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The font used in Ford's logo - Ford Motor Company

From: James Combs
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 20:32:08 GMT

Thanks, James

I need ttf editor

From: Daniel
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:59:15 GMT

Chinese True Type Fonts

From: Ju Wang
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:09:54 GMT

Ju

Franklin Gothic & Bauer Bodoni

From: Keene Benson
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 16:09:21 GMT

How to smoothing TTF on screen?

From: SC Chui
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 05:54:55 GMT

How to transform TrueType text to Bitmap

From: LX CAO
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:20:27 GMT

I want to know how to transform TrueType text to Bitmap. For example, I type "ABC"(Amaze Font) in a view window, then I can save it as a bitmap, not texts.

Thank you

ANSI to UNICODE font conversion

From: Ivan Marinov
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 20:50:36 GMT

TRUE TYPE FONT FILE FORMAT

From: S MUTHU GANESH
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 15:47:46 GMT

Printing

From: Lisa
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 03:15:25 GMT

Sounds like you're using a printer driver that thinks there's a TT rasterizer built into the printer. Check you're using the driver that came with the printer. -- Laurence

How can I smooth them?

From: David
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 06:19:32 GMT

Converter

From: BG Bibeault
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:08:53 GMT

BG Bibeault

True Type Font Format

From: Arash Aghassi
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 23:39:14 GMT

TT PC to Mac conversion

From: George Grant
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:46:43 GMT

font printing different than screen view

From: Becky
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 16:49:42 GMT

Strange as it may sound, this is an indirect consequence of Adobe and Microsoft being unwilling to talk to each other sensibly several years ago. Back then, Adobe was installing the "standard 35" fonts inside all their printers. Microsoft wanted a "visually compatible" set, without paying Adobe or Linotype a penny in royalties. This notion sounds awful today, but is the reason for Microsoft's development of Monotype's Arial (for Helvetica), Book Antiqua (for Palatino), Corsiva (for Zapf Chancery), and several others. These fonts are designed to be "metrically compatible" (another horrible phrase you thankfully don't hear much these days) with the PostScript counterparts, so that most users (they weren't thinking of designers) would not notice the difference. Identical line breaks when using the Monotype fonts was of crucial importance for their target users.

The problem you're experiencing is related to another tedious "user" (rather than designer) issue: network traffic. If a printer's internal font is used, there's less data to send it. So Windows has a mechanism to substitute printer fonts when a certain TrueType font is used in a document. By default this means you get the PostScript fonts when you use one of the "compatible" fonts. You'll be pleased to know you can easily disable these substitutions. One way would be to rename Monotype Corsiva. A more elegant way is to remove the relevant line in WIN.INI, a section of which I've copied out below. -- Laurence

[Pscript TrueType Substitutions]
Arial=Helvetica
Arial Narrow=Helvetica-Narrow
Book Antiqua=Palatino
Bookman Old Style=Bookman
Century Gothic=AvantGarde
Century Schoolbook=NewCenturySchlbk
Courier New=Courier
Monotype Corsiva=ZapfChancery ; <-- REMOVE THIS LINE!
Monotype Sorts=ZapfDingbats
Symbol=Symbol
Times New Roman=Times

How to convert Arabic TrueType PC into TT Macintosh using Fontographer or TT convertor .Mac

From: Raouf A. malek
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 04:47:39 GMT

Tamil TTF

From: Suresh
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 02:06:13 GMT

I'd like to create some fonts for my mother tongue (Tamil) I'am an artist, and I have just started using computers. Could you please explain how to create fonts. I have fontographer.

Thank you

Suresh

Moon

From: Shannon Steyn
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 13:45:37 GMT

Thank you.

TrueType Converter

From: Brett Riordan
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 15:56:31 GMT

Am looking to download (hopefully for free) a copy of TrueType Converter, or some similart software. Need to convert PC TTFs to Mac TTFs.

Thanks,

Brett

Instruction in True Type Format

From: Hariadi
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 06:52:19 GMT

Thanks, hariadi

The instructions themselves don't move to the stack, but they operate on items that have been pushed there, either by PUSH instructions or as the result of previous instructions. It's not that tricky to write a program to list all the instructions in a TT font, assuming you know how to parse the 'glyf' table. Each glyph program is simply a list of bytecodes (which you can look up in the TT specification), with the exception of the PUSH instructions which are immediately followed by the data they push onto the stack. Download TTFDUMP from Microsoft's type site to see what you should be getting. -- Laurence

ttf - symbol format....

From: muralee
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 16:01:44 GMT

i created a tamil language font with fontographer 3.5 in symbol format, so that i can use all the places in a true type font. now the problem is while iam trying to use it in frontpage98 a web page editor, that editor puts equivalent character codes for example there is one character which would sound like "ka". if i have to type the above said word i have to type the character 'f'. But that editor put a code &141. i know this is because of the format of that font iam using is "symbol". Anyone knows how can i convert to someother format so that frontpage98 will put the ascii codes back... any font converting tool available...

