15 projects tagged "fonts"
Updated 12 Apr 2001
Font Viewer
| Pop | 94.80 |
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| Vit | 3.77 |
gfontview is a GTK+ font viewer for PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts. It allows you to display any character or string in a particular font as well as all glyphs present in it. It supports antialiasing and kerning. It can also print font samples and font catalogs.
Updated 06 Jan 2004
ttf2pt1
| Pop | 122.37 |
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| Vit | 3.91 |
ttf2pt1 is a converter of various scalable font formats (most notably TTF) and of the bitmapped BDF format into PostScript Type 1 fonts and metrics (.pfa, .pfb, .afm).
Updated 09 Feb 2002
Alphabet Soup
| Pop | 33.17 |
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| Vit | 64.20 |
Alphabet Soup is a project which attempts to determine a number of things about the shapes of letters in several different writing systems. First, it hypothesizes a set of basic building blocks that all letters are built up from. Second, it hypothesizes a set of rules, a grammar or syntax, which defines how those pieces combine to make different letters. It can generate individual letters, randomize letters in an input string to create weird but readable text, or generate random strings of symbols.
Updated 10 Feb 2003
Hacker's Coloring Book
| Pop | 55.96 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
The Hacker's Coloring book lets you change 11 items fast, compare 2 pages side by side, or make a style sheet. It features hex or decimal numbers, different fonts, and different sizes.
Updated 25 Oct 2003
Fontlinge
| Pop | 89.54 |
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| Vit | 1.45 |
Fontlinge searches for font files, sorts them into folders by name and look and with human readable names, stores gathered font information in a database, generates previews and posters, finds and removes duplicates, and reunites PostScript font families. Also, Fontlinge has a Web interface to browse through your fonts. It shows detail previews and font info, provides font download as a tarball, and has the possibility to sort fonts.
Updated 24 Apr 2004
Opcion Font Viewer
| Pop | 58.99 |
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| Vit | 1.75 |
Opcion Font Viewer is a Java application that allows you to view both installed and uninstalled TrueType fonts on Windows, Linux, Unix, or Mac OS. Unlike the default font viewers supplied with most operating systems, it allows you to view many fonts at a time, giving you the power to set the sample text shown and font style. This makes it easy to choose the best font to use for graphics and multimedia project.
Updated 31 Aug 2008
DoubleType
| Pop | 209.18 |
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| Vit | 4.37 |
DoubleType is an attempt to make a type designer (font editor) that builds TrueType font files. It is designed with collaborative creation in mind. Unlike other programs that work on a single binary file, DoubleType stores each glyph in a separate text file.
Updated 06 Aug 2004
NAFE
| Pop | 54.99 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
nafe (Not Another Font Editor) is a tool to convert Linux console font files into ASCII text files that are human-readable/editable. It also converts this text files back into system-usable PSF font files for display on the Linux text console, thus making font editing easy.
Updated 12 Oct 2006
PDFBox
| Pop | 139.58 |
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| Vit | 2.81 |
PDFBox is a Java library for manipulating PDF documents and extracting contents from existing PDF documents.
Updated 31 Mar 2009
QuesoGLC
| Pop | 56.14 |
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| Vit | 3.95 |
QuesoGLC is a free implementation of the OpenGL Character Renderer. The OpenGL Character Renderer (GLC) is a state machine that provides OpenGL programs with character rendering services including scale and rotate text and draw text using lines, filled triangles, or bitmaps. QuesoGLC is based on the FreeType library, provides Unicode support, and is designed to be easily ported to any platform that supports both FreeType and the OpenGL API.
