[FM Discuss] font gurus?

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:59, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hi
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> Any font gurus out there?

I wouldn't make that claim, but I have worked on fonts and graphics
file conversions.

> I have an EPS (sent to me) & I want to convert
> to a ttf to make a libre font which we can eventually use.

Without seeing any of the files, I can't attempt to debug your
results. Would you like to send me the file and have me test the
process?

> I am having a lot of trouble getting smooth glyphs as I am starting with
> an EPS but I cant import nicely into fontforge. If I cut up the EPS with
> scribus and export again to EPS and then import into fontforge then it
> works BUT I get all kinds of weirdness caused by overlapping paths in
> the original glyph. I have tried combining paths etc but it excludes
> areas that overlap :((
>
> I have also tried different combinations of exporting to svg and eps,
> importing into Inkscape, exporting to both EPS and SVG and then
> importing into fontforge and the results look good on small scale but if
> you zoom in there is all sorts of rubbish on the glyph
>
> i tired converting to png, pdf, ps...etc etc etc ... nada...
>
> anyone know a clean way to take a single EPS which contains all
> characters for the font, and import it cleanly into fontforge?
>
> do we ever need a manual on how to make a font...eieieieie...
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> adam
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