success story: using fontforge to convert Mac fonts

[e-ipi]

I decided that the font situation in my Linux setup needed attention. The free bitmapped Japanese fonts I use are sometimes hard to read. I don't know why I put this off so long. It was quite easy. I mounted my Mac partition, pointed fontforge at [mac-partition]/System/Library/Fonts/ and converted a few fonts, then put them in /usr/share/fonts/TTF. II finally converted some of the Mac fonts for use in Linux. I used fontforge, which makes it quite easy. was a bit pessimistic about it working correctly with non-Latin fonts, but everything looks great so far.

[rukh]

Cool! What did you do exactly to get this working? Is there a option to convert in fontforge or do you need to do something by hand to convert the font?
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[e-ipi]

Yes, fontforge will convert your fonts. I opened Osaka.dfont on my mac partition with fontforge and then under the "File" menu I chose "Output font" (it might say something different in English). All the .dfont conversions worked, but the HiraginoPro open type fonts did not convert on my first attempt, and neither did one of the Chinese ttf fonts. I'll have to try again later.

[pindar]

Is there a reason why you used fontforge and not a simple tool like fondu?

[e-ipi]

I had forgotten how to use fondu, and since there is no man page, I googled around to see how. While doing that I read George William's explanation as to why he wrote fondu:

"Fondu and ufond were initial experiments so I could make pfaedit (now called fontforge) edit fonts from the mac."

When I saw that, I thought "OK, I'll try fontforge." Fontforge is a gtk app (and, ironically, has horrible looking fonts in the menus like the rest of my gtk apps). At any rate, some might prefer a point-n-click approach.

[dundas]

seems to me that fontforge doesn't support .tte?
that's the prob I had..........I can't find any free tool to import .tte in linux or windows.....any clues?
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