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Re:The End of Type 1 by schrijver on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:41PM (#34884104)
You should be able to convert them to OTF files with Fontforge. OTF supports both Postscript outlines (cubic bézier) and TrueType outlines (quadratic bézier). That should be lossless for the curves, however does someone know if it’s the case for the kerning data as well?
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Re:The End of Type 1 by elmimmo on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:09PM (#34884515)
You are but, as of today, reliably, only via the GUI, and therefore, one by one, not in batches via scripting due to a bug[1]. That is the case at least for Type 1 Mac fonts.

[1]: https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4668

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