[FM Discuss] font gurus?

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 13:04, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> hey Ed, thanks...seems i sorted it. i asked for individual eps (1 for
> each letter) and it worked :)

That's what I thought you did the first time. I couldn't imagine a
font program figuring out that each piece of an EPS was meant to be a
glyph. Glad you got it.

> 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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