FontCreator

Welcome to the documentation for FontCreator, a Python/C++ based bitmap font generator.

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Features

The FontCreator has many great features:

  • Multiple platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows)

  • Performance

  • Layer support

  • Color functions

  • Effect functions

  • Blend functions

  • Post effects

  • Single/Pair Kerning support

  • Unicode support

  • Command line support

  • Texture rendering:

    • The default renderer uses binpacking to minimize texture waste
    • Plugin functionality for user specified rendering
  • Texture save formats:

    • Texture formats supported by PIL (.png, .tga, .jpg etc)
    • Plugin functionality for user specified format
  • Glyph save formats:

    • Built in json format
    • Plugin functionality for user specified format

License

(zlib license: http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib)

Copyright (c) 2013 Mathias Westerdahl

This software is provided ‘AS-IS’, without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

  1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
  2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
  3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

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