Just realised that I had not posted this on GC.

An alternative plug-in to MareroQ's excellent Font to Layers; This handles fonts that use negative bearings on the left and/or right and also includes an option to increase (or decrease) the width of character layers where more (or less) room is required. Having more space around a character can be useful when bump-mapping.

By default it outputs capitals, numerals and other keyboard characters, but there are options to add lower-case, some special characters and an option to create a user entered set of characters instead.

The filter dialog with the newer options highlighted:


And an example of the increased spacing set for the capital 'A' character. (From left to right: As per the font / 100 pixel space added to the left side / 100 pixel space added to the right side / 100 pixels added to both sides.)