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Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - mrlynn - 01-04-2007
I thought those incompatible days were behind us, but I'm trying to give a sign maker a couple of fonts from my Macs (Frutiger and Textile), used in our logo, and his PC is rejecting them.
I tried copying them over to a PC here, deleting the '._' resource file, adding an extension (.ttf or .fnt) to the main file, and still no luck. The Windoze Font folder says they are damaged or something.
Is there a way to do this?
/Mr Lynn
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - jesse - 01-04-2007
You may need to go through a converter, this one is freeware:
http://www.netmagic.net/~evan/shareware/#TTFontConvert
jesse
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - enrico7300 - 01-04-2007
Well, that's half true. New OpenType fonts are cross-platform. Most Truetypes are. Postscript Type 1s are not.
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - jdc - 01-04-2007
can you just outline your fonts before you give him the file?
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - MacMagus - 01-04-2007
They may not be TT fonts. Mac OS X can use many kinds of fonts.
If you examine the fonts in a font manager, such as Suitcase or FontExplorer or Apple's Font Book, there's inevitably a way to get info on the font to find out what kind of font it is. That's the first thing to check if you really need to send them copies of the fonts. Then you can rename the font files or convert them as appropriate without simply guessing.
But do they really need the fonts? Are they recreating your logo or just reproducing it? If the latter then why not simply send them an eps file of the logo? Or as Don suggested in the other forum, a PDF file?
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - mrlynn - 01-04-2007
Jesse, the link is to a "System 7 or greater" (i.e. Classic) utility for True Type fonts only. I'm creating this sign in OS 9, but then e-mailing via Mail.app on OS X. Not sure if this would work. . .
The logo is an EPS, via Freehand 7. The whole sign is an EPS, actually, from Pagemaker 6.
He says he needs an EPS, but apparently his software still needs the fonts to display the EPS files. I have had MS Word read the logo on some PCs in the past; not sure why the sign-making program won't.
Textile is an Apple True Type GX font. Frutiger is an Adobe PS Pair (outline?).
/Mr Lynn
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - incognegro - 01-04-2007
did you try zipping them before copying to the PC?
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - MacMagus - 01-04-2007
> He says he needs an EPS, but apparently his software still needs the fonts to display the EPS files.
It's not his fault. The file that you're sending him uses the fonts.
Word probably uses the embedded raster preview rather than the eps when it imports the file. That wouldn't be sufficient for professional output.
GX fonts pose unique conversion problems. You may not be able to make a compatible font file from it. 'Sounds like Frutiger is a Type 1 or Type 3 that requires both a suitcase and outline font file.
You're best off making a version of the file in which the fonts have been converted to outlines. Do you know how to do that in Freehand?
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - mrlynn - 01-04-2007
[quote MacMagus]> . . .You're best off making a version of the file in which the fonts have been converted to outlines. Do you know how to do that in Freehand?
No, I don't. Do you? Can you tell me?
/Mr Lynn
Re: Help! Can't Transfer Mac Fonts to PC! - jdc - 01-04-2007
same answer: outline the fonts in your logo in freehand
why not create the whole in in freehand and then outline the fonts?