Re: Converting PostScript Font Resource to TTF

On Fr, 18.08.2006, 21:52, George Williams sagte:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 06:53, Ulrich Stärk wrote:
>> Is there a trick to extract those whith fontforge (or another tool you
>> might know)? I naivly tried opening the file with fontforge
> I was able to open the bit you sent and have it work.
>> (which by the
>> way complains about not beeing compiled with --with-multilayer although
>> I
>> did)
> I have a version which I know is configured with --with-multilayer and
> it does read the font and does not complain.
>
> I suspect you have not successfully configured it.
> $ ./configure --with-multilayer
> $ make clean
> $ make

That's exactly what I did - on a Windows XP machine in a cygwin
environment however. The configure script wasn't complaining about
anything so I assumed everything went well.

>
>
> However this is a bitmap PostScript font. You can't really convert it to
> TTF. You could create a bitmap only sfnt from it. The pixelsize is too
> small for autotrace to do a good job.
>
>

Thanks for the hint.

Uli



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