Premium Edition

This is the only KbdEdit edition that can produce Standalone Layout Installers (Generate Layout Install Package command). It is intended for users who want to publish their custom layouts to a wide audience.

You can order the KbdEdit Premium edition from the Online purchase page.

Personal Edition

This edition is intended for users who want to create custom layouts for personal use on a single computer. These layouts can still be deployed to other computers through KbdEdit's KBE file format, however each target machine is required to run its own installation of KbdEdit Player.

Personal edition corresponds to the "Full" edition in pre-1.3.0 KbdEdit releases.

You can order the KbdEdit Personal edition from the Online purchase page.

Lite Edition

You can order the KbdEdit Lite edition from the Online purchase page.

Lite version can be used to:

• Make changes in the high-level editor: any Unicode character, ligature or an existing dead character can be assigned to any existing modifier combination of any mappable character.

• Import KBE files saved with the free Demo version, provided that they don't contain any low-level or dead char table modifications.

• Import KBE files saved from the Premium or Personal edition (including the Examples).

• Use all other features not explicitly mentioned in the below list of restrictions (like Export KBE file, Import KLC file, Register Layout DLL files, etc).

Lite version does not allow to:

• Make changes in the low-level and dead char editors. This disables advanced features like creating and modifying dead chars, editing virtual-key mappings and modifiers, using the togglable KANA modifier key etc.

• Import KBE files saved with the Demo version, if they contain low-level or dead char table modifications.

• Import KBE files saved with any pre-1.1 version (either Personal or Demo)

• Export Mac .keylayout files.

• Generate Layout Install Packages.

Player Edition

Note that Player edition is not needed for the deployment of Standalone Layout Installer packages generated by the Premium edition.

The intended usage scenario is:

• Use the Premium, Personal or Lite version to create a custom layout.
• Export the layout in KBE file format.
• Use the Player version to deploy the KBE file to any number of computers.

Player version can be used to:

• Import KBE files saved from the Premium, Personal or Lite edition (including all Examples).

• Import KLC files created by MSKLC.

• Deploy the imported layouts by Saving them.

• Deploy custom layout DLLs using the Register Layout DLL files. The DLLs can be generated by KbdEdit or a 3rd party tool, or can be "borrowed" from another Windows version.

• Print sticker maps.

Player version does not allow to:

• Make any kind of changes to layouts - the high-level, low-level and dead char editors are strictly read-only.

• Import KBE files saved with the Demo version.

• Import KBE files saved with any pre-1.1 version (either Personal or Demo)

• Export KBE files.

• Export Mac .keylayout files.

• Generate Layout Install Packages.

• Customize sticker maps.