Creating an [OT]TF font from BDF font
Mark Leisher <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:26:17 -0700
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Being lazy, I'm asking here before actually looking around. Can anyone recommend programs that create [OT]TF fonts from BDF fonts? I have Taro MURAOKA's bdf2ttf (http://www.kaoriya.net/dist/bdf2ttf-2.0.tar.bz2), but seem to recall that someone on one of the Freetype lists might have also written one; I just can't find the relevant message in my email archive. The next generation of the http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html editor, *gbdfed* (not available yet), uses the GTK+ toolkit, so it can be compiled and run on Windows as well as various species of Unix/Linux. I had a request to add the ability to create pixel fonts for use with Flash and web pages. So the plan is to let the user specify a set of strikes to be made into an OTF font. P.S. Now is a good time to get in your requests for any other features to be included in gbdfed. P.P.S. I'm also looking for volunteers to compile and test *gbdfed* on Windows. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Leisher Computing Research Lab A sneer is the weapon of the weak. New Mexico State University -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) Box 30001, MSC 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003