http://lapin-bleu.net/software/textorizer/
Program to implement a text to an image, and the Self-complete with that text.
It is not the same as Jave not working purely ASCII characters to create images with simple text files, but creates vector files (SVG) with text boxes that can be Rotadent, have color, etc.. You can also post images as PNG.
Platform: Multiplatform 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 can only download the source code.
Font Editor project is a free editing program source development. Is currently only released in demo form online.
http://www.alphabetsynthesis.com/
Alphabet Syntesis Machine is an interactive work online to create imaginary alphabet or nonexistent. Starting from a drawing of glyphs and setting a series of parameters that govern the automatic creation of an alphabet more or less absurd from this glyph. Once completed script can be downloaded in True Type format.
It is a tool for creating professional typesetting, but an experiment where the limits are tested at between familiarity and chaos, language and gestures.
Platform: Multiplatform (online)
LICENSE:
PRICE: Free
DoubleType is another project for a publisher of open source fonts. It is intended primarily but not exclusively, by Japanese typography.
I downloaded it for me with hope that was more user friendly than fontforge , perhaps if you will, for the moment the project is very recent and have not taken more than an alpha version pretty skinny (years away from the quality of fontforge), is perhaps too early to judge.
Platform: Windows, Linux. Requires Java installed on the machine.
License: Free
PRICE: Free
http://fontypython.webfactional.com/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fontypython
Fontys-Python is a font manager for Linux.
License: Free
Platform: Linux
Version 4 Beta
NexusFont is a Freeware font manager for Windows. Allows you to see the sources, activate them and deactivate them from any folder without having to give it administrator privileges to install the system fonts folder.
Platform: Windows.
License: Freeware. Note that it is free but not free.
PRICE: Free.
Bookstore open sources, also share your.
Matrix is a font manager written in Qt sources. Its graphical user interface allows you to easily enable and disable fonts, make it easier for designers who work with many sources. It's pretty full now preview fonts and glyphs complete information of these, label sources allows for searches by keyword, source catalogs in pdf export, binds to the Source Forge for editing fonts directly ...
Similar Suitcase, ATM
Platform: Linux Program. There are previews for Windows and Mac OS X. 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 the installation of the Windows version is required to have first installed the Visual C + + library available on the Microsoft.
License: GPL
PRICE: Free.
Dfongmgr Debian Font Manager, available in Synaptic is a font manager for Debian or Ubuntu. This program, which is a graphical user interface for package Defoma , can activate and deactivate fonts in these systems.
After the installation, to start the program, write to the terminal sudo dfontmgr (you must be root to make changes to the sources).
Jave is an ASCII editor. Rather than for editing texts, intended for drawing simple diagrams by using ASCII characters. It's like a graphics editor to edit text instead of images. It also allows you to convert jpg images to text.
OPERATING SYSTEMS: Multi-platform, requires Java 1.2 or higher installed
Licence: Freeware . You can distribute, but can not be modified or decompiler. I've included because although it is not open source seems sympathetic.
PRICE: Free
DESCRIPTION
Scribus is an open source application for desktop publishing (DTP). Scribus allows maquetacions designs and all types of documents, such as newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books. It can be placed as tasks and rotate text and images on a page, specify manual kerning of the fonts, set the separation of syllables, embed 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 game of chance and PDF/X3 PDF 1.4, including form fields, interactive, etc..
Scribus can import most file formats (SVG, EPS, JPG, TIFF, PNG ...). The printing is done via your internal Postscript Level 3 driver, including support for font embedding format 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 you can also import RFTs, Microsoft Word documents DOC 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
In any of its operating system installation is simple. Requires prior installation of Gostscript, available on the same website Scribus.
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net
Source Forge is a publisher of open source code that allows us to create fonts or edit existing ones. With features like Fontographer or Fontlab, allows us to design tools with outline fonts and vector publish them as True Type, Open Type and Postscript Type 1 and Type 3, as well as bitmap fonts among others. Source Forge allows us to work from the import file SVG, EPS, bitmap, TIFF and others Xfig and export EPS, PDF, PNG, and bitmap Xfig.
Similar Fontographer, Fontlab
OPERATING SYSTEMS Source Forge can be run on Linux, Macintosh (X11-bearing available on the web-Apple) and Windows (with Cygwin or MinGW-fontforge)
LICENSE: BSD
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