BitFonter A full-featured bitmap font editor
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A full-featured bitmap font editor BitFonter is a professional bitmap font editor for Mac OS X and Windows.BitFonter allows creative professionals, web designers and manufacturers of electronic devices to create and modify bitmap fonts for print publications, web pages, animations, computer games and electronic devices, convert between bitmap font formats as well as from and to outline font formats, and apply special effects to your outline fonts when used together with TypeTool, FontLab Studio or AsiaFont Studio.BitFonter allows users to do almost anything with bitmap fonts. They can design, edit or color them, apply special effects and embed bitmap fonts into TrueType or OpenType fonts. Here are some key features of "BitFonter": · Turn anything into fonts. Automatically convert scanned images or digital photos into bitmap fonts. · Extend your personal font library. With BitFonter, you can remix, ‘scratch’ and customize your fonts. · Be creative with Photofont. Photofonts bring the beauty of full-color bitmap fonts with texture and transparency to both print and web pages. · Bitmap font conversion. Convert between any of the supported bitmap font formats. · Bitmap fonts for electronic devices. Create fonts in a variety of formats usable in printers and imaging devices, mobile electronic devices, phones and electronic displays. · Superb screen legibility. Create razor-sharp fonts that improve screen text legibility in small font sizes. · Multilingual Unicode fonts. Create Unicode-compatible bitmap fonts for any script, alphabet or language. · Easy-to-use user interface. BitFonter’s intuitive user interface is easy to understand for Photoshop, FontLab Studio and TypeTool users. Requirements: · Mac OS 8.6–9.2 users might need CarbonLib Limitations: · Half of saved/exported glyphs will be distorted. What's New in This Release: · BitFonter does Windows! Previous versions of BitFonter were only available for Mac OS X, but now, BitFonter 3 is also available on Windows. · Powerful conversion of bitmaps and bitmap fonts from and to Type 1, TrueType and OpenType fonts though integration with FontLab Studio 5.0.3 and TypeTool 3. · Improved support for glyph outlines: better outline display, all font outlines can now be imported into BitFonter’s outline layer. · Streamlined user interface more compatible with FontLab Studio 5 and TypeTool 3, so switching between the bitmap and the outline font editor is easier. · Simplified conversion of scanned lettering or digital photos into fonts through easier handling of image cells and vastly improved algorithms for automatic shape detection, baseline detection and background removal. · Faster and more precise image manipulation filters for blurring, softening, sharpening, embossing, adding noise etc. · Improved import of various image formats (EPS, TIFF, JPG, PNG, GIF etc.) · More creative power with the improved brushes panel, allowing you to store and re-use the most commonly used brushes, new selection modes, new rotation tool and new tools options panel with more options for each tool — so users of Adobe Photoshop will feel at home instantly. · Easier, faster, more consistent spacing and kerning through the improved autospacing and autokerning algorithms, the new multiline metrics window with customizable colors and new FontLab Studio-style metrics table, as well as AFM export and import of metrics and kerning. · Faster and more reliable file saving using a new BitFonter binary file format (.bfb). · Improved support for the innovative Photofont technology, BitFonter 3 opens photofonts almost 10x faster than previous versions. · Multiple Unicode codepoints per glyph possible (“double-encoding”). · Easier navigation through the glyph repertoire using larger glyph cells and the new glyph index mode.

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