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Font manager for True Type and Type 1 fonts.
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Adobe Type Manager Deluxe  Adobe has discontinued the sale and development of Adobe Type Manager (ATM™ Deluxe software for Macintosh and Windows. ATM Light is still available as a free download. Adobe will honor all paid technical support contracts for ATM Deluxe until they...
http://www.adobe.com/products/atm/main.html

Publishers of Printer's Apprentice, a professional font manager for TrueType and Adobe Type 1 font files, and other font utilities for Microsoft Windows.
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Windows Font Manager Printer's Apprentice  Apprentice features printing, installing and uninstalling functions for TrueType, OpenType and Adobe Type 1 font files. The software can even print catalogs and sample sheets for fonts that are not installed. Printer's Apprentice has been featured in PC Magazine, InfoWorld,...
http://www.loseyourmind.com/

An extension that adds several new property tabs to the Windows' font properties dialog box, including information relating to font origination and copyright, the type sizes to which hinting and smoothing are applied, and the code pages supported by extended character sets.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/property/property.htm

A shareware font manager from Alchemy Mindworks Inc. that will install, remove, rename, print a contact sheet and browse TrueType fonts under Windows 95/98/2000/NT, with batch processing and visual previews.
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AMI Font Wrangler  Windows facility for supporting TrueType fonts isn't really matched by its facilities for managing them. While few Windows users will have trouble keeping track of the dozen or so typefaces that come with Windows, there are innumerable sources of much...
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/fontrang.html

Makers of FontAgent, SiteSqueeze and ServerMatic. Depending on the product, versions exist for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS's 8, 9 and X. Free trials.
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Insider Software  Try the latest and greatest, Tiger-ready font management solution. Download Smasher for Mac OS X The performance partner for your Mac OS X font manager. What's New in FontAgent Pro 3? All the reasons you need to upgrade. Upgrade Center...
http://www.insidersoftware.com/

Font Fusion font rendering engine technology.
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font engine font rasterizer technology  The source for the best font engine and font rasterizer technology! What is Font Fusion It is a modern high quality easy to use font engine software component that provides high-quality text rendering suitable for virtually anything from the smallest...
http://www.typesolutions.com/

Shareware package that views fonts (installed or not), prints font catalogs, manages fonts, and installs and uninstalls fonts quickly.
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Always Open: UniTech MyTools.com  E of our most popular software:MyFonts Font ManagerFeature-rich WORKHORSE, and VERY EASY to use. NEW product for Font Professionals:FontTrax 2002 Font ManagerThis is the tool YOU NEED for complete font control. NEW! Rename Your Fonts to Names YOU Like:TrueType Font...
http://www.mytools.com/

Create royalty-free fonts for print, multimedia, and the Internet.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/fontographer/

System enhancement to makes text easier to read and more pleasant to look at.
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Windows 95 font smoother  Font smoothing is one of several system enhancements originally included in the Plus! pack for Windows 95. Now you can make full use of the benefits of this technology, making text easier to read and more pleasant to look at,...
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/grayscal/smoother.htm

Bitstream's latest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, a font subsystem that renders high quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any device.
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Bitstream  Click here if you see this page for more than 5 seconds....
http://www.bitstream.com/categor.../developer/fontfusion/index.html

A free, quality and portable font engine/driver for TrueType fonts.
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The FreeType Project  Type services are moving to Savannah. Please read this page for more information Welcome, please choose your mirror USA http freetype.sourceforge.net Europe (France) http www.freetype.org Europe (Italy) http freetype.fis.uniroma2.it/ Page maintained by David Turner...
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/

Converts the entire character set of a Windows font to a 16 x 16 character map and writes out an uncompressed Windows BMP. Ideal for using proportional fonts in games and speed critical apps.
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FontTool Homepage  ...
http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/skyscraper/floating/699/

Advanced Font Catalog is an easy to use tool with explorer-like interface which allows you to catalog the drives with fonts files. Windows shareware.
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Products Fontutilities  Fontonizer is easy to use Font Organizer that helps you keep track of all your fonts. It identifies and loads all of the fonts installed in the system and shows exactly what each font looks like. It also prints out...
http://www.fontutilities.com/

