[Fontforge-users] Opening TrueType with embedded bitmap fonts

[Tobias J. <ne...@to...>]

Hello,

I'm new to FontForge and in fact this is the first X11 application 
I'm using on my Mac (MacOS X 10.4.9) so I might be missing something 
obvious.

I'm trying to edit ProFont, a Macintosh TrueType font with embedded 
bitmaps in 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 24 pt. These bitmap sizes are 
available if I open the font file using BitFonter (a bitmap font 
editor from FontLab; demo version) so I'm absolutely sure that there 
_are_ embedded bitmaps.

However, opening the same file in FontForge those bitmaps seem to be 
gone. I can't open a bitmap window ("Window -> New Bitmap Window" is 
greyed out) and when I choose "Element -> Bitmap Strikes 
Available...", the "list of current pixel bitmap sizes" is empty.
btw, on opening the font FontForge warns: "Bad font, offset out of 
bounds" a few times... maybe this is the reason for the loss of the 
bitmap fonts?

I've tried "File -> Generate Font", selected TrueType format but the 
option "In TTF/OTF" is greyed out, too. Well, I saved the file 
nonetheless (using a new name) and opened the result in BitFonter 
again... but as I expected, there were no bitmap fonts embedded.

So, am I doing something wrong, is FontForge not capable of 
preversing the embedded bitmap fonts in Mac TrueType or is something 
wrong with this special font?

Kind regards,
Tobias Jung