FontForge is a tool designed as an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones.

Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats.

FontForge's user interface has been localized for: (English), Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, Simplified Chinese, German, Polish, Spanish, Vietnamese, Greek.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Extensive patch by Alexey Kryukov to support composites (references) in bitmap fonts.
· Copy/Paste bitmap references
· Output into sfnts
· sfd extension
· Fix them up so that bitmap formats which don't support them have them unlinked
· Support for the JSTF table (sfd extension), new dialog Element->Other info->Justification.
Add a set of new python functions for manipulating CID keyed fonts:
· cidConvertTo(registry,ordering,supplement)
· cidConvertByCmap(filename)
· cidFlatten()
· cidFlattenByCmap(filename)
· cidInsertBlankSubFont()
· cidRemoveSubFont()
· Add support for reading/writing version 1.8 of Adobe's feature file format (while, I hope, retaining the ability to read version 1.6). Fix a number of bugs in parsing feature files.
· The new format is considerably better than the old and can now be used to express almost all of OpenType.
· ability to name anchors and value records and use them later.
· contourpoints used to be expressed as "" and are now expressed as "contourpoint 2" (no brokets). Adobe does ...