Description:
Utilities to manipulate Palm fonts, in v1 and v2 formats: afnx, nfnt (lo/hi/both densities), NFNT, conversion from Type 1/TrueType/BDF/PCF/etc. Anti-aliased font support.
Most of the utilities are command-line based and run from a DOS prompt, but there is a Plucker 1.6 font generator with a somewhat friendly GUI.
Source code is included so you can recompile for Linux or Mac.
FreeType2 based. GPL. Includes URW PostScript fonts as a sample.
Update Description:
v1.60:
- FontSubst support in toFontSmoother.tcl
v1.55:
- Support for FontSmoother FontHackV fonts.
v1.50:
- FontSmoother support.
v1.34:
- Fix Hebrew qof-dagesh
v1.10 update:
- Allow per-character tweaks of horizontal metrics
v1.04 update:
- Added security warning re. job configurations from untrusted sources
v1.03 update:
- Run option to toplucker to run job configuration from command line
v1.02 update:
- Save/load toplucker job
v1.01 update:
- Toplucker UI interface enhancement--easier to change all font sizes at once
v1.00 update:
- UI enhancements
- Fake bold generation
- Vertical metric matching.
v0.99 update:
- Full GreekKeys support, including PalmBible+ extensions.
v0.97 update:
- Almost complete GreekKeys encoding support
- And more PalmBible+ support
v0.90 update:
- Better even width forcing
- And FontSubst support.
v0.85 update:
- Even width forcing option for nicer character spacing in non-anti-aliased fonts.
v0.77 update:
- Fix bug with kerning and ... character.
v0.75 update:
- Includes preliminary support for Fonts4OS5 fonts.
v0.70 update:
- Includes support for kerned antialiased (only) fonts (for the latest Plucker).
v0.60 update:
- Includes support for Plucker italic fonts.
