<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It should be quite trivial to do the conversion with the open source package FontForge. Note that converting Type1 fonts to otf is a lossless conversion, as OpenType is a superset of Type1 and TrueType. Type1 and TrueType store the font paths differently as Type1 uses Bézier curves, wheras TrueType uses quadratic B-splines.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">See:<br><ul><li><a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/type/opentype/opentype-faq.html">http://www.adobe.com/products/type/opentype/opentype-faq.html</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Regards,</p><p>Dov<br></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:04 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:esr+linux-il@g.jct.ac.il" target="_blank">esr+linux-il@g.jct.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">2017-06-22 11:53 GMT+03:00 Nadav Har'El <<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>>:<br>
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2017, E.S. Rosenberg wrote about "Re: [LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected":<br>
>> For those of you who are interested:<br>
>> As of 5.3 LO no longer supports Type1 fonts which is how the<br>
>> culmus-fancy font set ships.<br>
>> The best solution is to convert them to OpenType or TrueType fonts.<br>
><br>
> Wow...<br>
> So I'm lucky that Fedora 25 which I use still uses LibreOffice 5.2.<br>
> Someone (TM) really needs to fix this issue, because I'm not aware of<br>
> any alternative quality Hebrew fonts on Linux...<br>
</span>It's not as bad as it sounds, only some of the fonts are only packaged<br>
as Type1 (culmus-fancy is Type1 only) the rest either ships as<br>
OpenType or TrueType.<br>
There are also quite a few other Hebrew fonts out there part of the<br>
different distros.<br>
<span class="">><br>
> What does it take to "convert" a Type 1 font into OpenType or TrueType?<br>
> Is it just a trivial format conversion issue, or something more<br>
> involved? Is something lost in this conversion - precision, ability to<br>
> edit, or anything else?<br>
</span>It seems to be a trivial conversion, I did it using the Adobe Font Dev<br>
Kit but it should also be possible using fontmagic and other OSS<br>
tools.<br>
The fonts seem to work fine and look the same as they used to.<br>
The conversion tool did give me some errors/warnings so I don't know<br>
100% if they are OK.<br>
<span class="">><br>
> On <a href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104701" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.<wbr>documentfoundation.org/show_<wbr>bug.cgi?id=104701</a><br>
> someone states (I have no idea if this statement is correct):<br>
> " ... PS Type 1 font conversion is trivial, and most Adobe PS Type 1<br>
> was converted years ago and is distributed as TTF/OTF already."<br>
><br>
><br>
> Maxim, are you still on this list? It's been ages since I've been here<br>
> myself.<br>
</span>If it's useful I'll upload the converted files somewhere...<br>
Regards,<br>
Eliyahu - אליהו<br>
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