FontForge
FontForge (previously known as Pfaedit) is an open source font
editor, software designed to create and modify outline and bitmap fonts.
FontForge 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), CID-keyed, SVG, CFF and
multiple-master fonts.
FontForge uses FreeType for rendering fonts on screen. Fonts
that have been created with FontForge include DejaVu fonts, Linux
Libertine, Beteckna, and Asana-Math.
Also included with FontForge are programs to generate a font
thumbnail image, check for certain common errors and to compare two
font files (fontimage, fontlint, and sfddiff respectively).
Features include:
- Create or edit glyphs
- Supports many font formats, including TrueType, PostScript,
OpenType, SVG, FON, FNT, Web Open Font Format, and TeX Bitmap
fonts
- Supports Adobe's OpenType feature file specification
- Supports the unofficial Microsoft mathematical typesetting
extensions (MATH table)
- Convert fonts from one format to another, or can store
fonts in its native text-based "spline font database" format (.sfd)
- Uses Potrace or AutoTrace to trace bitmap images and import
them into a font
- 2 scripting languages
- Internationalization support: (English), Russian, Japanese,
French, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Greek, Simplified &
Traditional Chinese, German, Polish, and Ukrainian
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