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b0nyb0y:
I've been quite a big fan of Dina font. I've used it extensively on my Eclipse IDE for my Java development. But it just bugs me when I have to move to swing-based IDE and there's no Dina to select, since Java doesn't support FON format.  :(

Is there any chance that someone has the same issue and convert it to TTF already? And if not, what is the best way to do it? So far I've tried FontForge, but due to limited skill, my attempts so far has failed miserably...

Ralf Maximus:
From my experience, there's not enough data in a .FON file to do an automatic conversion.  The font converters I have (TransType, CrossFont) won't even try.

There's plenty of monospaced .TTF fonts out there, many similar in weight and appearance to Dina.  Could you live with one of those?

UPDATE: Figured I'd toss in a reference to my favorite programmer's font comparison chart:
http://www.darinhiggins.com/2007/08/05/BestProgrammingFont.aspx

tinjaw:
Don't forget that Dina is based off of Proggy, which is available as a TTF. I used to use Proggy exclusively until Jeff Atwood turned me on to Consolas.

f0dder:
I think Dina is "inspired by" and not "based off" Proggy :)

Poor support for .FON files on linux is one more thing that keeps me on Windows I guess, I'd hate to have to use another font than Dina :(

tinjaw:
The closest to perfect I found was the Proggy font, which the author kindly allows you to modify. So I started building this font using Proggy as the base, and with inspiration from Tobi, Fixedsys and some old DOS fonts I used to love.
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https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina/index.html

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