Font Creator

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James Arnold

I've had a good look for font creation software, but nothing
satisfactory.

I was just wondering if there were any freeware font creators that can
take a bmp (or any image) input, allow you to edit it and then save it
as a font.

Preferably, you could scan either a single letter or a map of all of
them and select the individual characters (like HTML splicing).

Thank you,
James
 
James said:
I've had a good look for font creation software, but nothing
satisfactory.

I was just wondering if there were any freeware font creators that can
take a bmp (or any image) input, allow you to edit it and then save it
as a font.

Preferably, you could scan either a single letter or a map of all of
them and select the individual characters (like HTML splicing).

Thank you,
James
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James,
I have been looking for a good freeware font creator for years, and I
can tell you that there simply isn't one. Sorry.

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I have been looking for a good freeware font creator for years,
and I can tell you that there simply isn't one. Sorry.
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Cousin John ....

There is one called fontforge available
that runs under Linux systems ....

Font Editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts

FontForge (formerly PfaEdit) allows you to edit outline
and bitmap fonts. You can create new ones or modify old ones.

It is also a font format converter and can convert among
PostScript (ASCII & binary Type 1, some Type 3s, some Type 0s),
TrueType, and OpenType (Type2).

It's available from the Debian GNU/Linux repositories
so it might also be available in other Debian-based Linux
distributions as well ....

I've never tried it myself ....
 
I think you may be looking for the black cat at midnight in a darkened
cellar that doesn't exist. The major reason for that is that virtually no
fonts these days are bitmap-based. Mac and Windows use different font
formats but in both cases they are curve-based (Type 1 and Truetype,
respectively).
Ideally, a font editor/creator would resemble a Draw program which lets you
draw and edit the curves using bezier handles, then compile the different
characters into a single font file.

Mike Bourke
 
Cousin John ....

There is one called fontforge available
that runs under Linux systems ....

Font Editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts
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Well .. the world at large still mainly runs on Windows, so ...

In regard to finding a True Font manipulator, there once existed
a program (on floppy disc) called "True Graphics" (I think). This
program permitted the user to choose any TTF font and manipulate
it into various facades such as wood surface, granite surface,
in fact just about any kind of surface you desire. It also allowed
for drop shadowing of varying widths and lighting angles. It made
3-D block letters of two or more colors, with or without shadowing.
I am dismayed that this simple program is no longer available. I
would even pay reasonably for something like that today.
 
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