Inverted glyph: bitmap > SVG via autotrace > glyph via fontforge

Question

I am trying to create a font/glyph by:

• taking a bitmap image
• creating an SVG with autotrace (on Linux)
• importing the outline as a glyph with pyt

Answer 1

solved this simply by using potrace instead of autotrace.

for reference, these are the steps:

convert bitmap to svg (linux command line):

potrace -s sourceimg.bmp

use svg as glyph (python):

import fontforge
font = fontforge.open('blank.sfd')
glyph = font.createMappedChar('A')
glyph.importOutlines('sourceimg.svg')
font.generate('testfont.ttf')

That's it, result below for use on a website:

css:

@font-face
{
font-family: testfont;
src: url('testfont.ttf');
}

html:

A
A