ScanFont

New Features

• Support for grayscale and color – from simple black-and-white to 32-bit color with smooth transparency
• Direct import of EPS graphics – assists you in turning your Adobe Illustrator® drawings into a font
• Professional image editing tools, transformations and filters – from Pencil to Gaussian blur
• Advanced image-split algorithms - from Table to Book Smart
• Direct import of most image formats, including PDF

Features

• Convert obsolete format fonts to Adobe Type 1 or TrueType format
• Add your signature to a font
• Make a font of your (or your significant other's, or your client's) handwriting
• Put any line drawing you can scan into a font
• Convert old print lettering or letterhead into modern electronic format
• Put your company logo into a font
• Create clipart fonts

Benefits

Import formats: TIFF, BMP, EPS, VFB* (a lot more image formats with version 4 for Macintosh)

Export Formats: VFB*, EPS*, PC Type 1*, PC TrueType*, TIFF, outlines exported to FontLab or TypeTool program on the Macintosh.

Tools: Bitmap editor(select, marquee, freehand, magic wand, scroll, zoom, pen, brush, eraser, fill, line, polygon, rectangle, ellipse, symbol select, scale). Font editor* (Select, erase, draw, ruler). AutoTrace (template, split). Undo/redo, Scan

Filters: Character separation, Fill, Noise reduction, Blur**, Sharpen**, Colorize**, Resize**, Rotate**, Enhance**, custom filters**

Windows: Font Chart* (with cells captioned by name, decimal, hex, or ANSI character), Glyph Edit* (with bitmap, guide, grid, node, vector, and fill layers), Bitmap edit, Context sensitive popup menus* and property windows

Encoding*: Adobe Standard, ISO Latin 1, Macintosh, Adobe Cyrillic, Macintosh Cyrillic, Symbol, Windows ANSI, Custom

(1) * Windows version only
(2) ** Macintosh version only

System Req.

Hardware requirements:
64MB RAM, SVGA monitor, Mouse

Software requirements:

• For Windows version: Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP).
• For Mac version: Mac OS 9.2+ with CarbonLib 1.6+ or Mac OS X (10.3 or higher recommended)