title: How to convert a bitmap font (.FON) into a truetype font (.TTF)?
body: <p>My program (win32, Delphi) needs to display special chars in some columns of a table. To do that I use a special font for those columns. I got the font from my client. It is a .FON font. It works good on the screen but I often get problems as soon as I want to use it to print something.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to convert this .FON font into to truetype font (.TTF) to avoid the problems. I don't care if the font does not scale good. I should just looks exactly the same when used on the screen with the same size as the default size of the original font.
  Do someone know a way to do that?</p>
  
  <p>(It don't necessary need a source code solution. The font won't change. It's enough if I find a tool to do it)</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Ideal would be to get a truetype font where each pixel of the original font is converted into a vectorial black square (I tested by redrawing a few chars manually, it would works as I want).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit 2, solution used:</strong> Using <a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">FontForge</a> + <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/" rel="noreferrer">Autotrace</a> and then making corrections manually I was able to get a vector font that follow the outline of the pixels of the bitmap font. This vector font scales somewhat better than the original font and solve my printing problems. See accepted post for details.</p>
  
  <p>But I'm still interested if someone knows a fully automated solution.</p>