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Alphabix
Alphabix is a utility for creating bitmap fonts. It has been designed for use with BluffTitler DX9,
but also features HTML export.
A bitmap font is a font in which every character is a small picture. Other names for bitmap fonts are image fonts,
raster fonts and texture fonts. Bitmap fonts created by Alphabix are full colour, contain transparency info, are
unicode and can be up to 1024 pixels high per character.
Alphabix can convert any True Type, Open Type and Type 1 font installed on your system. You can set the character
range (which characters you would like to convert), the character set, the size, colour, border size and border colour.
| Software Information |
System Requirements |
| Version: |
1.0.4 |
- Windows XP/Vista (32 or 64 bit)
- DirectX version June 2007 or later
- Pentium III 800 MHz or better
- 256 MB RAM
- BluffTitler DX9 version 7.5 or higher
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| License: | Free to try, $28.95 to buy |
| File Size: |
513 KB |
| Screenshot : | View Screenshot |
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Key Features and Functions of Alphabix:
- Convert vector fonts into bitmap fonts
Alphabix can convert any True Type, Open Type and Type 1 font installed on your system. You can set the character
range (which characters you would like to convert), the character set, the size, colour, border size and border colour.
- Replace characters by pictures
Any character can be replaced by any PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF or JPG picture. Alpha channels are correctly imported.
- Bitmap fonts are full colour
Vector fonts like True Type (TTF) do not contain any colour information. Bitmap fonts are full colour.
- Bitmap fonts are highly detailed
Complex shapes are difficult to vectorize and expensive to render. Bitmap fonts can handle small details
much more efficiently.
- Bitmap fonts are fast
BluffTitler renders every character of a bitmap font as a single texturemapped rectangle (2 triangles).
A vector font, depending on the shape of the character, is built out of hundreds of triangles.
- Bitmap fonts are easy to design
If you know how to draw a picture in a paint application you can design your own bitmap font. This
is a screenshot of Adobe Photoshop Elements.
- Bitmap fonts are always antialiased
Even on older graphics cards that do not feature good quality hardware antialiasing, bitmap fonts are
antialiased because the texture file created by Alphabix is perfectly antialiased.
- Bitmap fonts do not scale
A disadvantage of bitmap fonts is that they do not scale. The edge of a vector font stays razor sharp,
no matter how close you zoom in. However, when zooming in on a bitmap font, the individual pixels become visible.
- Export to BluffTitler
Bitmap fonts created by Alphabix can be used by the text and scroller layers of BluffTitler.
- Export as HTML
Alphabix has been designed for use in BluffTitler, but also offers HTML export. A demo can be found here.
- Export as letter cubes cut-outs
Alphabix can create cut-outs for letter cubes. Just enter the names you would like to write and the cut-outs
are generated fully automatically. The algorithm has been optimized to write as many names with as little cubes.
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