Extracting fonts

[Yuri Chornoivan]

пʼятниця, 8 жовтня 2021 р. 16:57:30 EEST Alexandre Garreau написано:
> Le vendredi 8 octobre 2021 13:43:04 CEST, vous avez écrit :
> > In this case, use FontForge (File -> Open -> Filter -> Extract from PDF)
> > to extract, edit, and convert the font.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> 
> It does, for what I wanted initially, as it indeed works
> 
> > Okular is a document viewer. Please use specialized software to
> > edit/extract data from PDF.
> 
> But I often use Okular, and I’m curious generally about features… what is 
> that feature “extract font” for, if it doesn’t provide a font most easily 
> useful to users… I tried to open the “T1” fonts, renaming them accordingly 
> to .pfb, with fontforge, but fontforge says they’re empty… I don’t 
> understand why… what is that feature for if it can’t be used?
> 

The native FF format is SFD. You should use "Generate Font" option from the File menu to generate OTF, TTF and other types of fonts.

Best regards,
Yuri