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libtholoura is a text-image distortion library, which is useful for sites that want to ensure that a human (and not a bot) is viewing pages. It is optimized to produce images of strings distorted in a way that makes it impossible for an OCR to read, but humans can. The library takes a string (preferably ASCII) string and is able to dynamically produce PNG indexed images. The distortion filters are external plugins.
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The jmk-x11-fonts package contains character-cell fonts for use with the X Window System. These fonts attempt to be practical while also remaining both legible and aesthetically pleasing. A wide variety of font sizes are available in both medium and bold weights and in a number of ISO-8859 standard encodings.
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Hamster Font Manager (HFM) helps you control the avaliability of fonts in all of the supported applications from a central place. It includes modules to support X11, Ghostscript, and TeX. A PostScript module handles PS Fonts while other fonts remain unto
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The Hacker's Coloring book lets you change 11 items fast, compare 2 pages side by side, or make a style sheet. It features hex or decimal numbers, different fonts, and different sizes.
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GnuMICR is a Postscript Type 1 Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) font. It can be used for the numbers and symbols at the bottom of bank drafts, to encode routing and account number information. A converted True Type version is also included.
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The fontutils package includes the programs bpltobzr, bzrto, charspace, fontconvert, gsrenderfont, imageto, imgrotate, limn, and xbfe. These create fonts for use with Ghostscript or TeX (starting with a scanned type image and converting the bitmaps to outlines), convert between font formats, etc. The package also includes the libraries libbzr.a, libgf.a, libpbm.a, libpk.a, libtfm.a, and libwidgets.a.
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Glyphtracer takes a picture of several letters. It detects individual letters and allows the user to tag them to Unicode code points. These are then vectorized and passed to Fontforge for finalization.
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gfontview is a GTK+ font viewer for PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts. It allows you to display any character or string in a particular font as well as all glyphs present in it. It supports antialiasing and kerning. It can also print font samples and font catalogs.
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GNU font editor (GFE) is an integrated font editor at an early stage of development. Currently, it can edit only BDF font files.
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gbdfed is a GTK+-based BDF font editor. Multiple fonts can be loaded from the command line. Multiple fonts can be open at the same time. Cutting and pasting glyphs between fonts, font name and property editing, and built-in online help. It imports PK/GF, HBF, PSF, CP, Linux FNT, VFONT, OpenType/TrueType, and some FON/FNT fonts. It can export PSF2 fonts.
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FreeType 2 is a high-quality and portable font engine that is capable of supporting several font formats (be they bitmapped or scalable) through a simple and uniform interface. Its design is modular and allows independent "font driver" modules to be added, even at runtime, to support additional formats. It also provides a high-quality anti-aliasing renderer, an innovative auto-hinting engine, and support for the following font formats: TrueType Type1, CID-Type 1, Multiple Masters Type 1 OpenType/CFF, pure CFF, and CEF Windows FNT/FON.
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TTX is a tool to convert OpenType and TrueType fonts to and from XML. FontTools is a Python library for manipulating fonts. It supports TrueType, OpenType, AFM, (to an extent) Type 1, and some Mac-specific formats.
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fonts-tweak-tool provides users with a GUI for customizing desktop fonts per language, and generic alias families.
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FONTpage is a utility for viewing, managing, and generating images of fonts. It can install and delete per-user fonts as well as (when run as root) system-wide fonts. It displays fonts, has a full alpha-numeric popup window, and allows you to change the font size and color, background color, font face, bold, and italics. It also has the ability to input the text to be displayed, which you can choose to save as a PNG file. It is handy to view fonts and styles quickly, or to make "logo" graphics. And naturally, it is a simple way to try out fonts without dipping into the command line. The source code as well as Slackware packages are available.
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Fontmonk is a PyGTK-based interface to FontForge that lets you convert a set of fonts with ease. It has support for a large set of font formats, including TrueType, OpenType, and SVG.
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