I guess it has to do with the data being stored in a 'fork' whatnot. I converted and emailed myself the fonts from the graphic designers laptop. Where wold I find the the 'data fork' and 'resource fork' on the Mac? I want to be able to tell the designer exactly where to look.ĭFontSplitter works on the original computer but not on my PC. Learning the basics of prepress graphic design This tutorial shows when using Adobe Illustrator how to convert text to outlines to avoid font hassles. (A different machine from the original.) 'Get Info' reveals that there is no file extension, leading me to believe that this is the newer font format.

The font doesn't work when downloaded to Mac OS X either. Can someone please explain that?ĭo I need both for a font conversion? What do I tell my graphic designer to send me? I saw something online about 'data fork' and 'resource fork' that has to match up. (FrancoNormal, actually.)ĭFontSplitter didn't work. (Surprise! I didn't thinks so, but I'd be a fool for asking if that was the answer, so I tried.) Perhaps I need to try a different extension?Īre there any utilities to convert the font? A Windows equivalent? It's called Franco. Windows Vista shows it as a 'File'.Ĭhanging the file extension doesn't work. Autohinting of the converted fonts, preview fonts before and after conversion, batch conversions of whole libraries of fonts. I have a font that was used on Mac OS X 10.5. In seconds you can convert any outline font to almost any other format on Mac and PC (PC Type 1, PC TrueType, Mac Type 1, Mac TrueType, PC Multiple Master, Mac Multiple Master).

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