Any good font creator programs?

[Rob Mulgrew]

Anyone know any good programs for creating fonts where you can import an .svg or .png and export it as a .ttf? I'd like to figure out how to get this in a font as a dingbat/wingding so I can have designer carve it centerline at whatever the depth should be instead of tracing the whole image and assigning a bit at a steady depth.

[FWMiller]

Search the forum for scanfont.

[aokweld101]

I've been doing the carvewright for almost three years and don't know how to send a pgn. will this work

[Rob Mulgrew]

Search the forum for scanfont.

I totally forgot I started the thread on this close to 2 years ago. Thanks for reminding me. The scanfont program and typetool are now $50 each. I'm thinking there would be freeware of something similar to these. I'm not interested in creating complete custom alphabets just importing some vectors and exporting as ttf fonts. Something very easy and basic.

[Rob Mulgrew]

I've been doing the carvewright for almost three years and don't know how to send a pgn. will this work

I thank you but I am using 1.187 and cannot open the file.

[aokweld101]

I think this is 1.87

[FWMiller]

I totally forgot I started the thread on this close to 2 years ago. Thanks for reminding me. The scanfont program and typetool are now $50 each. I'm thinking there would be freeware of something similar to these. I'm not interested in creating complete custom alphabets just importing some vectors and exporting as ttf fonts. Something very easy and basic.

I've been using the free evaluation versions of these which work fine if you only need to create a single character.

[bergerud]

Here is the result of a DXF import. Something to play with if you do not get the font method working. (The vector groups in 3.0 is another way.)

[Rob Mulgrew]

That one opened. Thanks for the pattern but I'm really hoping to find a way to get it into a nice centerline carve and it would be even nicer if I can find a way to get it to carve at all different depths determined by the thickness of the lines unless of course it would look better carved at one depth.

[Rob Mulgrew]

Here is the result of a DXF import. Something to play with if you do not get the font method working. (The vector groups in 3.0 is another way.)

Hey that actually looks really nice just the way it is. I'm still going to try and figure out the font method but it looks like that is the way to go on this one. Thank you