December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Font Development Tools
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their corresponding outlines, there are also dedicated bitmapped font editors. Because
outline fonts are now very common on Mac OS X and Windows and are really the pre-
ferred format for fonts, the demand or need for dedicated bitmapped font editors has
diminished to a signicant extent. However, bitmapped fonts are still a big part of Unix,
Linux, and the X Windows System. Mark Leisher’s XmBDFEditor was considered a very
good bitmapped font editor for Unix, Linux, and related OSes, but has since been replaced
by his gbdfed tool.
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Outline Font Editors
Several high-quality font editors are commercially available and are quite useful for font
development purposes, whether it is at the personal or business level.
Historically, one of the most prominent font editors was Fontographer, originally devel-
oped by Altsys and available for Mac OS and Windows.
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It then became an Aldus product,
but changed hands as part of the Adobe Systems merger, and subsequently became a Mac-
romedia product. It is now a FontLab product, which was partially due to Macromedia’s
merge with Adobe Systems in late 2005.
Fontographer allows its users to create fonts for virtually any platform—Mac OS, Mac OS
X, the various avors of Windows, Unix, Linux, and so on—even if the version of Fontog-
rapher that is running is not designed for that specic platform or OS.
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Fontographer also
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