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which software to create font of 9 icons?
I've no previous experience of creating a font file.
However, I need to create a font file for 9 icons.
What would be the most cost effective way if I wanted to do it myself?
Is there a cheap software where I can specify letter spacing/kerning
to set a distance between the icons? (Perferably Mac OSX software)
Icons are drawn ready in Adobe Illustrator.
Many thanks
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18 Jul 2007 — 3:48am
You can try FontForge: it is free and very powerful. I know very few about Mac, but, AFAIK, it works well under Mac OS X (you must have the X11 server installed in order to run FontForge).
18 Jul 2007 — 5:07am
Fontforge works very well indeed with X11 on OS X and it can import .svg files. I however needed some knowledge of Unix to have it run (so that paths are properly exported).
18 Jul 2007 — 7:09am
I've got fontforge running, but cannot import anything really. 've tried saving the symbols as SVGs but when I try to import, fontforge says: "I'm sorry thhis file is too complex for me to understand (or is erroneus)".
Are there tutorials or something?
18 Jul 2007 — 7:24am
With just 9 icons, I guess you can import them individually. Save each one in a .svg file. Then in Fontforge, you select the slot where you want to put the icon, open it (say double click) and then in File > Import you select "SVG" instead of "Image" and then click the file you want to import.
[edit] On the fontforge site there is a pdf tutorial (second bullet).
18 Jul 2007 — 7:47am
You can also try saving your images as EPS rather than SVG. But of course I don't know what your images look like: it might be possible that they are indeed more complex than any font editing software can understand.
If nothing else helps, you can subscribe to the fontforge-users mailing list and ask about your problem there.