Saving fonts

RoboFont can write several formats.

UFO files

RoboFont can write UFO1 and UFO2 font files. It's recommended to use UFO2.  

As an option is possible to save images next to the UFO. This makes it easier to exchange UFO with images.

Generating binary font files

RoboFont can write

  • otf
    OpenType CFF flavored font 
  • ttf
    TrueType OpenType font
  • pfa
    PostScript ASCII font

otf     pfa
Decompose An OpenType CFF flavored font is always decomposed
Remove Overlap Remove overlap during generating the font
Autohint Enable FDK autohint 
Release Mode Removes the word 'Development' from the name table Version (see MakeOTFUserGuide.pdf)
 ttf 
Decompse Enable to decompose components
Remove Overlap Remove overlap during generating the font
Autohint Will be enable if ttfautohint is installed on the users local computer.
Release Mode Removes the word 'Development' from the name table Version (see MakeOTFUserGuide.pdf)

Enable 'Use MacRoman as the start of the glyph order' will force MacRoman to start the encoding with, otherwise it will take the order from the font collection sort.

Python files

Saving python files from within the scripting window.