[FM Discuss] font gurus?

[adam hyde]

hey Ed, thanks...seems i sorted it. i asked for individual eps (1 for
each letter) and it worked :)

adam

On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 20:59 -0500, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:59, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > 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...
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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