While Fontographer users will appreciate that Studio now properly displays tangent points, they might be disappointed by the weak print and proof features, cumbersome handling of scanned images, and Studio’s mediocre zoom factor of 1,600 percent (I would like to see 6,400 percent).
(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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