Scalable graphics library for smooth (anti-aliased) text and vector based graphics with direct support for TrueType, Type 1 and D-Type fonts.
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D-Type Font Engine and Grayscale Rasterizer: smooth, antialiased scalable graphics with TrueType, OpenType, Adobe Type 1 and DType fonts  Type technology is a suite of high-performance portable rendering engines for fast, scalable and high-quality text and resolution and device independent graphics. Our engines are available to application developers for licensing on all major platforms. Learn more Portable, high-performance and...
http://www.d-type.com/

btX is a font subsystem that brings sophisticated font capabilities to the X Windows environment. btX gives Linux the same font presentation as that found on the Macintosh and Windows.
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Bitstream  Click here if you see this page for more than 5 seconds....
http://www.bitstream.com/categories/developer/btx/index.html

Utility for fixing corrupt fonts, duplicate fonts, unmatched fonts, and other font problems.
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Insider Software  ...
http://www.insidersoftware.com/fontagent/

Identify a font with the Identifont online typeface identifier. Answer a few questions about the letters in your sample and see a list of typefaces that match.
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Identifont identify fonts and typefaces  It is ideal if you want to match an existing typeface, or identify a typeface you have seen in a publication.Identifont includes information about fonts from over 200 publishers, including Adobe, Agfa-Monotype, Berthold, Bitstream, Elsner+Flake, FontFont, ITC, Letraset, Linotype, P22,...
http://www.identifont.com/

Training CD which provides an understanding of both screen and printer fonts, ATM Deluxe and working with PostScript, TrueType, and Multiple Master fonts.
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Font Management and ATM Deluxe Interactive Training Online at CMU  Keep your font growth and organization in check by understanding the hows and whys of font usage. Written by Taz Talley, desktop publishing guru, this course will help you understand how screen and printer fonts work, give technical hints on...
http://www.cornermark.com/training/fontmanagement.html

Steve Gibson explains subpixel rendering as used in Microsoft ClearType, shows how it originally worked on the Apple II, and provides a 35k Windows program to experiment with subpixel rendering.
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The Free Clear Demo  The theory of how this should be done was instantly clear 151; especially since we'd seen it all before (see The True Origins of these Ideas But the color fringing problem (see Turning Theory into Practice 151; which turns out...
http://grc.com/freeandclear.htm

Overview of Bitstream's dynamic font technology, FAQs, examples, free downloadable samples and information on Bitstream WebFont Maker software.
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TrueDoc  Click here if you see this page for more than 5 seconds....
http://www.truedoc.com/

Typography tools for editing, converting, designing, and manipulating digital typefaces and font families.
http://www.fontlab.com/

The first typeface identification software, recognizing more than 25,000 typefaces, available on CD-ROM and as online service on the web.
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FontExpert online Font Identification  FontExpert online Version 3.0 Font Identification Web Service Schriftenerkennung im Internet English Deutsch Copyright 2003 by FontExpert GmbH. All rights reserved. Impressum Reviews Testberichte Windows NT/2k/XP Support...
http://www.fontexpert.com/

A complete and clear explanation of Microsoft's 'ClearType' Technology, including a freeware demo application.
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Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Technology  There can be no doubt that the NEXT BIG THINGto happen to personal computing color LCD displays willbe their adoption of sub-pixel font rendering technology. It is my hope that the pages on this little web site will help to...
http://grc.com/cleartype.htm

Font management tool that allows one to use TrueType fonts without having to install them.
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Font Runner  Application designed to help you manage, preview, install and use TrueType fonts. Unlike any other font management utility, Font Runner allows you to view and try fonts regardless of whether they have even been installed! Ever get a CD full...
http://www.fontrunner.com/fontrunner/

A native Type 1 font editor. It can be used to open, change and save PostScript Type 1 (PFB) fonts and their metric (PFM) files. [Win 3.1/9x/NT]
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yeahnoah/index.html

Professional software Development Company focused on creating quality font applications for the publishing industry. Products include FontDoctor, FontXpress, and FontVista.
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http://morrisonsoftdesign.com/

Install new fonts on the computer quickly and easily. Look at any font, and how it will be installed on the computer.
http://www.al-soft.com/font_installer.shtml

Software designed for viewing installed fonts on the computer.
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SunRav Fonter view your favorites fonts with easy.  Fonter is designed for viewing fonts, installed on your PC. You simply enter a phrase and the program shows this phrase in different fonts. Thus you can clearly see your phrase written in different fonts. Program features Full font customization...
http://www.sunrav.com/products/srfonter/

Shareware application to view installed and external fonts or preview and install fonts.
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FontMap Description  ...
http://www.ccountry.net/~dix/fontmap.htm

Software shows all the 256 ASCII character set available from the selected font, and the decimal, hexadecimal, binary and octal equivalencies, and the needed keystrokes, including the control's characters.
http://webs.sinectis.com.ar/alejand/acentos/Iacentos.htm

