Font editor
Magazine editors , technical terminology also font editors (of English font , "writing") are computer programs for creating and editing fonts for use on the computer.
While in the past mainly bitmap fonts were created and used in many different, mostly proprietary raster graphics formats (for example BDF, Bitmap Distribution Format ), outline fonts in vector formats are common today. Typical representatives are PostScript fonts (especially Type 1 fonts ), TrueType , OpenType , CID-coded fonts and, more rarely, multiple master fonts .
Examples
- METAFONT (since 1979)
- Fontographer (since 1985)
- Fontlab (since 1993)
- FontForge (since 2000, free software )
- Glyphs (since 2011)
- RoboFont (since 2011)
- GNU Font Editor has not been further developed since 2001 in favor of the also free FontForge.
- The editor for user-defined characters from Microsoft ( EUDC-Editor for short , short for End-User Defined Character Editor ) is a simple, pixel-based editor that has been supplied with Microsoft Windows since Windows 2000. It can be started with "Start" → "Run ..." ( Windows key + R) and entering "eudcedit". The editor allows the insertion of user-defined characters either in individual fonts or globally on one of the Unicode points U + E000 to U + F8FF reserved for private use .