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| fontforge | Font creation | fontforge is a GUI tool which allows us to create and modify vectored and bitmapped fonts (postscript,truetype and opentype fonts). The fonts can be saved in different outline formats, and generate bitmaps.The outline view is where you actually edit the splines that make up your glyphs. It allows us to create complex curves using GUI interface. There is a birds eye view to all the charecters in the font. | http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ |
This tools gives lots of
flexibility while designing a font. The help manual is quiet good.
Font creation theories are covered in detail which help a naive user
delve into the isssues of font creation. |
| xmbdf |
Font creation |
xmbdf is a bdf (bitmap distribution format) font
creation tool.
Multiple glyph bitmap fonts can be edited at the same time using this
tool. |
http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/ xmbdfed.html |
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| gfonted |
Font Creation |
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http://www.levien.com/gfonted/ |
destined to become a font editor for Adobe Type 1 format fonts. .It is currently in the very early stages of development. |
| ttf2bdf | Font Converter |
This tool can be used to convert
fonts in TrueType format to
fonts in BDF format. |
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ ttf2bdf.html |
This tool uses FreeType TrueType rendering library to generate BDF bitmap fonts from TrueType outline fonts at different sizes and resolutions. |