From: Pontus Lidman (pontus_at_lysator.liu.se)
Date: 2004-02-18 18:11:41
I'd like to chime in with a comment if I may,
> >> Anyone have any idea as to what software would actually do
> >> something like this?
> > pfaedit and maybe an automatic bitmap to vector tracer.
>
> Doesn't PfaEdit do the tracing? I tried a few commercial Windows
> programs lately for drawing True Type-fonts, but apart from that
> they cost money, it is close to impossible for an amateur to get
> any useful font out of it, both when you draw on freehand and when
> you import a bitmap graphic.
PfaEdit uses a text format as its native storage, and I imagine it
wouldn't be too hard to write a program that looks at the C64 bitmap
font and emits text lines of line and move commands in this
format. Then PfaEdit can export TrueType or Type1 for you.
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