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Buying Fonts
Hi All
Anyone know where i can purchase Meta Black Italic from?
I have tried searching the web but all the pages i found don’t work.
I need this ASAP as i have a job pending, and the artwork i have is to bad a quality for me to vectorise.
Thanks in advance
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Hi mate,
I needed this font a while back and couldn’t find it at a sensible price anywhere ! If you only have to do a logo or a short bit of text you could go here http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontfont/f … drive.html and type your text in then copy and paste into Corel etc and trace by hand fairly easily. This only gives a fairly low res image but its good enough for most applications. Alternatively you can go to the same site and get the character map up for Meta and if you click the letters you want you get a nice big version to copy from – a bit more tedious as you have to do it one by one but worth a go if there arn’t many.
You could also do the above and then send it to Andrew at Vectorwise if you are not confident with doing the trace yourself this is still much cheaper than buying the font.Hope that helps a little bit 🙂
Nigel
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Nigel I just had a go at this but corel just brings up a box for adding text!
What am I doing wrong?Cheers
Dave
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i agree with nigel mate..
watch you have the correct name for the font and not an alternative name like many use. signlab have their own names for all the fonts. i know this is because they have slightly modified versions of the font though..
helvetica bold = Helvb
futura bold = fluteb
etc etc
you could also try ebay.co.uk and search for bundled fonts CDs
the only problem is you may get 20,000 fonts and that one is hnot on it. 😉
what we do on occassions is to say we have a very close alternative that we can use, but if you want the exact font matched you will eather have to give us it on a floppy disk or we charge you for a matching.
most times they go for something close or already have the font at home on their PC. -
Thanks Guys I will look into this on Monday
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Dave,
Don’t know quite what you did mate, but you need to type out your text string on the font site, then set the point size to the largest available and then right click the string of text the site generates and copy this to the clipboard. Then go into corel and paste the image of the text into your file.
I probably made that sound more difficult than it actually is 😕Nigel
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That is exactly what I did Nigel, having trouble with this pc at the mo so I will blame it on that. I will go and have another go.
Dave
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