George Williams (programmer)
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George Williams (also known as, George Walton Williams) (b. 1959 in Durham, NC) is a renowned computer programmer and font developer.
He is famous for his font editor, converter and creator software FontForge, which was previously called PfaEdit. Many notable fonts were edited and developed with this versatile cross-platform software. He is also a type designer (font developer) of various fonts since 1987, some of them being Caslon Roman Unicode font, Monospace font family, &c. He has also participated in the development of FreeType font rendering engine.[1]
He released the PfaEdit in November, 2000 which was renamed into FontForge in March, 2004. He released the Caslon Roman Unicode font in 1997(?). He has also developed much more software and fonts.
He studied Maths and Computer Science at University at California Institute of Technology, where he was a member of Dabney House from 1977–81. He currently lives in Santa Barbara, CA.
He worked few years at JPL until the Challenger disaster. He also worked at Green Hills Software writing compilers and debuggers. In 1994 he became one of the original employees of a start-up called "NaviSoft" and wrote NaviPress, later to become AOLPress when AOL bought NaviSoft, until his retirement in 1999.
He has created software(s) for doing elementary mapping and for analyzing lemur (and other animals') ranging data for Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, as he is interested in the Lemur catta and Hapalemur simus lemur.
His great-great-grandfather was George Walton Williams of Charleston, one of the few Southern millionaires after the US Civil War.[2]
[edit] See also
- List of type designers (font developers)
- List of programmers
[edit] References
- ^ List of known bugs of FreeType2 (2001), MIT. One of the reporters was George Williams.
- ^ "George Walton Williams, The Life of a Southern Merchant and Banker 1820–1903", E. Merton Coulter, Hibriten Press, 1976.
[edit] External links
- George Williams.
- FontForge.
- Font Creation With FontForge, TUGboat, Volume 24 (2003), nº 3, by George Williams. PDF.
- Making Outline fonts From Bitmap Images, TUGboat, Volume 22 (2001), nº 4, by Karl Berry, using George Williams' PfaEdit as reference (#25).
- Changes Between 2.1.10 and 2.1.9 in FreeType. George Williams participated as developer.
