Re: [Fontforge-users] convert BDF to TTF

[George W. <gw...@si...>]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 03:03, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> i'm trying to convert a BDF font to TTF and i'm not having any success. is 
> there a how-to for this?
It depends on what you want to do, your question isn't specific enough.

Do you want a bitmap only ttf file? (only supported by Apple & Linux)
	Open the BDF file
	File->Generate Fonts
		Select "No Outline Font" (should already be selected)
		Select either "sbits only (dfont)" or "OpenType Bitmap"
	  [Save]

Do you want to convert a bitmap font into outlines? If so the quality
will be extremely poor unless you have a very large pointsize
	Create a New font
	File->Import
		Format "BDF"
		[*] As Background
	  [Import]
	Edit->Select All
	Element->AutoTrace
	File->Generate Fonts
You will need to download a copy of either autotrace or potrace to do
this.
I don't really recommend this, it doesn't work at all well on most
inputs.