Nerdbloke

I stumbled across a font I wanted to use in a personal project. But it was in a PDF file. I found that this guy knew the steps to extract them and install the font on your windows box.

To summarize:

1. Use linux (at the moment Ubuntu 7.10)
2. Install fontforge (~$ sudo apt-get install fontforge)
3. Convert your PDF to PostScript via ~$ pdftops pdffilename.pdf
   • this step creates files named pdffilename.ps
4. Open the PostScript file in your favourite editor – ~$ gedit pdffilename.ps
5. Find the following and extract everything between the lines with BeginResource and EndResource (excluding the Being/EndResource lines):
   %%BeginResource: font CIKHFG+Schoensperger-Modified
%!FontType1-1.0: CIKHFG+Schoensperger-Modified
...
%%EndResourceSave the extracted portions as with a pfa extension (there may be more than one section, so 1.pfa, 2.pfa … n.pfa)
6. Open the pfa files in fontforge until you find the desired font ~$ fontforge 1.pfa
7. Reencode the font as Latin1 (Encoding – Reencode – Latin1)
8. Compact the font (Encoding – Compact).
9. Adjust the garbled font name (Element – Font Info – Names).
10. Generate a TrueType or PostScript Type1 font to your liking (File – Generate Fonts).