font-editor

Looking for freeware Postscript font editor

I have been looking for a good freeware Postscript Type 1 font editor (for Windows XP). All freeware font editors I have come across deal only with Bitmap, True Type or Open Type fonts. (I could only find FontForge but its download option leads to a maze and I am ashamed to say that I found no way out.) If freeware isn't available, the...

Editing true type fonts

In typical Persian fonts which are True Type, there is a historical problem with yeh and kafs, since these fonts are created for Windows 98, which didn't include full Persian support, and now, we have 2 kind of Kafs: Keheh(0x6a9, ک), and Arabic Kaf(0x643, ك), and 2 kind of Yehs: Farsi Yeh(0x6cc, ی), and Arabic Yeh(0x64a, ي). Old fonts us...

User-created Programming Fonts: Possible?

Hi all, I really hate all my options with programming fonts. I have fairly particular tastes though: I prefer non-monowidth, since in my opinion there's no reason for the characters to be in columns. I prefer minimal line spacing, to fit more code on the screen. I will not use fonts that change size when you're selecting them. I'd prefe...