Licence
Autopsy is free for non-commercial use.
A licence has to be purchased from my shop as soon as profit is made with fonts that involved Autopsy for testing. Licences are sold per workstation that it is used on.
Answers and questions
Why do I need this?
You don’t get your kicks from punches, stiff serifs and ink cracks?
Move, nothing to see here.
Otherwise you need this tool to make sure that the letters you draw are consistent in design across your font family. It doesn’t go into aesthetic details of lettershapes. That’s up to your type design skills. But you can now make sure that the width of your Light, Bold and Black blend well behaved according to b=√(ac), a=b²÷c and c=b²÷c. Read more about interpolation theory at Luc[as]’s (click on Information and then Interpolation theory) or on Typophile.
Dude, I superpolate.
I know that my fonts are b=√(ac), a=b²÷c and c=b²÷c !
Right. This tool is not for the superpolators. It is for those who draw fonts in single files, one for Regular, one for Bold and one for Black.
It is useful for foundries who are updating ancient font families that have been digitized when Multiple Master or Superpolator was unheard of. Those fonts often have huge design inconsistencies that are difficult to come by if you can’t see them.
But I can already compare my fonts now.
I generate each of them, fire up InDesign, place each letter of each font on the pages, export the thing as a PDF, open Acrobat and view the thing on the screen.
Right.
Coming up in future versions
- Save individual presets of preferences from the GUI
- Use option boxes instead of check boxes in GUI. Hello, FontLab? Hello??
- Generally improve User Interface
- Get glyphs with zero width and missing glyphs right
- Support TrueType outlines
If you must use TrueType fonts now, convert them PostScript outlines first.
- Tweak colors and fonts of the PDF from the GUI
Anything missing? Let me know.
Recent changes
Version 1.1
- Added: PDF Bookmarks
- Added: Option to draw glyphs filled or empty, to check for FontLab’s RemoveOverlap errors
- Added: Option to display font’s full name under each glyph
- Bugfix: Often one glyph appeared twice in the PDF
Comments
Comments: 7. Page 1 of 1. I didn't mean to step on your toes; as an unemployed senior willing to work but there's age discrimination where I live ... I will refrain from downloading in the future because I'm on Social Security and money doesn't go far nowadays ...
Kindest ... read more » |
 | | Marvin
| 12:14am on Thursday, February 19th, 2009
| Hi, C. Koeberlin reccomended me to use your tool and i have to tell you that it is great! we were testing it in several fonts and found an error with one of them, i would like to show you the result but i cant do it in this comment box. I hope you ca... read more » |
| | | dario muhafara
| 5:15pm on Friday, October 24th, 2008
| I♥
YN & Autopsy |
| | | Christoph Koeberlin
| 11:36am on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
| Dude, Superpolator needs its masters in single files too. Autopsy will work great! |
| | | LettError
| 11:56pm on Monday, June 23rd, 2008
| Why dont you call it Autypsy???
|
| | | wilson
| 12:30am on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
| I've installed Autopsy but I can't find how to actually run it.
Yanone: You’ll find it in the drop-down menus of the "Macro" toolbar of FontLab. |
| | | Jan Mark
| 2:16pm on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
| Thanks a lot for the initiative of this tool, which I'm looking forward to giving it a try! Unfortunately, the install doesn't work for me and my classmates. We manage to launch the installer, it starts but then end up getting this message: “There we... read more »
Yanone: I dumped the mac installer and decided to split the package up into single archives containing Autopsy and ReportLab respectively. Each has to be downloaded and installed manually. |
| | | Mathieu Christe
| 3:24pm on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
|
Add a comment
 
|
