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Werner Lemberg’s ‘ttfautohint’ 0.7 as an OS X Service

Werner Lem­berg is devel­op­ing a novel auto-​hinter for TrueType fonts. It is based on the Free­Type rasterizer.

To make it easy for typeface design­ers to test the cap­ab­il­it­ies of ttfauto­hint I have cre­ated a self-​contained Ser­vice for OS X. Please note that ttfauto­hint is pre-​release soft­ware and should not be used for pro­duc­tion pur­poses. Please note that ttfauto­hint is released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Ver­sion 2.

Just un-​zip and double-​click the ttfauto­hint file. OS X will prompt you to either edit or install the Ser­vice; choose install. Done.

Use it by right-​clicking on one or more TTFs, then choose ttfauto­hint from within the Ser­vices menu-​item. The Ser­vice will now start auto-​hinting the fonts and save them in the same folder under new names in the style of foo.AH.ttf.

There have been some reports of prob­lems installing and run­ning this Ser­vice in ver­sions of OS X earlier than 10.7. If you run into trouble try manu­ally pla­cing the Ser­vice in ~/​Library/​Services/​, and if that folder does not exist, cre­ate it first.

Down­load ttfauto­hint 0.7 as Service