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• Converters and similar programs
• Font and Font properties viewers
• Additional programs: Unicode editors, keyboard layouts etc

• True Type SDK.Some programs for the analysis and some updating TrueType fonts, mainly program ttfdump, for the font "decompiling". Archive is contained also programs flint (check of a correctness of the font file), addtable (adding of the table to the file of the font), sbit32 (adding of a raster image - "bitmap" - to the font), utilities for work with True Type Collections (libraries of fonts). Font editors among these programs are not present.
  
• http://shlimazl.nm.ru/ttfconva.zip or
  ftp://ftp.quarta.com/WinUtil/ttfconv.zipConverter in Unicode of a cyrillic TrueType font: program for adding into encoding table (cmap table) of the Russian font, formally being only latin, also Unicode values of a cyrillic. Makes it almost completely correctly, only codes of the following 6 Serbian letters are not treated:
  

  Code in CP1251	Unicode	Title
  8A	U+0409	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER LJE
  8C	U+040A	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER NJE
  83	U+0453	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GJE
  9A	U+0459	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER LJE
  9C	U+045A	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER NJE
  9F	U+045F	CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DZHE

  
  All remaining is treated correctly, in Windows-95 in the font appears script cyrillic (for want of it script western too remains), with such font correctly works Word-97.
• http://shlimazl.nm.ru/ttfconv.arj Earlier and more lame version of the Unicode font converters (will recode only 64 Russian letters, that for rigorous operation of the font in Windows-95 it is not enough), BUT containing source codes.
  
• TrueTypeMap Version 2 of the converter of the font encoding (remapping) from Pyrus for popular Russian encodings (KOI-8, DOS 866, Windows 1251 with "unicodezationquot;), is possible use of the own table of code conversion for mapping Unicode into Codepage 1252 (script western). Shareware (without restrictions of functionality), for commercial applications - $ 49.
  It seems, however, that the program not so works...
  
• http://truetex.com .  Homepage from Richard J. Kinch, in main devoted to the project TrueTeX, on which there is a description and possibility of the request of the program ttf_edit - remarkable, most universal editor of the tables of the font TrueType, not affecting glyphs. An appropriate fragment:
  The ttf_edit TrueType font table editor available for free during a limited time to persons willing to serve as beta testers. NOTE: The ttf_edit tool provides you a programming language to edit encodings and names in TrueType fonts, not the character shapes. Look over the documentation first to see if it something you can understand and use, then send a message via e-mail simply stating (1) that you would like a copy, and (2) a one-sentence summary of your application. You will receive an e-mail reply containing a uuencoded ZIP file with versions for Windows, DOS, and Linux.
  
• CrossFont 1.2 is a Windows 95/98/NT utility for moving PostScript Type1 and TrueType fonts between Macintosh and PC platforms. Character outlines, metrics and hinting are not touched. Most known PC <-> Mac the converter of firm Acute Systems, shareware (2 weeks). Behind absence around Mac's about its work (except for the fact itself) I can not tell anything.
  
• Font Creator Program. The TrueType-font editor, (shareware). It is maybe unique program with graphic inerface that allows to edit all tables in font including cmap for various platforms and languages and name for various languages. The program knows but probably don't work with TrueTypep Open/Open Type tables (GSUB, GDEF etc.). It has also crashed on many-megabyte font Bitstream Cyberbit.
  

• Windows 95 font properties extension. Homepage of the Microsoft's program for extended displaying True Type font file properties, including contents of the language subtables in the OS/2 table, number of fields of the name table and some information about a history of the font and its title from the tables in the font (additional fields in the name table according TrueType Open Specification) or from an own data base.
  
• FontMonster 3.5. One the best from font table editors old (1994) program, partly font manager. Allows to edit majority of fields in the OS/2 table and in the name table (number of fields are edited only in the registered version, however people has not disregarded this program, not supported more by the author). However it does not know how to edit the encoding table in cmap and about Unicode itself does not know.
  
• WGL Assistant 1.1. Beta version of the (shareware) manager of "fonts-sectons" (scripts) in multilanguage font, moodifying of [FontSubstitutes] section in Win.ini (Win '9x) and in the Registry (Win NT). It shows codepages supproted by the font and allows (by checkboxes-clik) to install in Windows necessary fonts-sections with correct suffixes. It's interface is multilingual and extendable in such respect.
  Here is the file with laguage resources for WGL 1.1.2.22 with revised and extended Russian part.
  
• Character Agent 1.11. The free program from Bjondi International, the advanced analog to the Unicode Character Map from Windows NT, working also under Win'9x, indicating and copying in the buffer (via Unicode) any characters from the installed font, shows Unicode ranges, names of character and other it features.

• SC Unipad. A "supplemental" áåñïëàòíàÿ utility: Unicode plain text editor for Win32 system from Sharmahd Computing GmbH (now is available ver 0.95 with time limit at 3-apr-2001). The program allows to input any (!) Unicode-text and to save it in different formats (UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16 Big/Little Endian, UCS-4 Big/Little Endian). In the last version appears support for non-zero Unicode plains (since 1 to 17).
  
• Keyboard Layout Manager  (mirror http://solair.eunet.yu/~minya/Programs/klm/index.html). The keyboard layout editor and manager for Windows'9x, NT4 è 2K (shareware, also lite version is available, also commercial extended verwsion are available - Medium, PRO è 2000). It allows to edit Normal, Shift, Ctrl, Ctrl+Alt, Shift+Ctrl+Alt key-combinations and - only PRO and 2000 versions - to input of diacritical signs with the help of "dead keys".
  

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