Re: Using a custom bitmap as a character?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I am slowly creating a font to be used for tablature ... so far I
> have bitmaps of a couple of characters.  I'd like to try them out
> and get an idea how they look.  Is there any way I can replace a
> character with a small scaled bitmap?

Not directly.  You would have to convert the bitmap to an EPS file,
say.  You might try potrace to do such a conversion.

  https://potrace.sourceforge.net/

The FontForge font editor comes with native support for potrace, BTW.


    Werner