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  • Fonts. Where do you get them?

    Posted by Gwaredd Steele on 22 August 2006 at 16:05

    I’m slowly swapping over from mac to pc & am a bit low on PC fonts. The mac ones won’t swap over, which is a shame, so was wondering where you guys get them from?

    Cheers,

    Gwaredd.

    David Rowland replied 19 years, 4 months ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Nick Minall

    Member
    22 August 2006 at 16:18

    you could try this…
    http://fontlab.com/Font-tools/TransType/
    …to convert your fonts.

  • David Rogers

    Member
    22 August 2006 at 18:38

    What format are your MAC fonts in? If adobe .pfb then signlab will happily use them.

    A great source for free fonts is PC magazine coverdisks – often get thousand given away, and typing in ‘free fonts’ in a web search.

    Dave

  • Gwaredd Steele

    Member
    22 August 2006 at 19:55

    True type & post script David. Some work fine, others not. Should I have recieved a font disc when I upgraded to flexi 7?

  • David Rowland

    Member
    23 August 2006 at 10:48

    most of ours come from Corel CD2 or Gerber Omega CD although the expensive Adobe CD’s didn’t contain many at all!
    The others come from Explosion clip art CD’s and collected over the years.

  • Tim Painter

    Member
    23 August 2006 at 12:12

    or you could be naughty and use Newsgroups

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    23 August 2006 at 13:12
    quote Tim Painter:

    or you could be naughty and use Newsgroups

    Tell us more Tim

  • Tim Painter

    Member
    23 August 2006 at 13:33

    There is a Newsgroup – alt.binaries.fonts

    Where people swop fonts, you can put requests for certain fonts and users may help. Don’t put your own email address on a newsgroup though otherwise you will run out of bread before you run out of spam.lol

    Ill wait for the copyright arguments to start after this then……..

    I don’t condone it but it has helped me out on a few occasions when I have had my back against the wall……….

    Tim.

  • David Rowland

    Member
    23 August 2006 at 13:36

    hope u got a quality virus checker too

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