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FONT TOOLS & PROGRAMS

 

Here are some great programs and utilities for use in managing your fonts.

Adobe Type Manager - Lite
 
A free font utility for viewing and printing PostScript fonts. With ATM you can scale your fonts without the characters appearing jagged and you can print PostScript fonts on non-PostScript printers. ATM uses on both Windows and Macintosh platforms are highlighted here.

Adobe Type Manager – Deluxe for Windows 
Lets you organize your PostScript Type 1, OpenType, and TrueType fonts to suit the way you work. In seconds, you can activate only the fonts or font sets you need, and then deactivate them when you've finished. From adding fonts and creating custom sets to getting crisp, clean output from any printer, ATM Deluxe is packed with powerful features for managing your fonts.

Adobe Type Manager – Deluxe for Macintosh  
Lets you organize your PostScript Type 1, OpenType, and TrueType fonts to suit the way you work. In seconds, you can activate only the fonts or font sets you need, and then deactivate them when you've finished. From adding fonts and creating custom sets to getting crisp, clean output from any printer, ATM Deluxe is packed with powerful features for managing your fonts.

Crossfont
This is a popular font converter that is very reliable. You can convert Macintosh TrueType and PostScript Type1 fonts to Windows format and Windows TrueType and Type1 fonts to Macintosh format and generate associated font files.

Extensis Suitcase 10
The world's best-selling font manager. It’s a fast and easy way to get the fonts you need when you need them. Packed with automated features that help you activate, organize and preview your fonts, Suitcase handles your fonts so you don't have to.

FonMaker
Converts TT fonts into bitmap formats.

Font Agent
A font repair and organization utility that eliminates corrupt, duplicate, and unmatched fonts and creates an organized font library you can depend on. FontAgent puts an end to font headaches forever. Works great with Suitcase, Font Reserve, and ATM Deluxe.

Font Reserve
A font management tool available for both Mac and PC. Font Reserve stores your fonts safely in a vault. It also auto-activates them plus it lets you organize them in sets. You can also sort fonts using a variety of filters, view fonts, and print out specimen sheets.

Font Review
A font viewing tool for Windows 95/98/NT4/2000. FontReview hooks into the Windows Explorer interface and lets you quickly and easily view both installed and uninstalled TrueType fonts.

FontLister
A great program that lists all of the fonts in your Fonts Directory, on your font CDs (even without first installing them!), and more. It’s a fast font manager for Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. With this program you'll never have troubles finding a font for a special task.

Macromedia Fontographer
A program that enables you to modify various fonts or tweak them for special effects.

Microsoft Typography
Utilities and tools to help you learn about the benefits and features of TrueType, the world's most popular digital font format, used by millions of Windows and Macintosh users every day. The aim is to help people use type in more imaginative and innovative ways across a wide range of media, including print, video and the Web.

Multiple Masters
The Multiple Master font technology from Adobe Systems allows you to create entirely new fonts that may be a little bolder, condensed, expanded, or any combination - while maintaining the correct proportions, stroke width changes, and other subtle design characteristics of the original typeface.

Printer’s Apprentice
A tool for managing font files on Windows 95 and NT4.0 systems. It works with both TrueType and Adobe Type 1 (ATM) fonts. You can print specimen pages and font lists for both installed and uninstalled fonts.

ScanFon
Converts bitmaps into TT or T1 fonts.

Type Designer
Design your own fonts or modify an existing one, in either Adobe Type 1 or TrueType format. Includes Type 1 to TrueType converter.

Transtype
Here’s a great cross platform font converter that is very popular today. You can convert Mac TrueType and Type 1 fonts to PC platform or convert PC TrueType and Type 1 fonts to Mac platform.

TrueType, PostScript Type 1 & OpenType
What's the difference? This is THE guide to the various font formats.

TTConverter
Converts TrueType fonts between Mac and Windows formats.

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