Fonts used in subtitles

[RBCC]

I have a MacGyver Font that is in gif format , is there a piece of freeware that can directly convert gif,jpg, ect to font so I can put them in the ttf file?
so I can use them in Aegisub, John

[johns0]

Try subtitle edit.

[Cornucopia]

Apps like that may do varying levels of OCR (optical character recognition) that converts to plain text, but none do vectorizing/tracing & streamlining & glyph transformation, which is what is necessary to do what the OP wants. A combination of Illustrator/Freehand/Streamline & Fontographer will do it, but only if you have lots of skill & patience.

Scott

[JVRaines]

It's not as hard as all that. You can load the GIFs directly into the free FontForge, convert them to vector format with an autotrace module, tweak, and generate your font file.

[Cornucopia]

Ok, so that changes it from a 2 or 3 app workflow to a 1app+ plugin workflow, but the steps are the same, and the "tweak" portion is the part which trips up those who aren't skilled in fonts. Without painstaking tweaking, you end up with a very uneven set of glyph shapes, weights and spacing. It is as hard as all that (I say, having done it a few dozen times before, myself).

It is nice to see there are font generation alternatives, though.

Scott

[RBCC]

I get an error message when I do that. Something like its a invalid font file. How do you load a gif in fontforge? Does it have to be grayscale? John