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neok

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From: Cyprus

Registered: 2003-12-14

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Making a TTF font file from set of SVG images

Hi,

I produced a large set of Egyptian Hieroglyph outlines in SVG file format and I would like to produce a TTF font file using these images ( http://www.qsl.net/5b4az/pages/egypt.html ).

Is there an application or some other way to consolidate these SVG image files into a TTF font file please? Without having to import them one at a time? (there is 1070 of these!)

My thanks in advance.

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Neoklis ... Ham Radio Call: 5B4AZ

thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

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Re: Making a TTF font file from set of SVG images

I've looked into this and there is no easy way to be found.  But I did find this python script: http://tinkerhouse.net/log/python-fontf … a-godsend/.

For fonts with good selections of Egyptian hieroglyphs, you might look at NewGardiner.ttf, http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mjn/egy … diner.html, and Aegyptus.otf, http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/.

neok

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From: Cyprus

Registered: 2003-12-14

Posts: 190

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Re: Making a TTF font file from set of SVG images

I've looked into this and there is no easy way to be found.  But I did find this python script: http://tinkerhouse.net/log/python-fontf … a-godsend/.

Thank you, I will see if I can modify it for my needs.

For fonts with good selections of Egyptian hieroglyphs, you might look at NewGardiner.ttf, http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mjn/egy … diner.html, and Aegyptus.otf, http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/.

I actually produced all these hieroglyph images by extracting the glyphs from Aegypus.otf into individual pgm image files and editing in the Gimp.  I did this for the basic Gardiner set and the extra hieroglyphs suggested in the NewGardiner font. But as I put a lot of effort into retouching all these images, I would like to assemble them into a ttf font file. Just a thought.....

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Making a TTF font file from set of SVG images

You may want to check out FontForge. I know that it can import more than one image at a time if the files are named in a certain way, but I'm not sure how well it handles svg.