On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 17:05 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > I recently purchased a font family that contains 22 fonts. > Each font though is marked as its own font family with regular style. > For example - > > Wastrel - style regular > Wastrel Bold - style regular > Wastrel Light - style regular > Wastrel Oblique - style regular > Wastrel Bold Oblique - style regular > Wastrel Light Oblique - style regular > > I want a command line tool or script or something to modify these so > that Wastrel Bold will be family Wastrel style Bold etc. > > I could then reduce the 22 fonts in the font menu down to four (Wastel, > Wastrel Condensed, Wastrel Expanded, Wastrel Outline) - and using the > "bold" button in AbiWord etc. will work properly, using "Italic" will > use the real oblique instead of fontconfig generate fake italic, etc. > > Based upon running strings on the Type1 (.pfb) version of the font, I'm > pretty sure I can change those appropriately - but I don't have a clue > on how to change the family name and style on the TrueType version of > the font. Any help would be appreciated. > > This font, btw, is a nice substitute for Comic Sans MS - which has some > display issues in Linux (because of the Apple patents?) - but it would > be nice if it wasn't 22 different families - when really only four are > needed ... > > Thanks for suggestions - I've wasted half a day googling. FontForge > looks like it might do it, but there has got to be a simpler way. > I don't have many useful suggestions, and it looks like FontForge may be your best bet. I came across this page while googling though http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/editors.html Maybe one of those programs might point you in the right direction HTH Micheal
