BitFontCreator - Bitmap Font Creator
BitFontCreator is a professional bitmap font creator tool for your embedded project, which helps you to create monochrome / antialiased bitmap fonts for LCD / LED. It just import the font installed on your Windows PC and create a C file representing that font. The C file includes jump tables and bitmap data of all characters.
BitFontCreator is available in 3 editions.
BitFontCreator Grayscale
The Grayscale edition can generate antialiased 2-bpp and 4-bpp fonts, in addition to the standard 1-bpp fonts. It support Latin + Unicode characters.
Free Download | Buy Now ($256 - $188) | Read more
BitFontCreator Pro (Unicode)
The Monochrome Unicode edition, which can only generate the standard 1-bpp fonts, and support Latin + Unicode characters.
Free Download | Buy Now ($188 - $158) | Read more
BitFontCreator (Latin)
The Monochrome Latin edition, which can only generate the standard 1-bpp fonts, and only support Latin characters.
Free Download | Buy Now ($158 - $128) | Read more
Which edition should I choose? See the comparison chart below.
| BitFontCreator Editions | Grayscale | Unicode | Latin |
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| Price (Single user license) |
$188 | $158 | $128 |
| Purchase online |
Buy Now | Buy Now | Buy Now |
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| Import all kinds of Windows fonts |
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| Export antialiased 2-bpp and 4-bpp fonts |
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| Export data in 8/16/32-bit data length |
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| Export C file (*.c) |
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| Export binary file (*.bin) |
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| Export Windows font file (*.fon) |
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| Export Windows font resource file (*.fnt) |
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| ASCII+ISO8859 encoding |
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| Maximum glyphs |
65536 | 65536 | 256 |
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| Pencil, eraser, line, rectangle |
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Key Features:
- Import fonts: Support all kinds of fonts installed on your Windows PC (TrueType, OpenType, Adobe Type 1 and Raster fonts)
- Export fonts: Export Windows font resource (*.fnt) and Windows bitmap font (*.fon) -- Latin Edition ONLY
- Export C file: The C file includes jump tables and bitmap data of all characters
- Export Binary file: The binary file includes the bitmap data of all characters in binary format.
- Support all kinds of bitmap data formats
- Support ASCII+ISO8859 and Unicode encoding
- Support 8/16/32-bits data length
- Edit Tools: Pencil, eraser, line, rectangle, invert, shift, flip and marquee selection
System Requirements
- Pentium II® or higher computer
- 32MB RAM, minimum
- 5.0 MB free hard drive space, minimum
- Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista or Windows 7
- Below is need to create antialiased fonts via BitFontCreator Grayscale
- Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7
- LCD display monitor
- ClearType is turned on
Full Sample Code
Here is the full sample code, based the font "Arial, 10 pt". Four 1-bpp files are generated by BitFontCreator Pro 3.2, and the other four 2-bpp files are generated by BitFontCreator Grayscale 4.0.
Download the full sample code (samplecode.zip) from here:
Download samplecode.zip