Converting Mac fonts for PC
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- andy_qube
We run both PC's and Macs in the sutudio (i use mac!).
We have been trying to find a way to unify our font collection so that the same file can be used on all computers. We basically need to create PC versions of our Mac fonts.
So far we'vehave found that Crossfont converts some but not all fonts and FontLab TTF's also work some of the time.
Any advice would be most appreciated. thanks.
- forcetwelve0
make them open type in fontlab ya bugga...
- andy_qube0
nah tries it, it only works some of the time, shark.
- forcetwelve0
ahh. bummer. i know once i played around with the 'make pmf files' settings and it worked from mac to pc. it's in the options of 'generate font'
- ********0
I ussually just buy or get TT PC versions since OSX does a great job of reading them
- andy_qube0
thanks same.
That had never occured to me.
Although, we stil have a bunch of Mac fonts we own tat we'd love to be able to use cross platform.have you had any troubles at all with PC versions?
- ********0
not yet. I think you can do postscript and TT. but for me, I have found PC TT to be the best crossplatform
- Dancer0
It's all about keeping the resource fork intact:
Read through:
http://www.asy.com/helpcf.htm
Scroll down a bit for "converting..."
- Boikov0
So OpenType doesn't always work on PCs?
- Baskerville0
truetype works fine on both platforms.
I use fontographer quite a lot, so if I want to convert fonts I just open up the file in there and generate font files for whatever platform/file type. Seems to work fine for me.
There's no way I could convert all my fonts like that though it would take years as I have 1000s of fonts.
- rafalski0
I get bad kerning problems sometimes, mostly in extended latin characters when moving TTF fonts from windows to osx, ie for Flash projects. I tried reexporting them in mac fontographer, but that did not help.
- andy_qube0
Thanks for your comments.
Any other suggestions would be aweome.