Using SIFR FontMaker to make Skyrim UI Fonts?

Post » Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:03 pm

I just recently found this free program known as the http://www.coffeecup.com/sifr-font-maker/, which is supposed to convert TrueType fonts to a Flash/Shockwave format for use with websites and stuff...So having seen that you need to convert a font to Shockwave Flash format to use it in Skyrim's UI I've been wondering: Will this free program work by itself to create fonts for the Skyrim UI? Is there anything special in particular that has to be done with the font file that paid programs such as Flash Pro can do but this CoffeeCup program can't?
I've been wanting to see how a Euromode-style font would look in the game (even though it looks even more modern/future-ish than Skyrim's UI default Futura font, Euromode has always been one of my favorite typefaces...)

(UPDATE - Finally dropped the Euromode font into the game to see how it looks after converting it and tweaking my fontconfig.txt file accordingly. Even though the font does show up in game, it's a bit oversized and the ends of some text strings in the game are either clipped-off or wrapped into a second line (particularly the Carry Weight numbers). Guess Euromode just doesn't fit into the game, pun semi-intended :ermm: But at least I know that using fonts converted thru CoffeeCup SIFR FM can be viable!)

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