Bitmap Font Editor Windows



- A Better Bitmap Font for Windows

  • A free, high-quality, and portable font engine FreeType is written in C. It is designed to be small, efficient, and highly customizable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats for digital typography. FreeType is a freely available and portable software library to render fonts.
  • Here is the type of fonts Fony can load and edit: Windows bitmap fonts (FON, FNT). TrueType vector fonts. Amiga bitmap fonts. BDF bitmap fonts. Bitmap Font Writer bitmaps. Formats that can be saved: Windows bitmap fonts (FON, FNT). BDF bitmap fonts. Bitmap Font Writer bitmaps. Custom bitmaps. Raw binary data.

It allows editing multiple fonts and multiple glyphs, it allows cut and paste operations between fonts and glyphs and editing font properties. The editor works natively with BDF fonts. Gbdfed can import: Metafont PK/GF fonts. New Bitmap Font Creator Available! - posted in Other Third-Party Tools: Hi fellow devs!

Fixed Width Fonts

Some Windows' applications - like program development environments - work effectively only with 'monospaced', or fixed width fonts. Other applications involving a lot of text and numeric entry - data base systems, spreadsheets, etc., - are much easier to use with monospaced fonts.

Windows includes a limited set of both vector (scalable) and raster (bitmap) monospaced fonts that it makes available to its applications.

The available vectorTrueType fonts might include:-

Facename Filenames
Courier New COUR*.TTF
Lucida Console LUCON.TTF
Andale Mono ANDALEMO.TTF
Letter Gothic MT LC*.TTF
MS Linedraw LINEDRAW.TTF

The available raster fonts probably only include:-

Facename Filenames
Courier 10,12,15 COURF.FON
Fixedsys VGAFIX.FON
Terminal VGAOEM.FON
Terminal 8514OEM.FON

While the raster fonts are more legible than the vector fonts - especially at small point sizes - all these fonts are poor choices for intensive screen work.

The character glyphs are small, thin and indistinct and many individual characters are easily confused (0 and O, 1, land I, 2 and Z, 8 and B, (, { and [.)

The raster fonts include too few point sizes to be effective and flexible choices at different monitor resolutions.

Font

HVRaster - A Hi-Visibility Monospaced Raster Font

HVRasteris a OEM Codepage 437 monospaced bitmap font. (If you prefer TrueType fonts, our HVEdit suite provides TrueType alternatives.)

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Clickon the image below to see a comparison of the HVRaster Programmers Editor Font with the fonts available in Windows.

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Click on the image below to see a screen shot of the HVRaster fonts being used in a programmer's editor.

TheLicensed version of theHVRaster.FONfile provides theHVFontin three different widths - Standard, Narrow and Wide - and over 20 different sizes from 6x7 pixel glyphs (5 points) to 14x30 (23 points).

Clickon the image below to see some of the HVRaster fonts sizes included.

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The Evaluation version has a subset of five of the Standard width fonts in glyph sizes from 8x12 to 14x30.

Click here to download an Evaluation version of the HVRaster font package.

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Click here to purchase one of PROCON's HVFont packages.

Need help with XSLT V1.0 conversion.

Very nice, flexible font & bitmap generator!

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I have used Frank Vannieuwkerke's transformation file however I would like to create output files that result in uint16_t 16-bit data font files rather than the 8-bit unsigned integer char files it currently provides. I have no previous experience with XSLT transformations however upon studying the architecture, I have learned enough to get me into trouble and stuck only partially meeting my objective. A 16-bit font file structure would reduce overhead processing for my application leaving resources to focus more on other processing requirements instead of assembling 8-bit data into 16-bit font conversions.The schema of the temporary XML file output of the program which the XSL transformation stylesheet would be based upon is here: /media/uploads/dtmort/testxmlout

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I can manipulate some of the XSL stylesheet however I am out of my element attempting concatenation of the hexadecimal 'byte' elements into half as many 16-bit 'words' as well as the recursive index generation to match.

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Having zero experience with this leaves me at a deficit. Any help is appreciated.

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Need help with XSLT V1.0 conversion. Very nice, flexible font & bitmap generator! I have used Frank Vannieuwkerke's transformation file however I would like to create output files that result in uint16_t 16-bit data font files rather than the 8-bit unsigned integer char files it currently provides. I have no previous experience with XSLT transformations however upon studying the architecture, I have learned enough to get me into trouble and stuck only partially meeting my objective. A 16-bit font file structure would reduce overhead processing for my application leaving resources to focus more on other processing requirements instead of assembling 8-bit data into 16-bit font conversions.The schema of the temporary XML file output of the program which the XSL transformation stylesheet would be based upon is here: [[/media/uploads/dtmort/testxmlout]] I can manipulate some of the XSL stylesheet however I am out of my element attempting concatenation of the hexadecimal 'byte' elements into half as many 16-bit 'words' as well as the recursive index generation to match. Having zero experience with this leaves me at a deficit. Any help is appreciated.