Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-15 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 00:35 wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 05:09:22PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I have filed issues with: + https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues + https://github.com/antlarr-suse/ttf-converter/issues Watch progress of my Raku module FontConverter (a WIP) at: +

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-14 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 05:09:22PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > > > /share/fontforge/ > WTH? /share is not and never has been a root directory in any distro I ever > used. It might be just "usr merge, to the bitter end" ;-) To me it looks like a "configure" gone wrong, where the

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-14 Thread gene heskett
On 7/14/23 16:11, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:37:50 -0500 Tom Browder wrote: Well, life is not so simple. The example script doesn't work off the mark because fontforge apparently has hard-coded paths. Well, that was silly of them. For starters, it expects

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 15:11 Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:37:50 -0500 > Tom Browder wrote: > > > Well, life is not so simple. The example script doesn't work off the > > mark because fontforge apparently has hard-coded paths. > > Well, that

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:37:50 -0500 Tom Browder wrote: > Well, life is not so simple. The example script doesn't work off the > mark because fontforge apparently has hard-coded paths. Well, that was silly of them. > For starters, > it expects > >/share/fontforge/ > > but my installation

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 07:57 Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 07:37 Tom Browder wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 18:29 Tom Browder wrote: >> >> > > Aha, I found a python (ugh) ttf-converter on Github. I hope I can kludge a > mod to do the conversion I need. > >From reading

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 07:37 Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 18:29 Tom Browder wrote: > > Aha, I found a python (ugh) ttf-converter on Github. I hope I can kludge a mod to do the conversion I need. -Tom

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 18:29 Tom Browder wrote: > Well, life is not so simple. The example script doesn't work off the mark because fontforge apparently has hard-coded paths. For starters, it expects /share/fontforge/ but my installation has /usr/share/fontforge But there is hope.

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-13 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 17:06 Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: > https://fontforge.org/docs/faq.html#faq-outline-conversion Yes, Dan, I'm using that for the .pfb conversion since they show that. And I do plan to try with .t1/.pfa after I get my .pfb converter working. I was hoping

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > I know the binary version of the PS fonts can be converted to TrueType by > FontForge. > > However, is there a way to convert from the PS ASCII version .pfa file to > the binary .pfb file? I think that fontforge can do it. Worth trying; it's packaged.

Re: Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-13 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 7/13/23 2:28 PM, Tom Browder wrote: I know the binary version of the PS fonts can be converted to TrueType by FontForge. However, is there a way to convert from the PS ASCII version .pfa file to the binary .pfb file? I have a very old font editor, that I used briefly (on a neighbor's

Convert PostScript .pfa to .pfb?

2023-07-13 Thread Tom Browder
I know the binary version of the PS fonts can be converted to TrueType by FontForge. However, is there a way to convert from the PS ASCII version .pfa file to the binary .pfb file? Thanks. -Tom