FFIL fonts to TTF?

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FFIL fonts to TTF?

Hello
Is there anyway that it is possible to convert the FFIL fonts to TTF to use on PC? I have a project that needs translation onto both platforms.

Any clues?

Thanks in advance

G5 Dual 1.8 (10.4.x) + G4 400 AGP (10.2.8), Mac OS X (10.4.3), iPod with dock 15gbs Mighty Mouse

Posted on Dec 17, 2005 4:01 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,240 points

Dec 17, 2005 5:53 AM in response to Rob Snow

Have you already looked at things like CrossFont and TransType?

http://www.asy.com/scrcf.htm

http://www.fontlab.com/Font-tools/TransType/

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Answer 2

Kurt Lang

Level 9

68,690 points

Dec 17, 2005 9:07 AM in response to Rob Snow

Hi Rob,

In addition to Tom's suggestion, it depends on what those FFIL fonts are. FFIL refers to a font suitcase. If it's an older OS 9 font suitcase, then those would be Mac TrueType and can be converted as is. If those are the bitmap suitcase fonts of a Type 1 PostScript font, then they'll be useless without the matching outline printer fonts, which are indicated as an LWFN file. Those would be in the same folder as the matching bitmap fonts.

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Answer 3

Rob Snow Author

Level 3

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Dec 18, 2005 1:41 AM in response to Rob Snow

Found the solution.
There is a program called FontLab that allows this conversion.
Very easy to use.

Thanks for the input though.

Rob

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