converting .fon to .ttf

I am using the GD Library of php. I hope you are familiar with it a little. It has a command "imagettftext" that dynamically makes ttf images. At this point, I'm open to a commercial tool.

Here's a couple of ideas:

http://www.typophile.com/node/10621
http://www.shareup.com/Font_Fitting_Room_Deluxe-download-31839.html

Any help is appreciated.

So, if I understand you correctly, you are trying to create or write to images with text, and you want to use a font which is only available in .FON format? Again, I don't think there's an easy answer for you. The Font Fitting Room program won't convert between font types. The program referenced in the thread from Typopile is PixFont (http://www.kgroup.ru/products.html). It may be possible to use that program, install it on a system that also has your .fon file installed, and create a pixel font in TTF format. I haven't tried that approach, but it's probably worth a shot. They have a trial version, so you can try it in caps, and if it works, pay so you can also do lower case). And if it works, you can make a number of other people looking for a converter happy as well :) However, I suspect we'd see some documentation of that use if it worked, or worked well.

What's the font you want to use, and why are you stuck on that one specifically?

If you want to go with a commercial tool, I believe BitFonter (http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/BitFonter/) will do what you want (with some work). It's $499, and is only available for the Mac. I don't know of any other tool that will accomplish your goals. You could also make an image of each letter, import them into one of several font programs, and create a new font based on the original from scratch.

Maybe this will help. The fonts are:

MODERN, ROMAN, AND SCRIPT

Those three fonts are special instances of the .FON file type, and are in fact vector fonts. Essentially, Microsoft created and supports these, and these only, as fonts for backward compatibility with some plotters. Either of the approaches discussed above MAY work, the only one I am sure would work is the "make an image of each letter..." approach. I believe also that Fontographer (http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/Fontographer/) will open and work with these three fonts (due to the vector nature of these particular one), where it won't with other .fon files.

Again, why these particular fonts? There are a lot of nice fonts out there that look similar (in fact, I believe Lucida Bright is the "replacement" for Modern, and Times New Roman for Roman...)

OK. Lucida Bright for Modern.

We can get rid of Roman.

What's the replacement for Script?

How about Connecticut? I think this font used to come with a lot of Brother printers, so if you've ever had one of those, you may already have it. Otherwise, you can get it here: http://iserv.bs.ni.schule.de/~software/tools/system/FONTS/BRCONRC0.TTF

I'll check with my client, that may be all I need.

Bob

lherrou,

Where do I get Lucida Bright, do I have to pay?

Bob,

It comes with these MS products: Access 97 SR2, Office 97 Small Business Edition SR2, Office 97 SR1a, Office Professional Edition 2003, Publisher 2000, Publisher 97, Publisher 98, TrueType Font Pack.

Lucida Sans might be a better match for the letter forms of Modern, but is less condensed in width. It comes with these products: Access 97 SR2, Creative Writer 2, Greetings 99, Home Publishing 99, Office 97 Small Business Edition SR2, Office 97 SR1a, Office Professional Edition 2003, Picture It! 2000, Picture It! 2002, Plus 95, Publisher 2000, Publisher 97, Publisher 98, TrueType Font Pack, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows XP SP2, Works 2002.