How to generate bdf fonts
manojgnath
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Can some one guide me how to generate BDF fonts? Is there any specif tools available to generate it. Is BDF fonts is going to support kern space
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FontForge can edit BDF files. Note that this is dead technology – since more than 20 years...
Perhaps you mean something different?2 -
There is a BDF plugin for Glyphs.app, too: https://github.com/schriftgestalt/BDFFileFormat1
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BDF is an ancient bitmap font format from the 1980s.
FontLab’s BitFonter can generate BDF files. This is a tool we keep available only because there is so little else that does these functions—we no longer develop or maintain it, although we support it as best we can.1 -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitmap_Distribution_Format No support for kerning in the format AFAIK. You can always maintain a kerning database for each strike size in a separate file.0
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I miss BDF. I used it to make grayscale bitmaps to embed into TT fonts. Less than 20 years ago.
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There's also a Python BDF module. I haven't used it myself, though.4
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curious to know where this is still used. We think it's "dead", but that doesn't mean some electronic sign system isn't still using it?3
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As recently as July of last year I advised some folks who were working on fonts for "feature phones" on a TTF to BDF conversion.1
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Does BitFonter supports KERN SPACES to develop BDF Fonts in Indic scripts like Devnagari, Bengali Telugu etc
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Thank you every one for your valuable comment
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@Si, would that be something like this project? https://dbader.org/blog/monochrome-font-rendering-with-freetype-and-python
The code seems complete, apart from the BDF file specifics (which are not too daunting).0
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