Fontrast 1.33 is a Font Software product from hexforge.com, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, Fontrast is a software designed to create high quality textures from Windows TrueType fonts. These textures can be incorporated into your own Direct3D or OpenGL applications, to produce beautifully rendered, smooth-looking text.
Create high quality bitmapped textures from Windows TrueType fonts. Import your ASCII or Unicode text files and select your desired font typeface to produce a texture page containing all the characters required to render your text. Using the flexible layout and rendering options, create smooth, anti-aliased fonts for use in your OpenGL, DirectX or other graphical applications. Textures can be generated in BMP, JPG, PNG, RAW or TGA formats. The included manual explains the various output formats in outstanding detail (with diagrams where appropriate), making integration with your own programs a breeze.
Fontrast Features:
* Produce textures from any TrueType font installed on your system
* Apply styles such as Bold or Italic
* Create pixel-accurate versions of fonts as they appear in Windows, or supersample up to 8x for perfect antialiasing
* Customisable character proportions and spacing
* Generate textures in BMP, JPG, PNG, RAW and TGA formats, in a variety of bit depths and compression modes.
* Where supported by your chosen image format, generate an alpha channel for smooth blending with background graphics
* Output offset tables in easy-to-read ASCII/Unicode (text) or compact binary formats
* Flexible character set support. Simply select from predefined character groups and/or create your own custom character set from ASCII or Unicode text files (Unicode format requires Windows 2000, XP or later) The license of this design software is Free Trial Software, the price is $15, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Fontrast, you can buy this design software.