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Download Apple Font Tools Release 3.1.0, a suite of command line tools for working with font files. This is a single installer package, complete with 60 page Tutorial, User documentation and Quick Reference.

New additions to the tool suite:
  • ftxstamper - sets version strings programmatically.
  • FontProoferX - generates test documents for whole repertoire.
  • MorxTester - traces AAT ligature actions.

Note that the documentation is placed in /Developer/Documentation/FontTools/

Articles

Documents included in the installer and downloadable separately here:

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