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<font style="font-weight: bold;" size="+3">Fonts</font><br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">This table describes a list of
tools are used to create fonts.These can be useful while localizing an
application<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">fontforge</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Font creation</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">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.</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;"><a
href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/">http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">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.<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>xmbdf<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">Font creation<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">xmbdf is a bdf (<span
style="font-style: italic;">bitmap distribution format) </span>font
creation tool.
Multiple glyph bitmap fonts can be edited at the same time using this
tool.<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><a
href="http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/xmbdfed.html">http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/</a><br>
<a href="http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/xmbdfed.html">xmbdfed.html</a><br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">gfonted<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">Font Creation<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><a
href="http://www.levien.com/gfonted/">http://www.levien.com/gfonted/</a><br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">destined to become a font editor
for Adobe Type
1 format fonts. .It is currently in the very early stages of
development.</td>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">ttf2bdf</td>
<td style="vertical-align: top;">Font Converter<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">This tool can be used to convert
fonts in <span style="font-style: italic;">TrueType</span> format to
fonts in <span style="font-style: italic;">BDF </span>format.<br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;"><a
href="http://crl.nmsu.edu/%7Emleisher/ttf2bdf.html">http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/</a><br>
<a href="http://crl.nmsu.edu/%7Emleisher/ttf2bdf.html">ttf2bdf.html</a><br>
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<td style="vertical-align: top;">This tool uses FreeType <span
style="font-style: italic;">TrueType </span>rendering library to
generate BDF bitmap fonts from TrueType outline fonts at different
sizes and
resolutions. </td>
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