RE: [ft] WinXP Font conversion

[Bevan, David]

potrace — http://potrace.sourceforge.net (see http://potrace.sourceforge.net/samples.html) might possibly be of some use.

 

I haven’t used it, but it looks impressive.

 

Adding hinting info (if necessary at the point sizes / resolutions you’re interested in) might be an additional challenge.

 

David %^>

 

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From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of address@hidden
Sent: 14 May 2008 14:20
To: George Williams; Werner LEMBERG
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Subject: Re: [ft] WinXP Font conversion

 

Thanks

 

Sigh ... From your comments and other research ... a mechanical means of translation from "Xerox.fnt" to a "WinXP.ttf" is not possible with current technologies.

 

If you have any additional thought on this process, they would be appreciated.

 

In the mean time, I guess we pay the service bureau their fee :(

 

Thanks again

Sherman

 

-------------- Original message --------------
From: George Williams <address@hidden>

> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 05:22, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Are there bitmap-only TTFs on WinXP? Conversion to vector outline is
> > non-trivial...
> Windows does not support bitmap-only ttfs.
>