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    Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
    « on: September 01, 2018, 05:20:00 PM »
    Hi!

    I want to begin in font design. To today I have only one experience - EUDCEDIT (Windows included Private Character Editor).
    It creates TTE file with monospace characters max. 64 pixels wide and 64 pixels high.

    I created many characters and want to import them to font and convert it to proportional or other font convert to monospace.

    What a tool is most easy and really basic level to begin?

    Thank you for suggestions.
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    Re: Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
    « Reply #1 on: September 01, 2018, 05:27:01 PM »
    EUDCEDIT Creates Truetype characters based on a 64x64 bitmap. (The EUF files it saves contain that original bitmap data)

    You are not going to be able to create a proportional font that way.

    If you want to create a Proportional Font, you will need Font Creation Software like "Fontographer". These allow you to create and edit the character outlines directly.
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    Re: Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
    « Reply #2 on: September 01, 2018, 07:46:12 PM »
    TrueType came from Apple Computer Company.
    Beyond that, I claim ignorance on this topic.  :-[
    Here is a site that claims to explain everything.
    All About Fonts
    At least it wail help  identify the terms used in typography  :).


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      Re: Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
      « Reply #3 on: September 03, 2018, 02:22:11 PM »
      Anything other - can anybody recommend me not so hard to use tool for font creating with monospace to proportional and vice versa conversion? Tool for beginner.

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      Re: Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
      « Reply #4 on: September 03, 2018, 05:07:07 PM »
      My knowledge is very limited.  :-[
      However, I found this in a Google search:
      https://superdevresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/font-creation-tool-fontographer.jpg

      The above is his top choice of free font tools or Windows and Mac.
      He goes on to mention 13 more free tools.

      Many of these you can download. Some require an Internet connection.
      I can only suggest you  try some of these free tools and learn what they can do. In any case, there are some limits on what yu can do. The operating system has to accept the kind of font set your create.

      Most of these limit you to either True Type or Open Type methods.

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        Re: Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
        « Reply #5 on: September 05, 2018, 04:38:26 PM »
        Ok, I will look at.

        Thank you.
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        Re: Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
        « Reply #6 on: September 05, 2018, 11:10:37 PM »
        A study of fonts can be a hard work.
        This article is a good starting place for anybody the wants to learn more about fonts in general. The Personal Computer industry started to use TrueType early in PC history. Read the article carefully.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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        TrueType is an outline font standard developed by Apple and Microsoft in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the most common format for fonts on the classic Mac OS, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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          Re: Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
          « Reply #7 on: September 06, 2018, 05:15:09 AM »
          I think perhaps you meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType
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          Re: Fonts - monospace to proportional and vice versa - what to use?
          « Reply #8 on: September 06, 2018, 10:06:29 AM »
          Yes, thanks for the correction.
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType