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Archives => 2003 => Topic started by: CyberPet on April 22, 2003, 09:24:00 AM

Title: Font experts needed!
Post by: CyberPet on April 22, 2003, 09:24:00 AM

OK, here's the deal:

At my work they have more or less thrown out most of the Mac's and they have some fonts they want to convert (don't ask me why they don't just get a PC-version of the font) so I promised I'd find out the best solutions to convert these fonts and what platform it's done best.

I know there's converters to convert TrueType, but the problem is they want to have Postscript fonts.

I have an old copy of Fontographer, but I'm not sure if I can do it there and in that case HOW. I've seen an option for converting a Postscript font to PC Truetype, but I'm not sure you can also do PC Postscirpt.

Since the copy of Fontographer I have isn't really a legal one I want to find out if it *can* do this, in that case they'll buy the license.

So now you know the setup:

Mac postscript fonts ----> PC postcript fonts

How to do it?

Title: Font experts needed!
Post by: tacit on April 22, 2003, 11:27:00 PM

Yes, Fontographer can do it.

Open the PostScript part ofthe font in Fontographer. Then go to File->Generate Fonts. In the Generate Fonts dialog, choose "PC PostScript" as your font format.

Title: Font experts needed!
Post by: CyberPet on April 22, 2003, 11:33:00 PM

Thanks tacit!

Any worries about Font ID-tags and such that I need to think about?