Suitable fonts for DrawVectorText()?

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Re: Suitable fonts for DrawVectorText()?

Post by TassyJim »

I think I have finally nailed it.

Grab a copy of "FontForge.exe"

For each font you have to change one field.

Open the font in FontForge.
In the Font Information menu,
choose OS/2
and change the" Embeddable" field from "Editable Document" to "Installable Font"

Save using File/Generate Fonts...

Install the changed font.

I have successfully done this for 3 of the Futura fonts before I decided to declare that it works.

There might be a way to make the change easier but that is well outside my skill level.
Time to see what font they used on my Whisky bottle I think.

Jim
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Re: Suitable fonts for DrawVectorText()?

Post by dige »

Hello Jim, thank you very much for your tip. I will give it a try.
Thanks also for the tip with FontForge. It seems I can use it to convert otf fonts to ttf fonts. That also helps me enormously :D

Kind regards

Dige
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