A text editor (like notepad) is useful for making quick changes and quick typing of the text and it a great tool to write out HTML code.
A word processor (like MS Word) has a plethora of options with which one can format the text and can insert special symbols, colours, line spacing and a whole lot of other things that can't do with a normal text editor.
Fontographer (sometimes abbreviated FOG), is a software application used to create digital fonts, available for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms. It was originally developed by Altsys but is now owned by Font Lab Ltd.
Mapping Text: Character mapping allows bullets, accented characters, and other curious characters that are part of the extended character set on one platform to appear correctly when text is moved to the other platform.
To solve font and character uncertainties when working across platform, many multimedia developers convert the text of their projects into bitmaps. These bitmaps may also be converted to 1- bit images that do not require great memory for storage in a project. Once converted into a bitmap, the text cannot be edited or reworked without editing the bitmap in an image- editing program or creating a new bitmap.
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