenType fonts on an every-​day basis, and with the tools that are used to build and check them, I would like to state here that DTL OTMaster is a fabulous tool. The best way for me to characterize it is that it gives me the power of AFDKO’s “spot” tool, and that of TTX, but wrapped up in nice GUI. It handles CJK fonts well, including those with a large number of glyphs.

I especially appreciate that there is a Mac OS X version, because that is the OS that I use.I should add that I’ve found TTX sometimes just fails to translate certain fonts; it seems that OTMaster may be more robust. – TLeave a commentNameEmailWebpage.

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