Bush for President

From: Nafai
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:13:27 GMT

most common fonts

From: Ariadne Castilho Ferreira da Costa
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:18:03 GMT

different with adobe font

From: Raymond
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 03:44:47 GMT

Greek & Hebrew Fonts - free downloads

From: John Patterson
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 03:37:31 GMT

TrueType in Multimedia

From: Chris Kolaskos
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 20:08:34 GMT

I am a student at Columbus State Community College, studying Multimedia Production Technology. I am currently researching TrueType fonts in Multimedia. I was wondering if someone could provide me with some detailed information concerning TrueType!! What is the use of TrueType font technology in the multimedia industry? I know that this website contains detailed info on my question but I was hoping you could give me a general answer for the many uses in the multimedia industry. I know the history of TrueType, but would like some insight into its general uses in the Multimedia industry!!

Thank you for your help!

Chris Kolaskos
student
cek111@yahoo.com

interstate highway font

From: Steven
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:40:47 GMT

In serach of...

From: Jus
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 12:51:00 GMT

How can I convert postscript font to true type?

From: Alfred
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 03:09:02 GMT

true type map

From: Umi Sa'adah
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 05:07:22 GMT

Font "Skia" (Mac) for PC

From: Albin
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:04:55 GMT

true type font documentation

From: Bambang Sutrisno
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:05:42 GMT

composites to glyph or cmap?

From: Rafael
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 03:10:12 GMT

student question

From: Christopher E. Kolaskos
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 00:41:30 GMT

HOW TO FIND A SPECIFIC FONT

From: SINE
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 18:31:58 GMT

Arabic characters & HP Laserjet 5Si

From: Aiman
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 09:50:09 GMT

Convert->Vector

From: Nihat TUNALI
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:31:23 GMT

euro ecu character in windows 3.1

From: Thomas Pedersen
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:52:46 GMT

True Type to CHR converter

From: Ozgur Gumus
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:13:00 GMT

free fonts

From: Claude
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:49:04 GMT

reverse font

From: bob judem
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:46:59 GMT

Moving the fonts off of my HD to a zip disk

From: Ferdie
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:48:39 GMT

font conversion (postscript to tt)

From: kev
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:03:28 GMT

convert mac pac fonts

From: philippe
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:21:41 GMT

SFP signatures to TrueType?

From: John Garrett
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:21:46 GMT

Pascal "chr" Fonts

From: Ozgur Gumus
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:50:51 GMT

Displaying emphasized text

From: Graham Knight
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:38:58 GMT

TrueType Fonts

From: Debi Decker
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 21:17:36 GMT

True-Type conversion to .afmfile

From: Tim Finks
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 21:02:04 GMT

font stub, 2nd

From: Rafael
Date: n, 1 Nov 1998 12:02:18 GMT

Poetica Roman font

From: Chung-Cheng
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 06:44:14 GMT

spacing after a period in a sentence--two or one?

From: Epoch
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:48:51 GMT

True Type Assignment

From: Yumiko Kuwayama
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:56:07 GMT

TrueType fonts won't print

From: Kevin Thorley
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 00:00:56 GMT

FONT FOR A PC

From: JOHN RUSSO
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:17:42 GMT

typography history

From: Nathalie Spendlove
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 23:01:01 GMT

TTF file format specification

From: Alex Sinitsin
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:12:19 GMT

Finding "Ariel Bold"

From: Marc Soldano
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:56:07 GMT

TrueType vs Postscript

From: Linda Bethel
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 20:39:09 GMT

TrueType or PostScript? Windows 2 Mac?

From: Larry
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:10:20 GMT

Font not found

From: Larry
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:54:44 GMT

recommend a font manager pls

From: robin krout
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:07:44 GMT

Palation Truetypes

From: Allard Swart
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:23:10 GMT

Helvetica and Palatino Fonts

From: Cindy Nabbie
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:10:21 GMT

Mac vs PC naming convention

From: Damon Leedham
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:56:26 GMT

converting .ttf to Apple TrueType ( Arabic )

From: Sean Malek
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:39:10 GMT

TTF Structure?

From: T.M.
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:41:25 GMT

missing font

From: Shirley
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 21:54:43 GMT

Truetype to HP

From: Paul HOwse
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:35:17 GMT

cross platform

From: Rod Humiecki
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:49:45 GMT

Another name for TAHOMA?

From: Paul van der Weyde
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 09:09:59 GMT

Thanx in advance

Paul

Tahoma is the genuine name for this font, used throughout the user interface of Office 97. It's similar to Verdana, but more tightly set. It has a very large character set including Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic. -- Laurence

Font "Drop-out" in Win95

From: John D. Peedle
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:12:07 GMT

All went well untill we installed the font onto users PCs. All of a sudden, without warning, the characters displayed in whatever application was using the font would be replaced by the appropriate "english" character i.e. A for ascii 65 etc.

