Adobe Illustrator Save to TTF

Question

I've been wondering this for a while and I know there are several threads of others discussing the desire to make fonts straight inside of Illustrator.
While there are ways to make a font inside of Illustrator there is no way to export directly from Illustrator to TTF or OTF or any other font file format to then directly load into the fonts folder and start using. With Illustrator having the capability to make custom brushes and save will we ever see an export to TTF?
Will labs ever be creating an addition to Illustrator to save out a font file?

Answer 1

Hi Stephen,
The problem is that the input for the page range is text (even if it is just one number). You're trying to put in a Number (the i you get from the loop). You'll need to convert the number to a string, probably by using the "as text" command.
What I use is (simplified): first check for multiple art boards (and set the range as text), if there is only one set the multiple artboards option to false, else set the page range. You don't have to build a loop to export each artboard seperately.
tell document 1
if (count of artboards) > 1 then
set pagina_bereik to "1-" & ((count of artboards) as text)
else
set pagina_bereik to "1"
end if
end tell
if pagina_bereik = "1" then
save document 1 in file DestFIle as eps with options {class:EPS save options, preview:color TIFF, embed all fonts:true, embed linked files:true, include document thumbnails:true, PostScript:level 2, save multiple artboards:false}
else
save document 1 in file DestFIle as eps with options {class:EPS save options, preview:color TIFF, embed all fonts:true, embed linked files:true, include document thumbnails:true, PostScript:level 2, save multiple artboards:true, artboard range:pagina_bereik}
end if
Hope this helps,
Ton