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cocos2d for iPhone supports different formats for the sprites, tiles and fonts. The following is a list of the editors supported by cocos2d:
Tiles
The popular tile editor called Tiled can be used to generate tile maps for cocos2d. With it, you can create orthogonal, isometric and hexagonal maps.
Tiled has 2 versions:
- Native (QT) version: This version is constantly being updated. It is much easier to use, and has a nicer GUI. The only missing feature, as of today, is support for hexagonal maps.
- Java version: It’s the old version, it supports hexagonal, isometric and orthogonal maps, but with an uglier GUI.

For further information regarding how to use Tiled and cocos2d, please read: Programming guide: How to use tile maps
Download: http://mapeditor.org
Sprites
Robert Payne updated the old Texture Atlas Creator. The new version is now called Zwoptex, and this is the new homepage: Zwoptex homepage
New features:
- Has more arranging options
- canvas size adjustment
- Minimum spacing for arranging
- A centralized way to load frames (similar to Flash)
Recently Robert also released the source code of the editor: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/4300

For further information regarding how to use Zwoptex in cocos2d, please read: How to use Zwoptex and CCSpriteFrameCache
The guys from GameDoctors, also created an utility called mkatlas.pl to generate a compacted texture atlas from different image files. This utility is included in the cocos2d distribution and can be found in the /tools directory.
Fonts
cocos2d has 3 ways to render fonts:
- CCLabel: Which renders fonts using both system and custom .TTF files (introduced in v0.1)
- CCLabelAtlas: Which renders fixed-width fonts from an image file (introduced in v0.5)
- CCBitmapFontAtlas: Which renders variable-width fonts from an image file (introduced in v0.8)
To create images for CCLabelAtlas and CCBitmapFontAtlas you can use the following editors:
CCBitmapFontAtlas:

CCLabelAtlas:
Recently, the guys from Indeeo created a new editor for an improved LabelAtlas, called ALLabelAtlas.
This editor supports some effects like shadow, and it also adds support for kerning.
Download: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/4357

Update: tilluigi told us about a Photoshop plugin to generate SpriteSheets: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=10578.0
If you know any other editor, please, let us know! Thanks.
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