Free fonts for kids software for linux

FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones.
Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats.
FontForges user interface has been localized for: (English), Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish.
With the appropriate libraries, FontForge can import png, tiff, and gif images to act as character backgrounds for tracing purposes (FontForge can import bmp and xbm formats without external libraries).
With libxml2 FontForge can read SVG fonts. With the freetype library FontForge will do a better job making bitmap characters for you.
None is required for the proper compilation/execution of FontForge, if the libraries are not present they will not be used.
Enhancements:
- Support has been added for version 2 of the Spline Font DB format.

Font::Scripts::AP is a Perl module for memory representation of a TTFBuilder Attachment Point database (APDB).

SYNOPSIS

use Font::Scripts::AP;
$ap = Font::Scripts::AP->read_font($ttf_file, $ap_file, %opts);
$ap->make_classes();

INSTANCE VARIABLES

cmap

Reference to the Microsoft cmap within the font.

font

Reference to a font structure. read_font will cause at least the post, cmap, loca, and name tables to be read in.

glyphs

An array of references to glyph data structures, indexed by glyphID. Stucture elements are:

uni

Unicode scalar value, if any, as specified in the APDB. (decimal integer)

gnum

Actual glyph ID from font.

post

Actual Postscript name from font.

Note: The uni, gnum and post values are based on the UID, GID, and PSName fields of the APDB. If there are descrepancies between the APDB and the fonts internal tables, then for calcuating the above three values, priority is given first to UID field, then PSName field, and finally GID.

glyph

Reference to glyph structure read from font.

line

Line number in APDB where glyph is defined.

points

A hash of references to attachment point structures for this glyph, keyed by attachment point type (aka name). Each AP structure contains

name

The name (type in TTFBuilder terminology) of the attachment point

x, y

X and Y coordinates for the attachment point

line

Line number in APDB where this point is defined.

components

Present if the glyph is a composite. Is a reference to an array of component structures. Each component structure includes:

bbox

comma separated list of bounding box coordinates, i.e., x1, y1, x2, y2

uni

Unicode scalar value, if any, of the component. (decimal integer)

Note: The following instance variables contain the actual text read from the APDB. If there are descrepancies between the APDB and the font, these values may differ from corresponding values given above. Therefore these values should not be used except for diagnostic purposes.

UID

Unicode scalar value, if any, as specified in the APDB. (string of hex digits)

PSName

Postscript name, if any, as specified in the APDB

GID

Glyph id, if any, as specified in the APDB

classes

Created by "make_classes", this is a hash keyed by class name returning an array of GIDs for glyphs that are in the class. Classes are identified by extensions (part after a .) on the post name of each glyph. For each such extension, two classes are defined. The first is the class of all glyphs that have that extension (class name is the extension). The second is the class of nominal glyphs corresponding to the glyphs with that extension (class name is the extension but with the prefix no_).

lists

Created by "make_classes", this is a hash keyed by attachment point name (as modified by "make_point") returning an array of GIDs for glyphs that have the given attachment point.

vecs

If defined, this variable will be updated by "make_classes". It is a hash, keyed by attachment point name (as modified by "make_point") returning a bit vec bit array, indexed by GID, each bit set to 1 if the corresponding glyph has the given attachment point.

ligclasses

Optionally created by make_classes if ligatures are requested and they exist. The base forms class is no_code while the ligatures are held in code.

WARNINGS

If -errorfh not set, this accumulates any warning or error messages encountered.

WARNINGS

Count of number fo warnings or errors encountered.

Font Manager is a font manager for GNOME. Font Manager cannot do any font management tasks yet, but is already useful for picking fonts.
Main features:
- List installed fonts
- Add previews for installed fonts
- Open font properties from context menu
- Set system fonts from the font manager
- Make the font manager installable

Screensavers for Xandros 4.x contains twelve different screensavers you can try out for Xandros. They are static builds, so they should work out of the box. You may need OpenAL for the Really Slick Screensavers, and the sound is a bit scratchy, since I compiled the thing with Arts so the sounds would work all the time.
You dont have to have OpenAL installed though, you just wont get sound. Kanjisaver needs the Chineese fonts installed in order to function properly, so if you deselected those, pop in your Xandros cd and install them before installing it.
Other than that, the rest *should* work out of the box just fine. There are additional builds available, but this only gives me 12 spots. Simply right-click save the link for the package you want. Then Double click to install.
Additional info at http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=26918
P.S. Thanks to all the authors of these fine screensavers.
Main features:
- Flower Attack
- Kanjisaver
- KBiof
- KCad
- KCometen3
- KFieldlines
- KFlocks
- Kogs
- SmoothSlideSaver
- Really Slick Screensavers
- Kannasaver
- Tropical TuxSaver

Free Unicode TrueType fonts for Baltic, Central European, South European and other languages, including Azeri, Maori, Welsh and Esperanto.

VSOFont is a small library used to draw very simple and fast user definable 2D vector fonts. At some point in time, when working with handheld devices, the font functions GLUT offered proved to be too massive. so i decided to write a very simple 3D vector text system using OpenGL myself. The application is coded in ANSI C.
Enhancements:
- added vsofont_read_font_from_memory().
- changed vsofont_read_font() to vsofont_read_font_from_file().
- example shows now how to draw a bolded string.
- VSOFONT header file should now work in C++ projects.
- small optimizations here and there.

Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access.

The configuration module consists of the FcConfig datatype, libexpat and FcConfigParse which walks over an XML tree and ammends a configuration with data found within.

From an external perspective, configuration of the library consists of generating a valid XML tree and feeding that to FcConfigParse.

The only other mechanism provided to applications for changing the running configuration is to add fonts and directories to the list of application-provided font files.

The intent is to make font configurations relatively static, and shared by as many applications as possible. It is hoped that this will lead to more stable font selection when passing names from one application to another.

XML was chosen as a configuration file format because it provides a format which is easy for external agents to edit while retaining the correct structure and syntax.

Font configuration is separate from font matching; applications needing to do their own matching can access the available fonts from the library and perform private matching.

The intent is to permit applications to pick and choose appropriate functionality from the library instead of forcing them to choose between this library and a private configuration mechanism.

The hope is that this will ensure that configuration of fonts for all applications can be centralized in one place. Centralizing font configuration will simplify and regularize font installation and customization.