.pfb/pfm font files on a mac
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- ninjasavant
I have these postscript fonts I need to use and they will not work on my mac. Is there any utility that will convert them? Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
- jimbojones0
you can open pfb files with FL, but they're only outlines.
again, happens when you steal fonts.
- ninjasavant0
Not stolen, they're the fonts we use at work for our packaging deliverables and they work on a PC. I've recently moved to a mac workstation and am discovering the pains of conversion this being one of them. Looking for help to convert valid fonts else I'll just repurchase them if you must know.
- most foundries will give you the fonts in another format if you show the invoicejimbojones
- There's 300,000 people here. I doubt I'm gonna find either the receipt or the foundry.ninjasavant
- what fonts exactly are you talking about?jimbojones
- Helvetica Neue 63UltraCondensed or something like that, a whole collection of them.ninjasavant
- check your mailjimbojones
- Coffeemaker0
you sir, are fucked beyond comprehension
- oh no, I can comprehend it.ninjasavant
- and it sucks.ninjasavant
- ninjasavant0
thanks for the leads, nothing yet though :(
- ninjasavant0
Found this, gonna give it a try
http://guides.macrumors.com/Usin…- fuck, why do people think I want to read complicated X11 instructionsninjasavant
- Coffeemaker0
did someone say found?
- mirrorball0
any luck yet?
- he doesn't seem to check his mail too often...jimbojones
- mail me it too jailbones, please?
mirrorball - mail what?jimbojones
- ninjasavant0
Was at a party. Through a combination of jimbojones efforts and getting that damn x11 thing to work we got it done. Thanks everyone.
- mirrorball0
Will yah let me know how yah did it Ninjasavant... when you sober up of course.
- heathen0
yes, please share how you went about it. got some fonts i need to convert myself.
- pixelbeat0
Try this:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net…It's a simple piece of software, looks really crappy but works like magic.
- nico4120
Fontxchange
http://www.fontgear.net/fontxcha…
- ninjasavant0
Here's how I got it to work:
followed the instructions here:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net…
but skipped the configuring X11 portion since I didn't want access to my system fonts, only the ones I was trying to convert.
I converted them to straight up TrueType (not the mac dfont option) and it told me there was some error or something missing and saved it anyway, now all of the fonts are good to go. It was a free, if not ugly and a little complicated, solution.- uh-oh, was it the kerning that was missing? this happens very often.jimbojones
- ninjasavant0
Seems like it came out ok:
