FontForge
The FontForge font editor lets you create your own PostScript, TrueType, OpenType, CID-keyed, Multiple Master, CFF, SVG, and bitmap (BDF, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones. It also lets you convert one format to another.
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- Supports TrueType, PostScript, OpenType, CID-keyed, multi-master, CFF, SVG, BDF, Datafork TrueType, etc.
- Can convert fonts from one format to another
- Can also store fonts in its native format called “spline font database files” using the .sfd extension, which has the advantage that is text-based
- Supports Adobe's OpenType feature file specification (with it own extensions to the syntax)
- Also supports the unofficial Microsoft mathematical typesetting extensions (MATH table)
- Uses FreeType for rendering fonts on screen
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Fontforge is an application that makes a hard task possible, namely, the design of high quality typefaces.
Despite its interface being based on X toolkit, it is comparable in function (but not in appearance) with modern toolkits.
The functionality of the program is superb and it can edit advanced features of the OpenType format for use with typesetting programs such as LaTeX (with the help of the fontspec package).
Highly recommended.
~ anonymous
on Feb 13, 2010
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