Re: Skyfonts

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Knut Petersen wrote
> Am 07.11.2016 um 06:44 schrieb Andrew Bernard:
> 
>> The question is, since they are not in the standard sort of location, is
>> lilypond able to make use of such fonts at all? So far, I have been
>> unable to persuade it to do so.
> 
> You should be able to produce a pdf containing either a subset or a full
> copy of the font you want to use in lilypond.
> A great number of tools allows to extract font objects from pdfs
> (ghostscript, mutool, fontforge, ...). Lilypond should
> be able to use the extracted fonts. Be aware of the fact that all this
> might be illegal in your country .
> 
> cu,
>   Knut
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Hello Andrew,

It is possible to extract fonts from a PDF file, it's pretty common these
days but you'd have a few options. This link discusses them. 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3488042/how-can-i-extract-embedded-fonts-from-a-pdf-as-valid-font-files

I personally find it easiest to simply run FontForge.


    Use the "Open Font" dialogbox used when opening files.
    Then select "Extract from PDF" in the filter section of dialog.
    Select the PDF file with the font to be extracted.
    A "Pick a font" dialogbox opens -- select here which font to open.

Pretty easy :) Hope this helps!

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