[help] Anyone familiar with "FreeType"?

FreeType (http://www.freetype.org/) is a free, high-quality, and portable font engine, I've download it but I don't know where how to start, if anyone is familiar with FreeType, please give me some basic tutorial to help me start with it.

All I'm trying to do with FreeType is that I'm trying to convert a Mac TrueType Font (.ttf) to a Windows TrueType Font (.ttf).

I've already tried FontForge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/) to do the conversion, but the font doesn't look like it was on a Mac.

Then I found the FreeType tool, it is claimed to have better (1:1 ?) abilities converting Mac TrueType bitmaps to a Windows TrueType Font. But the tool itself gaved me no clue how to start, where to begin. All I see are C++ files, .h files, some .exe and lots of documentations.

Anyway if anyone familiar with FreeType/FontForge, please help me out. It's really a beautiful font.

Sincerely,

-cherrysoul

#261556

I was under the impression that you could just take a Mac TrueType font and put it on a Windows machine... are you sure this is not the case?

#261569

No, Windows don't recognize this Mac .ttf font I've got, it's from OSX. However I can use the OpenType fonts from Mac in Windows, no conversion needed.

-cherrysoul

#261574

FreeType is a programming library used by by programmers to manipulate fonts, so it's not a program you can run out of the box.

#261604

For mac to win font conversion:

http://www.font.to/Font-tools/TransType/

http://www.asy.com/scrcf.htm

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