It should be quite trivial to do the conversion with the open source package FontForge. Note that converting Type1 fonts to otf is a lossless conversion, as OpenType is a superset of Type1 and TrueType. Type1 and TrueType store the font paths differently as Type1 uses Bézier curves, wheras TrueType uses quadratic B-splines.
See: - http://www.adobe.com/products/type/opentype/opentype-faq.html Regards, Dov On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:04 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: > 2017-06-22 11:53 GMT+03:00 Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il>: > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2017, E.S. Rosenberg wrote about "Re: [LibreOffice > 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected": > >> For those of you who are interested: > >> As of 5.3 LO no longer supports Type1 fonts which is how the > >> culmus-fancy font set ships. > >> The best solution is to convert them to OpenType or TrueType fonts. > > > > Wow... > > So I'm lucky that Fedora 25 which I use still uses LibreOffice 5.2. > > Someone (TM) really needs to fix this issue, because I'm not aware of > > any alternative quality Hebrew fonts on Linux... > It's not as bad as it sounds, only some of the fonts are only packaged > as Type1 (culmus-fancy is Type1 only) the rest either ships as > OpenType or TrueType. > There are also quite a few other Hebrew fonts out there part of the > different distros. > > > > What does it take to "convert" a Type 1 font into OpenType or TrueType? > > Is it just a trivial format conversion issue, or something more > > involved? Is something lost in this conversion - precision, ability to > > edit, or anything else? > It seems to be a trivial conversion, I did it using the Adobe Font Dev > Kit but it should also be possible using fontmagic and other OSS > tools. > The fonts seem to work fine and look the same as they used to. > The conversion tool did give me some errors/warnings so I don't know > 100% if they are OK. > > > > On https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104701 > > someone states (I have no idea if this statement is correct): > > " ... PS Type 1 font conversion is trivial, and most Adobe PS Type 1 > > was converted years ago and is distributed as TTF/OTF already." > > > > > > Maxim, are you still on this list? It's been ages since I've been here > > myself. > If it's useful I'll upload the converted files somewhere... > Regards, > Eliyahu - אליהו > > > > -- > > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jun 22 2017, 28 > Sivan 5777 > > n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------- > ------------ > > Phone/Telegram +972-523-790466 |Good things come to those who wait > - but > > http://nadav.harel.org.il |only the things left by those who > hurry. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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