Re: [libreoffice-users] FontForge - converting fonts...

On 09/28/2017 03:38 AM, zed wrote:
> I've been very interested in the discussion of the problems users are
> having in LO5.4.1.2 not reading fonts. Someone mentioned that he had
> converted a font to one LO had no trouble finding, So I thought I would
> try and do the same .
>
> Downloaded FontForge with the purpose of converting Garamond Adobe fonts
> to a format which LO 5.4.1.2 can read.
>
> When I open the Garamond fonts in Font Forge they are displayed
>
> ugmm8a.pfb
> ugmmi8a.pfb
> ugmmr8a.pfb
> ugmmri8a.pfb
>
> Clicking on any one of them displays an edit window and I presume that I
> should be able to convert each to something other than .pfb but have no
> idea how to do it.
>
> I have looked at several utube videos but they do not cover conversion
> from one font type to another, concentrating upon creating new fonts.  I
> tried to access the fontforge website but after some twenty minutes of
> waiting for it to load, without success, I gave up.
>
> All advice would be welcome, as the Garamond font is used for my business
> letterhead.
>
> zed

I just tried Fontforge using Ubuntu 16.04/MATE.

In opened a TTF font and went to File > Generate Fonts.  I looked at the 
option "buttons" and choose to make it an OTF one. All I had to do after 
that was to save the font.

The process gave me some errors, but the resulting font looked the 
same.  Since I used a font that was decorative one, so it was not a 
"standard" font.  I think that was what the errors were about.

I do have the Adobe font collection in "storage", but I never used Type 
1 fonts so I could not test Fontforge with that type of font.

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