On 12-Mar-2008, "M." <googlegroup@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> is it possible to perform a similar conversion using FontForge? If
> yes, could somebody tell the steps? I am not proficient in creating
> fonts.
>
> The most im****tant thing is that the created ttf font hat exactly the
> same height, ascender, descender, width as the original font. I will
> not scale it at all; I only want to substitute a bit-mapped font by a
> ttf font when converting a do***ent from an old system to a new system
> not sup****ting bitmap fonts. The appearance of the converted do***ent
> must correspond exactly to the original one.
The very latest standard for fonts is OpenType, and it does sup****t the
TTF
extension for fotns containing bitmaps. You may wan to read more at
micsrosoft.com/tyography. The guys at Fontlab.com also create lots of good
conversion programs for bitmap. If am no so sure they have whan you
decribe,
though. Good luck !
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Mitch Bujard
Calligrapher, Type Designer
http://www.SchoolFonts.com
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