PC fonts headache
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- Quill
Hello folks,
So, for the most part I'm a mac user. Every now and again I get a contract in a shop that uses PC's exclusivley so I have working knowledge of xp but certainly not the expertise I have with OSX.
Fonts. fonts fonts fonts. I'm trying to install a full, licensed font suitcase on the machine here and am running into headaches.
There are 4 file types that I can see. pfb, inf, pfm, and afm. When I try to copy/paste in to the fonts folder the afm and pfb file types come up with an invalid/damaged error. I get another alert that says the "type1" files copy without issue although I don't know which of the aforementioned file type that is.
Even after restart none of the fonts are read by illustrator photoshop etc etc.
And there is no font management program installed.
Any help for this lonley mac user in a pc world?
- neverblink0
this was covered earlier this week:
- jaylarson0
Get Font Xplorer X. it'll really help:, and it's free.
http://www.linotype.com/2006/too…It'll play most everything
- Quill0
So if I didn't use a font utility (don't know if the place I'm freelancing at will allow me to intstall software) how would I go about installing and activating this font.
- Quill0
Thanks a lot for all the advice guys. I convinced my employeer to purchase suitcases for window and found a way around it.
The weird thing was, in order for suitcases to recongize the fonts I had to copy them to a folder outside the system fonts folder. Is that normal?
- yes. shortcuts are created in windows font folder. that's how it works.********
- in xp i had a c:/psfonts/ folder like that. recently in Vista, i have not yet installed psfonts but it seems you just right-click to install.********
- and install them directly.********
- yes. shortcuts are created in windows font folder. that's how it works.
- fyoucher10
Use Adobe Font Manager to install ur Postscript fonts, its a free program.
http://www.adobe.com/products/at…
Should work like a charm :)
- liquid0
all you have to do is install adobe type manager lite.. like fyoucher says... and they can be used on osx as well...
- liquid0
at least I think they can... I just sent pfb and whatever to a person on a mac the other day... although I think they were running XP with parallels or something
- ********0
no need to install ATM in xp (scroll down a wee bit):
http://www.myfonts.com/support/h…