The fontQA system requirements

Please find below a list of requirements that your system must meet to use the fontQA framework.

• Operating System
  The fontQA framwork runs inside FontLab, so the supported operating systems are the same that FontLab supports:
  • Mac OS Classic (version 9.2 and above with CarbonLib 1.6 and above)
  • Mac OS X (version 10.3 and above)
  • Microsoft Windows (version 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP)
• FontLab
  As mentioned above fontQA runs inside FontLab, so you need it. Supported versions are 4.5, 4.6 and the upcoming FontLab Studio 5.
• Python
  The fontQA framwork is written in python, so you need a Python interpreter which is supported by your FontLab programme.
  • Mac
    Since FontLab for Mac is carbon software you need the carbon version of MacPython-OS9 2.3.3 - other versions will not work.
  • Windows
    For Windows you need version 2.2.x - other versions will not work. Youn can download Python 2.3.3 vor Windows from the original Python website. I prefer the distribution from Active State which includes the win32 and win32com extensions. The matching installer is ActivePython-2.2.3-227-win32-ix86.msi.
  For more details go to the FontLab python page.
• WEB browser
  The reports created by fontQA are XML files which must be converted to HTML by the browser via an XSL transformation - not every browser can do this.
  • Mac
    The latest version of Safari will work.
  • Windows
    Internet Explorer (version 5 and above) will work.

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