OK now I’m confused.
Don't worry, so am I.
For reason best known unto themselves most font creation programs will allow you to import vector graphics to use as
glyphs: and as they are vectors rather than bit-mapped images, it is possible to modify them after they have been imported.
Birdfont (free), for instance, allows one to import SVG images . . . BUT ALL the menu items are non-functional in Mac OS 13.
https://birdfont.org/download.php
Fontlab allows one to import EPS images (which, considering EPS images have almost gone the way of the dinosaurs, is amazing).
It, also, allows one to import greyscale PNG images and then you can do nothing further with them.
https://www.fontlab.com/font-editor/fontlab/
FontForge (free and Open Source) allows for both EPS and SVG, but is as clunky as a clunky thing.
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Now, to LiveCode . . .
1. It would be fantastic if LiveCode could convert imported images into vector graphics inwith LC itself.
2. It would be fantastic if LiveCode could export those vector graphics as, either, EPS and/or SVG images.
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My Use-Case is as follows:
The Fifth SDLC of my Devawriter Pro is set to involve implementation of Bengali text digitisation with,
as per Devanagari and Grantha scripts, a full panoply of conjunct consonants ( about 1200)
to be stored in one of the Personal Private Use areas of the Unicode specification.
Now, once upon a time (well, about 12 years ago) I spent nigh-on 4 months hand crafting about 5000 of
these conjunct consonants for Devanagari script . . . and a "right fuff-fuff" is was too.
I did that with my licensed copy of Fontographer, followed by tweaks and twiddles in FontForge.
As Fontographer is a 32-bit app I
could mess around carting files back and forth from one of my
older Macintosh computers and my current 'weapon of choice', my 2018 Mac Mini running MacOS 13.
Now, being basically an idle slob, I was wondering if I could expedite matters by leveraging freely available
renderings of Bengali conjunct consonants.
But to do that bitmap images of them have to be converted into either EPS or SVG format . . . and the thought
of having to import each one into Inkscape, Trace it, then export in a vector format (and Inkscape does not lend
itself to batch processing of this type), makes me want to crawl back under the blankets, suck my thumb
and think happy thoughts.
) to export images from LiveCode in EPS format . . .