I hasten to introduce you to the Alphabix program - a convenient application designed to help you create and edit, as well as convert raster fonts. The authors write that they strongly recommend its use to users who want to create dynamic text templates or 3D titles for websites or projects created in BluffTitler.

From within the menu, you can add and change font characters and glyph heights, and access glyph or kerning editors. One editor can help you replace glyphs with PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF, and JPG images, while the second makes it easy to adjust the spacing between certain pairs.


That's not all, each of you will be able to convert any TrueType, OpenType and Type 1 fonts installed on your computer system, remove non-ASCII characters and crop them vertically. Alphabix allows you to import Photofonts as well as export your designs as separate files.

FUNCTIONS

Convert vector fonts to raster fonts:
Alphabix can convert any True Type, Open Type and Type 1 font installed on your system. You can set the character range (characters you want to convert), character set, size, color, size and border color.

Replace characters with pictures:
Any character can be replaced with any PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF or JPG image. Alpha channels are imported correctly.

Full color raster fonts:
Vector fonts such as True Type (TTF) do not contain any color information. Raster fonts are full color.

Bitmap fonts are very detailed:
Complex shapes are difficult to vectorize and expensive to process. Bitmap fonts can handle fine details more efficiently.

Bitmap fonts are easy to create:
If you know how to draw an image in a drawing app, you can create your own bitmap font.

Bitmap fonts are always antialiased:
Even on older video cards that don't have good quality hardware anti-aliasing, bitmap fonts are anti-aliased because the texture file generated by Alphabix has perfect anti-aliasing.

Bitmap fonts do not scale:
The disadvantage of bitmap fonts is that they do not scale. The edge of a vector font remains razor-sharp no matter how close you zoom in. However, when the bitmap font is enlarged, individual pixels become visible