ScanFont - 5.0

ScanFont

Turn graphics into fonts. Version 5.0 for Mac and Windows.

• Put a signature, logo or symbol into a font
• Turn someone's handwriting into a font
• Convert old print lettering or letterhead into modern electronic format
• Create symbol fonts

Six simple steps:

• Step 1. Open any bitmap image or a vector illustration — EPS, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIF, directly from a scanner, on Mac OS X also PDF
• Step 2. Improve and adjust the image using transformations, filters and effects — remove background, adjust brightness/contrast and hue/saturation, rotate, sharpen, remove noise, blur
• Step 3. Automatically separate the image into single character shapes — using several presets and customizable precision
• Step 4. Adjust character baselines and remove any unwanted shapes
• Step 5. Export the character shapes into an outline font editor — using a fine-tuneable autotracer, optimized for font creation
• Step 6. Finalize and generate a Type 1, TrueType or OpenType font — using TypeTool, FontLab Studio or AsiaFont Studio.

It includes many powerful automation tools which speed the process so that complete fonts can be prepared from a collection of bitmap images in only minutes. Scanfont includes a complete set of bitmap editing tools for tidying up images before they are converted and a very flexible set of options for the conversion making it possible to accommodate almost any image.