Checks your fonts and operating system for support of the Euro symbol. Freeware.
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EuroCheck verifies your fonts, printer, keyboard for euro symbol support  Get one of the best truetype, type1 and opentype font management software Get Typograf now font manager euro symbol fonts EUR char test verify typeface check type EuroCheck checks your fonts, printer, keyboard and operating system for euro symbol support....
http://www.neuber.com/free/eurocheck/index.html

A small program useful for viewing the TrueType fonts installed on your Windows system.
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Software Design FontShow for Windows by Gregory Braun  Type fonts installed on your system. Options are included to display user-specified sample text in place of the normal font name and alphanumeric character set. The size and face of the currently selected font can be quickly changed and the...
http://www.gregorybraun.com/FontShow.html

Font conversion program for anyone who needs more typefaces, wants to create new variations of fonts, or wants to use their typefaces in a broader variety of applications.
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AllType.biz 1st in Font Conversion Technology and Services  Converter will evolve into a Web-based typeface conversion service. Until we are completely automated with a trialware converter, E-Commerce front-end, etc we will only accept orders for custom typeface conversion projects with a minimum order amount of US$300. We plan...
http://www.alltype.biz/

Easily create, design, edit and modify True Type Fonts. Use the modified fonts in Windows 3.11 and higher. Convert bitmaps to glyphs.
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High-Logic Font Creator Font Editor  Creator puts font creation within the grasp of the average PC user, typographers and graphic designers. The editor lets you easily select and modify the entire character set of any TrueType font and fonts based on OpenType font technology. Features...
http://www.high-logic.com/fcp.html

Software for font design, creation, conversion, editing and manipulation: FontLab, ScanFont, TypeTool, TransType, FONmaker, and FontLab Composer.
http://www.pyrus.com/

Freeware, shareware, and commercial font editing, managing, and converting tools. Mac and PC.
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Bargain Font Tools  There is a plethora of font tools available on the web. some are free, some shareware, others commercial. We've collected as many as we could find here so that you can pick and choose and judge which are best for...
http://free-font-tools.com

Font conversion utility to make and modify pixel font libraries. Pixel font library can be used for any kind of LCD that need display pixel font. Save the library into a C source file. Software descriptions, FAQs, and downloads.
http://pixelsoft.topcities.com/

Converts nearly all True Type fonts to an Adobe Type 1 .pfa file.
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True Type Font to Postscript type 1 Converter  I was dissapointed that all the fonts kept appearing blocky and jaggered (I hadn't set up X properly) Fortunately X11 can use Adobe Type 1 fonts (both .pfb and .pfa There are a large amount of Type 1 fonts available...
http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net/

Shareware font browsing and preview software, viewed in bold, italic, underlined and strikethrough or any combination of these settings.
http://www.practicalsoftwaresolutions.net/fontexplorer

Font management utility that uses an HTML like interface for viewing and printing fonts.
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Font viewer for viewing fonts install on win  Font viewer the font viewer Font viewer help to pick a font. It uses a HTML for viewing fonts, installed on your windows. Font viewer view all fonts installed on win. Font viewer print the list of fonts. Font viewer...
http://www.ababasoft.com/fonter.htm

The module looks for TrueType/OpenType-fonts, and stores them in an ASCII-database that can easily be imported by database-applications.
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Fontlinge  Selberdenker und zwarkreuzweise! Viewed best with any browser. From: Reich der Erfindungen, Gondrom Verlag, 1901...
http://www.gesindel.de/index.php

Basic program that allows all fonts installed on a system to be viewed simultaneously, with example text written in each font displayed alongside. Print out samples of the text, in all accessible variants of writing. [Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP]
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Windows XP Font Viewer, Free and Easy Font Viewer, Advanced Fonts Viewer  Viewer is a comprehensive application, which is ideal for viewing, printing and managing your fonts. A full-featured font viewer quickly generates a high-quality display of your fonts. With AFV you will be able: To simultaneously view all fonts installed. To...
http://www.styopkin.com/

Free utility to preview True Type Fonts.
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http://www.imnaishvili.de/ttfpreview/

A postscript font editor to create postscript, TrueType, opentype, cid-keyed and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also, convert one format to another.
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FontForge  An outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many...
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

Softy is a shareware editor for TrueType and Bitmap fonts.
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Dave Emmett's Softy Support Page  Softy allows you to create and update TrueType and bitmap fonts. It runs under Windows (3.1, 95, 98, NT and requires a 386 or better. Supported bitmap font formats are at present Windows FON and FNT, and LaserJet SFP and...
http://users.breathe.com/l-emmett/