[LibreOffice 5.3/Ubuntu 17.04] Culmus Fonts not detected

[Dov Grobgeld]

Though I haven't followed the story closely, you should note that this
conversion is problematic. Converting to OpenType while retaining the Type1
outlines would have been a better idea, if OpenOffice supports it.

Here's a relevant link that describes the problem in Type1→TTF conversion:
https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2014/06/3-reasons-font-converter-type-1-truetype/

Regards,
Dov


On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Boruch Baum <boruch_baum at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 2017-06-27 12:59, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote:
> >    Thanks.
> >    Q1: can you share show did you converted the fonts (manually/script),
>
>   #+BEGIN_SRC sh
>   #!/usr/bin/fontforge -lang=ff
>   #
>   #
>   # Accepts args *.pfa or *.pfb
>
>   i=1
>   while ( i < $argc )
>     Open( $argv[i] )
>     Generate( $argv[i]:r + ".ttf")
>     i = i+1
>   endloop
>   #+END_SRC
>
>
> >    Q2: do you know how can I patch together 2 fonts, for example
> >           I like to have some subset of glyps from one font and some
> other
> >    sub-set from another and and combine them together to a new font.
> >           my use case it to have a monospaced-font with Hebrew support
> >    (which not all of them have).
>
> No idea. I'm not a font expert, and just dived into this fray
> because it was something I realized I could do.
>
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