![]() ![]() In October 2001 Fontlab also announced the new Photofont technology, a non-proprietary XML-based specification which allowed users to create text-searchable bitmap fonts for web sites (Photofont is now an interchange format for color OpenType font creation). In 1996 Pyrus released two new products: FontLab Composer, a multilingual, multi-platform (Windows, OS/2) international font editor with most of the features of FontLab plus the ability to edit and manipulate CID-keyed fonts of the very large Chinese, Korean, and Japanese character sets and SigMaker, a simple utility that could add a signature (or vectorized version of any bitmap image) to a TrueType font in only a few steps. ![]() ![]() Pyrus retained Yuri Yarmola, head of the original programming group, to continue development of FontLab and related products. All the rights to FontLab were sold to Pyrus and the SoftUnion programming team. In 1995 SoftUnion decided to divest itself of its software business in order to concentrate on hardware. Both apps were introduced in 1994 and bundled with FontLab 2.5. Users were empowered in other areas by ScanFont, a program to help them convert scanned images into font, and FindFont, a utility to find fonts with particular characteristics on the user's hard disk. ![]()
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