To use a font with the font-face css tag must be formatted. EOT and in Explorer. WOFF in Firefox.
http://code.google.com/p/ttf2eot/
ttf2eot is a converter. ttf or. in OTF. EOT .. Works from the console command line. For Windows and Linux.
http://people.mozilla.org/ jkew ~ / WOFF /
sfnt2woff is a converter. to ttf. to OTF. WOFF. Fnciona with command line, from the console. For Mac and Windows.
http://lapin-bleu.net/software/textorizer/
Program to implement a text to an image and then tracing it with full text.
It is the same as the Jave not working purely with ASCII characters to create images with simple text files, but creates vector files (svg) with text boxes that can be rotated, have color, etc.. You can also post the images as png.
Platform: Multi-platform, requires a recent version of Java installed
LICENSE: W3C software license
PRICE: Free
http://www.gnu.org/software/gfe/gfe.html
Font Editor for GNU-Linux. In early stage of development, but only you can download the source code.
Source Editor is a draft program of developing open source edition. Far only been published online in the form of demonstration.
http://www.alphabetsynthesis.com/
Alphabet Syntesis Machine is an interactive work online to create imaginary alphabet or nonexistent. From a drawing of a glyph and setup a series of parameters that govern the automatic creation of an alphabet more or less absurd from this glyph. Once completed the alphabet can be downloaded in TrueType format.
It is a tool for creating professional typography, but an experiment where they tested the boundaries between familiarity and chaos, language and gestures.
PLATFORM: Cross-platform (online)
LICENSE:
PRICE: Free
Doubletype is another project for an open source font editor. It is intended primarily but not exclusively, for Japanese typography.
Download with me I hope to be more user friendly than fontforge , perhaps if you will, for now the project is very recent and have not shot more than a very weak alpha version (years away from the quality of fontforge), is perhaps too early to judge.
PLATFORMS: Windows, Linux. Requires java installed on the machine.
LICENSE: GNU
PRICE: Free
http://fontypython.webfactional.com/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython
Fonty Python is an administrator-sources for GNU / Linux.
License: GNU
Platform: GNU / Linux
Version: Beta 4
Library of free fonts, also share your.
Matrix Manager is a source of sources written in Qt. Its graphical user interface can activate and deactivate fonts easily make it easier for designers who work with many sources. It is quite complete, you preview fonts and glyphs complete information on these, the label allows sources to search by keywords, sources of export catalogs in pdf, binds to the Source Forge for editing fonts directly ...
SIMILAR: Suitcase, ATM
PLATFORMS: Program for Linux. There are previews for Mac OS X and Windows. These are not yet fully functional, but they are expected shortly. In the case of the current version of Windows, lets you view and organize the sources but not actually install them, the team is still working on this feature.
For installing the Windows version is required to have first installed the Visual C + + library is available on the Microsoft website.
LICENSE: GPL
PRICE: Free.
Dfongmgr Debian Font Manager, available in Synaptic, is a font manager for Debian or Ubuntu. This program, which is a GUI for the package Defoma , can activate and deactivate fonts in these systems.
After the installation, to start the program, you must write to the terminal sudo dfontmgr (you must be root to make changes to the source).
Jave is an ASCII editor. Rather than for editing texts, is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters. Is a graphics editor to edit text instead of images. It also converts jpg images to text.
OPERATING SYSTEMS: Multi-platform, requires Java 1.2 or higher installed
LICENSE: Freeware . Can be distributed, but can not modify or decompile. I've included because although it is open source seems nice.
PRICE: Free
DESCRIPTION
Scribus is an open source application for desktop publishing (DTP). Scribus enables designs and layouts for all types of documents such as newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books. It can be placed as tasks and rotate text and images on one page, manually specify the kerning of type, set the separation of the syllables, embedding fonts in PDFs and more.
Scribus supports professional features such as color separation, CMYK, ICC color, import and export of EPSS and creation of commercial quality PDFs that include transparency, encryption, different compressions, and a large set of possibilities as well as PDF 1.4 PDF/X3, including form fields, interactive, etc..
Scribus can import most essential graphics formats (SVG, EPS, JPG, TIFF, PNG ...). The printing is done via its internal Postscript Level 3 driver, including support for embedded font format with True Type, Open Type and Tipe1.
Based on the XML file format is fully documented. To import text has full compatibility with Open Office, but also can be imported RFTs, DOC documents to Microsoft Word and HTML formats.
SIMILAR
Quark Xpress, InDesign or PageMaker
OPERATING SYSTEM
Available in native version for Linux, MacOS and Windows.
FORMATS
PDF 1.4, PDF/X3
INSTALLATION
Whatever your operating system installation is simple. Requires prior installation of Gostscript available on the web page of Scribus.
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net
Source Forge is an open source font editor that lets you create fonts or edit existing ones. With features like Fontographer or Fontlab, allows us to design outline fonts with vector tools and publish them as True Type, Open Type and Postscript Type 1 and Type 3, and bitmap fonts among others. Source Forge allows us to work from importing SVG files, EPS, Bitmap, TIFF and XFig among others, as well as export EPS, PDF, PNG, and bitmap XFig.
SIMILAR: Fontographer, Fontlab
OPERATING SYSTEMS Source Forge can be run on Linux, Macintosh (X11-bearing available in the Apple web-) and Windows (with Cygwin or MinGW-fontforge)
LICENSE: BSD
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