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Re: Using fontforge to convert TrueType or OpenType fonts to PostScript Type 1

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* 2021-07-26 16:15:01-0500, Tom Browder wrote:

> Can anyone show how to script the above conversion?

It's not good writing style to refer to a subject or heading. A reader
may need to skip back to it if he didn't expect it to be referred later.
Message or document content should be clear even without subject or
heading.

> I have had success creating Type 1 .pfa files using the widget
> interface, but would prefer scripting.

I hope I can help with a script I made long ago for converting font
files. My script's date stamp says 2005-11-26 and I don't remember much
about Fontforge but the script itself is simple and the code explains
itself. Give it font file names as arguments.


    #!/usr/bin/fontforge

    i = 1
    while ( i < $argc )
            Open($argv[i])
            Generate($argv[i]:r + ".pfa")
            i++
    endloop

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/// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/
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Using fontforge to convert TrueType or OpenType fonts to PostScript  Type 1 Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2021-07-26 23:20 +0200
  Re: Using fontforge to convert TrueType or OpenType fonts to  PostScript Type 1 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2021-07-27 07:00 +0200
    Re: Using fontforge to convert TrueType or OpenType fonts to  PostScript Type 1 Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2021-07-27 15:40 +0200

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