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I am able to import the bmp just fine, but on closer examination, the edges have become distorted and the curves are not smooth. What was once a straight line is now riddled with contour points. Any suggestions? E-mail me if anyone else has had/fixed this. rbasart@richandjan.com

Please take a look at this thread:

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I guess I wasn't very clear in my first post. I had already drawn the letters for my font in CorelDraw9, each with as few nodes/points as possible. A straight line for instance has only 2 points. After exporting to a .bmp and then importing the .bmp into Font Creator, that straight line is now jagged with 20-30 points.

Bitmaps are jagged by nature. This has come up before, and requests have been made for import of vector formats like EPS or WFM. There is no TTF export filter in Corel Draw 9, but if you have an earlier version you can export to a TTF, then open that font in Font Creator for final editing.

I was able to get a filter for Corel9 to export the letters in to a TTF. They look wonderful in FC now. Now I am battling with the size, spacing and kerning of the letters. Now that I have each of the letters in a font, I believe all my problems are in my lack of knowledge of the program.

I also use Corel Draw 9, the TTF filter might be useful to me. Where did you get it?

Within a couple of weeks a new version will be released. It will include improvements related to the Import Image feature.

My bad, I am using Corel10, sorry about the confusion. All I did was do the standard updates to it from Corels web site. And...Looking forward to the new version. I am just starting to get this one figured out.