FontCreator Home Edition 6.0

FontCreator Home Edition 6.0 is an effective program which allows you to create your own signature, logo and handwriting and more with this font editor.

FontCreator has the powerful font-creation tools that typographers and graphic designers require, and an intuitive interface that even allows beginners to become productive immediately.

The editor lets you easily select and modify the entire character set of any TrueType font and fonts based on OpenType font technology. Features include the ability to convert (scanned) images to outlines, thus allowing you to create fonts with your own logo, signature and handwriting. The advanced validation features make the design process easy and help you avoid common mistakes.

Major Features:

1. Font Formats
   • Native TrueType font editor
   • Opens TrueType and OpenType font files (.ttf and .otf)
   • Saves TrueType and OpenType font files (.ttf)
   • Extract TrueType fonts from TrueType Collections
   • Unicode and code page support
2. Outline Editing
   • Basic vector paint tools
   • Guidelines
   • Import vector based images (EPS, AI, PDF, etc)
   • Import raster based images (BMP, GIF, PNG, etc)
   • Manual editing of composite glyphs
3. Test and Installation
   • Preview fonts before installing
   • Font installation wizard
4. Other Features
   • Editing of naming fields (both manual and automatic)
   • Editing of glyph metrics (both manual and automatic)
   • Manual kerning

Enhancements

• Added import vector based images (ai/eps/pdf)
• Improved import raster based images
• Advanced drag and drop support
• Added alphanumeric to the glyph sort feature
• Updated font vendor list
• Background image enhancements
• Improved complete composites
• New feature that copies existing glyph to the background image
• Improved codepage calculation
• Enhanced the Smoothing (Grayscale) window
• Improved cubic to quadratic bezier curve conversion (affects AI/EPS/PDF imports as well as .otf to .ttf conversions)

Requirements:

• Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, NT, Me, 98 or 95
• 24 MB of free disk space