Feature request: Add support for Bitmap strikes

[offalynne]

Thank you for this lovely piece of software!

As you may well be aware, rendering of pixel-based vector fonts on Windows is a mess because of ClearType:

However there is a workaround possible by including bitmap strikes (documented here: https://int10h.org/blog/2016/01/windows-cleartype-truetype-fonts-embedded-bitmaps).

Currently the author of the blogpost/fonts in question proposes a workflow including closed source software "Fony" in addition to bitsnpicas, but it would be ideal if this could all be handled by one piece of software!

Thanks for considering.

[diaowinner]

There is a tool to do this: bdf2ttf (MIT), but there's no way to import a bitmap strike in a vector ttf/otf except FontForge, which is buggy.

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I'm going to convert Fairfax, but it had a segmentation fault. Donno why.

[offalynne]

Thank you for letting me know @diaowinner

[RebeccaRGB]

Also, version 2 can export to otb (OpenType Bitmap), which is much better supported than ttf with bitmap strikes.

[quiple]

There is a tool to do this: bdf2ttf (MIT), but there's no way to import a bitmap strike in a vector ttf/otf except FontForge, which is buggy.

I'm going to convert Fairfax, but it had a segmentation fault. Donno why.

I think it can be done with fontTools but it need to convert to ttx.