How do I convert a .fon font to a .ttf font ?
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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/n
http://www.shareup.com/Fon
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/prod
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/Fo
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/Fo
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...)
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.
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.
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by: lherrouPosted on 2005-11-20 at 08:03:41ID: 15329511
Weikelbob,
This is not as simple a task as it sounds. A .fon file is a bitmapped font - it's essentially a little more than specific directions for the layout of the pixels of the letters at a specific size. A TrueType font is to a bitmapped font as vector graphics are to a gif file - it includes the outline and points of the font, information on how to make the font display correctly at different sizes, etc. Just as you can't easily convert a gif into a scalable vector image, you can't easily convert a bitmapped font into a TrueType font. I know of no tool which will allow you to make this conversion directly - you could output the .FON characters as images, and then use font creation tools to re-create the font as a TTF font. This would not be a project for a beginner.
Perhaps there's a different approach you can take? What is the font and what is the intended use? Why do you need it as a TTF font? I'd be happy to try to find you an alternative route to your goal, if you can eleborate a little.
Cheers,
LHerrou