[XeTeX] Using Persian tfm and Type1 fonts

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:51:42PM +1000, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
> Thanks Mr. Kew and Ms. Fischer
> 
> I do not know much about fonts.
> 
> Is there any way that you can convert those fonts to True Type fonts and then
> use them? and if the answer is yest, would the produced True Type font be as
> perfect as the original one?

You don't need to convert them to TrueType fonts, you need OpenType
fonts and it can be CCF-flavoured OpenType fonts (AKA .otf) which 
uses Type1 outlines and thus should be the same as the original fonts.
I'd use FontForge for this.

Regards,
 Khaled

> 
> Thanks
> 
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-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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