Want to embed a font but cannot convert from Font Suitcase or PostScript Type 1 files

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Want to embed a font but cannot convert from Font Suitcase or PostScript Type 1 files

I am using FontSquirrel font generator to try to generate the embedded font files so that I can use the @font-face in css to embed for a Website.

However, the font files I have (on Mac) are as follows and are greyed out and it is not possible to select them to convert on FontSquirrel or other converters (i.e. they don't seem to be a raw file type I can use to embed):

PostScript Type 1 Outline Font
Font Suitcase

Can I somehow convert these to .otf or .ttf or does anyone know of another embedding method.

Thanks!

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Have you tried FontForge?

The GUI is horrible, and it needs X11 to run on Mac, but it's really a nice tool to convert any type of font.

Macmade 2010-07-12 13:43:23

Thanks for the tip. I installed it, but the fonts I mentioned are not showing in the list of fonts in my font library.

KWorrall 2010-07-12 14:10:48

Further to last comment, I have got it to load the postscript type 1 file by typing in the name in the Open Font window. It opens the font but it errors when trying to save the font as true type.

KWorrall 2010-07-12 14:32:53

Final update in case this is of use to anyone else :) I revisited this again earlier and I think FontForge as suggested by Macmade, was the best possibility having scoured other forums and google results! There were errors as mentioned with FontForge, but these were individually logged and seemed to only effect some specific non-alphanumeric characters - so I managed to convert the font. I also tried downloading demo's of Fontlab studio and Fontographer and looked into one or two others, but the demo distorted characters and the license cost too much!

KWorrall 2010-07-13 10:43:18

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