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FontLab import kerning from Fontographer

kristin

I’ve done a ton of individual kerning in Fontographer on a couple of fonts. We now have FontLab. Can anyone tell me a method of importing those kerning combinations from Fontographer into FontLab?

If this isn’t the right forum for this type of question, can someone point me to the right place to find this info?

Thanks,

Kristin

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paul d hunt

the easiest thing may be to get FogLamp, which converts Fontographer files to FontLab files.

Mark Simonson

You can export the kerning and metrics from Fontographer as an AFM file. The AFM file can be imported into FontLab when you are in the Metrics window with kerning enabled. FontLab will ask if you want to do with the imported metrics, whether they are compatible, etc.

Alternatively, you can export the font from Fontographer as a Type 1 PostScript font. When you import the suitcase file, the kerning and other metrics will come along with everything else.

Yet another alternative is FontLab’s new FogLamp utility which converts Fontographer files directly to FontLab VFB files, as Paul suggests.

Lot’s of ways to go.

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