Preserved Topic: Looking for a freeware font....

Hi I'm looking for a freeware "interpretation" of Robust. Can anyone help me? I would appreciate it oh so much

Im looking for it

Found something vaguely similar.

Baby Universe
It's not quite as smooth though.
You'll find it here on page 2 under B.

Then I think I've seen a similar one called Blake or something like that, but I can't seem to find it

Thanks much for the effort guys....we're gonna try a go with baby universe...
edit>hmm...it's a bit much...the search continues...

[This message has been edited by Jeni (edited 01-08-2002).]

I mailed you the closest on I`ve got, jeni. Let me know if it`ll work.

Thanks bob....but...it doesn't appear to work on my mac

Hey Jeni I think I found it! From what i could find out, this font came with Illustrator 6.0. I hope it works on your mac.

Check your e-mail

Sorry Dark-no go on the version you sent me. We do have Illustrator 6 somewhere so maybe I can get my paws on a copy of that font after all Thanks a ton for finding that out for me

You seem to be having a problem with loading fonts. are you dragging them onto the system folder or opening the fonts folder and dragging them straight in there? I used to drag fonts over the system folder and get frequent problems but since dragging them straight into fonts folder I've had no problems.

I can see if I can find a Mac verison if you like

Morph-
All I do is cut and paste into the font folder in windows and they install themselves...






[This message has been edited by Dark (edited 01-09-2002).]

I think Morph was referring to me. Morph-They're giving me PC fonts. They don't work on Mac. Mac doesn't recognize them as a file type...
edit> Yeah that'd be great Dark. If you have the time...

[This message has been edited by Jeni (edited 01-09-2002).]

Yeah I know he was refering to you, I was just adding to the fact that that's also what I do. I'm pretty sure I can get you that font in Mac version.

Sit tight, Im on your case.

, Jon

I don't have the time to go thru them all, but i'm pretty sure there's a few similar ones at http://www.larabiefonts.com/

Chris


KAIROSinteractive

I remember where I used to work they had a software called FontHopper to convert fonts between PC/Mac. I really don't know all that much about how it works.

I did a search on-line, and it seems it was bought up by Adobe, and then they discontinued it.
I found this page: http://katgyrl.org/mgrs.htm where a Mac version can be downloaded.

And maybe there are other programs out there that can do the same thing?

Here is another PC to Mac conversion program called transtype

I was attempting to give Jeni advice on loading fonts into a mac but clearly the problem was the font type although i've always found true type fonts will work on a powermac or higher. I've worked with macs for years but only had a pc for a couple of months so i'm still finding my way around windows but as I havn't yet loaded any new fonts I will remember what you said when it comes to it Dark

TT Converter... fast, easy, elegant, accurate, PC to Mac True Type Font Converter.
$10.00 Shareware................
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=4632&db=mac

looking for a mac version for you also, I did also find that font $5.00 cheeper than the first link.. I'll keep looking for ya though... $49.99

{www.xtrae.com}

Guys she is looking for a freeware version (hense the name of this thread) Im sure there are many many many sites that have this font for mac version, but for what price?

Jeni I'm still working on getting this in mac version for free, but in the mean time try out the PC to Mac conversion tools.

(PS. congrads Synthetic on the new domain.)



[This message has been edited by Dark (edited 01-10-2002).]

Darkgarden and I worked with Mac and PC conversion Font packages yesterday...we were only able to get TrueTypes to even be recognized on Mac...and they still didn't work.
I don't know what sofware he was using....I think it may have been Fontographer...

TT Converter...try it.
or zip and mail me the PC font and I'll see what I can do with it.

http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=4632&db=mac

Hmmm cool thanks kromaz.
Just to clarify: Robust is a postscript font.

TT-Converter converts between formats, not between font types. It will
convert back and forth from PC to Mac TrueType and from PC to Mac
PostScript. It can not convert between TrueType and PostScript formats.

try it

Hmmm it's not recognizing it.....Hey Dark could you put all those in a folder and then compress it and re-email it to me?

Sure thing I'll send it to you right now

I got the stuffed font....When I uncompress it, it still isn't recognized...I'm gonna email it to you Kromaz like you suggested....

Jeni just got through converting the PC font to Mac and have tested it in AI (Mac) and all looks good.

It didn't work at first so I uninstalled Extensis Suitcase 8 and installed ATM 4.5 on my machine.....

Looks great.

It's on it's way .......let me know how it works out.

cheers.

Check this site....I haven't gone through the font links but there are 34 links to font sites. http://www.linkdup.com/
I am little late on this one but just to let you know

grr...full of typos this morning



[This message has been edited by indus2002 (edited 01-11-2002).]

Hi Kromaz I'm assuming you're on mac...here's the problem...when I uncompress the folder, the fonts are there, but they have the generic icon (os not recognizing file format)...Do you have any ideas? Are they in suitcases?

I'm on a Mac and they are in suitcases with the bitmap and printer font.

What font manager are you using ATM or Extensis Suitcase ?
If you are using ATM just drag the whole folder to the ATM window.
or
Try rebuilding your desktop.

Here's a screen cap of what is in the folder on my Mac.

Wait a gosh darn minute.....You're not going to believe this....They were showing up with simpletext icons and then I selected all of them and said to "un compress" and there they are! In suitcases! I am using Extensis suitcase 10.0 for the record. As I have been typing this, I was informed that they're changing the font LMAO. I love my job! I'll hold onto the font (and keep it close). I've learned a lot from this and I hope it was helpful for others. Thanks everybody!

To open a Zip or Stuffit Archive you always have to select all the folders or files in order to decompress them.
Next time I will use Stuffit instead of Zipit and the icons should show up properly.

For the record this was a good experiment for me also. It's always a bitch trying to match PC Fonts to Mac documents.

For future reference: PC fonts to Mac font Conversion:

TTConverter: Only for TrueType PC Fonts to Mac and Vise Versa.
TransType : Unpredictable results, PostScript PC Fonts to PostScript Mac Conversion. Works sometimes.
Fontographer : DG was on the right track. This app is best used on Mac to convert PC PS fonts to Mac PostScript.

One thing I found with Fontographer is that you have to assign a unique name to the font before conversion,
sellect all the fonts and type in the bitmap size.

cheers...

I feel like someone just gave birth to a child, heh