Free Bitmap Font Editor (.FON Files)?? GDNet Lounge Community. Started by Extrarius August 04, 2004 09:59 PM. 3 comments, last by Extrarius 16 years, 3. BitFonter is a professional bitmap font editor for Windows (with limited capabilities to run on macOS up to 10.14 Mojave as well, not on 10.15 Catalina). With BitFonter, you can create and edit bitmap fonts for print publications, web pages, animations, computer games and electronic devices.
Hi there! Here you can find good desktop application for drawing monochrome bitmap fontsdedicated for embedded systems which have some kind of low-resolution displays. For example, LEDmatrices. By the way you may see them on a street in a form of various small information tables.Let's say, a table with next station name in a bus.
When you open the application (further - 'Editor'), you see something looking likeon a figure 1. You can load some font in specific SGFED format (link for a sample 8x8 font - below) or drawit from scratch. Or even render it from any system font currently installed. The simplest instrument for drawingof course is a pencil working pixel-by-pixel. Other instruments offer an option to move and stretch arbitraryregions on a drawing canvas (left side of the main window). And placing monochrome bitmap image onto acanvas.
Most interesting thing is an ability to export created font into a binary or text data blob acceptable forusage in an embedded system. There is a comprehensive exporting procedure with many options inside Editor.Moreover Editor can be driven from scripts to get values of separate symbols and their pixels in caseif the exporting procedure's opportunities are not enough for your purposes.
32-bit installer for Windows - Direct Download.
Sample 8x8 font - Direct Download.
The application was written originally for 32-bit Windows 98/XP in 2004-2005. Visual Studio 2003 withMFC toolkit was used in those days. Recently in 2019 I've spent some time to make refactoring andimprovement and rebuild it under fresh Visual Studio 2017 for recent versions of Windows (debuggedunder Windows 7). Despite my current position regarding MFCit's still there and the app is not cross-compiled under other operation systems. But I've checkedit under 'Wine' compatibility layer in Linux and it looks fine.
You are welcome to write me, Vyacheslav Grigoryev, about any found bugs or possible further improvements. Please use on this domain.Or contact with me by any means described in Editor's help, 'Introduction' page.The only thing which I need to mention is that the program is free software. I get no fee for it. So will work onimprovements if I have a passion. But fixing bugs has higher priority for me.
Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/vyacheslav-grigoryev-58360941