BitFontCreator - Bitmap Font Creator
BitFontCreator is a professional bitmap font creator tool for your embedded project, which helps you to create monochrome 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 now has two editions: the Latin Edition and the Unicode Edition.
Latin Edition - BitFontCreator
Version 2.3.1 New!
• Create Windows bitmap fonts file
• Max glyphs: 256
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Unicode Edition - BitFontCreator Pro
Version 2.3.2
• Support Unicode encoding
• Max glyphs: 65536
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Which edition should I choose? See the comparison chart below.
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 and Unicode encoding
- Support 4/8/16/32-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 or Vista
BitFontCreator is available in two editions. This comparison chart shows the differences between the Latin (BitFontCreator) and Unicode (BitFontCreator Pro) edition.
| BitFontCreator (Latin & Unicode editions) | Latin | Unicode |
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| Price (Single user license) |
$128 | $128 |
| Import & Export Fonts | ||
| Import all kinds of Windows fonts |
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| Export bitmap data in 8-bit data length |
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| Export bitmap data in 4/16/32-bit data length |
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| Export bitmap data | |
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| Export C file with jump tables (*.c) |
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| Export binary file (*.dat) |
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| Export Windows font file (*.fnt, *.fon) |
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| Character Encoding | ||
| ASCII encoding |
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| Maximum glyphs |
256 | 65536 |
| Editing Tools | ||
| Pencil, eraser, line, rectangle |
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| Effect tools: Invert, flip | |
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Note: If you want to create Windows bitmap font (*.fon, *.fnt), you should choose the Latin edition- BitFontCreator 2.3.1; If you want to use Unicode characters, that is to say, not limited to Latin characters (0-255), you should choose the Unicode edition - BitFontCreator Pro 2.3.2