The only cure we could find was to double click on the font in the Fonts folder, click done on the ensuing dialog box (which also displayed characters not present in the font) and restart the PC

Its got me totally baffled and I would be grateful for any assistance

Many thanks

Fontographer and PINK

From: Jason Glavy
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 05:17:58 GMT

CG Times available in TrueType? Where?

From: James Combs
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:12:36 GMT

ChelmsfordBook true type font

From: Cindy Feeser
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:35:34 GMT

I need a ttf arabic!!!!

From: gianni
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:42:13 GMT

Looking for source of a particular TT font

From: Jeff Rankin-Lowe
Date: 11 October 1998 09:59

words splitting in my new font

From: pburdett
Date: 09 October 1998 22:09

The ttf I have created works fine in Word until I get to the end of the line and then the word is split, so half the word is on the next line.

Please, please can you help.
Peter

Sounds like you may have a badly coded space character. If it has to, when it comes across a word that's too long, MSWord will split words. Your space character may be fooling MSWord that it's a "non-breaking space", and hence the line looks like one long word. -- Laurence

Converting Postscript fonts to True Type

From: Carrie Harrington
Date: 09 October 1998 13:52

You must be using Windows NT for this to happen. In general, this conversion is reckoned to be pretty good. But it is not really desirable to have a converted font, especially not if you'll be printing on PostScript printers. In this case, NT can be set to use the TrueType for the screen, the Type 1 for printing. Now that ATM is available for NT (NT 4 at least), it's best to use the Type 1 for both screen and printer. -- Laurence

UK Road Signs TTF

From: John Gray
Date: 06 October 1998 13:33

John

no subject

From: Jurgen Honer
Date: 05 October 1998 17:53

Uhh?

TTF hinted

From: Armando H. Marroquin
Date: 05 October 1998 14:08

Help me please. I have made some chess character fonts in Corel Draw 7.0 and looks fine. For a professional finish I bought the Fontographer 4.1 for Windows (I want a hinted fonts). I tried to renew my fonts in the Fontographer but I have problems. I did this steps:

1) I loaded a TTF chess font with
File > Open Font

2) I renamed the font in
Element > Font Info and

3) I generated the font with
File > Generate... > PC > TrueType

After I installed the 'new' font in Windows (3.1 and 95) and I obtain a character set with white vertical rectangles only.

However if I open the 'new' font back up in Fontographer, the character set looks fine. Please tell me what I must to do.

Thanks in advance,

Armando H. Ma

I am sorry to tell you that Fontographer is not the tool to give you well-hinted TrueTypes for Windows. Much better would have been FontLab. But the character set problem is another matter. Corel is not a font-making tool any professionals recommend - possibly it gives characters unusual codes. One way of making things work for now would be create a new, empty font in Fontographer, then copy each character from the old font into the new one. You can do this easily in one go, by "dragging" on the character map window. Then save and try out the font. -- Laurence

Windows to Mac Conversion

From: Vector
Date: 05 October 1998 03:31

SIT files are Stuffit archives. Use the shareware Stuffit program to extract these files. You'll then need to use Refont (see Aug 28 below) to use the font in Windows. -- Laurence

Ragged Edges

From: Julie Moore
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:11:52 GMT

I've run into a problem I've so far been unable to solve, although I suspect it's not uncommon. I'm using a WYSIWYG text editor to create web pages, and I've been doing the headings in my paint program. Almost all of the fonts I've tried using show up with ragged edges...especially on the curves. I found a Microsoft download that I thought would smooth them out, but it hasn't helped, and I haven't even been able to figure out the point of it. (It sits as a Plus! in my desplay settings).

While the type looks better once I import it into the web page, the smoothing causing a puckering effect around the letters. Can you tell me what to do to solve this problem please. Thank you.

The MS font smoothing extension enhances text in most normal situations, but some applications (such as paint apps) may assume text is always made up of solid pixels, not shades in between black and white (or foreground and background). The trick is to find an app that likes the smooth edges, colour the text as you want, then import the text from that using a screen grabber. -- Laurence

TEX and TTF

From: Jason Glavy
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 04:03:53 GMT

True Type = Type 42

From: Martin
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:44:24 GMT

I am looking for PDF writer that in process of creation of pdf file will not convert True Type fonts to Type 42, but leave as real True Type fonts, I need this procedure to keep the orginal quality of the True Type font. Adobe Acrobat does the conversion and font looses its orignal hints, and the same time loosing quality.

Thanks
Martin

Type 42 is still TrueType: it's simply a rearrangement of the binary data, and thus preserves the outlines and hints in complete accuracy. If you're getting unexpected results, then the PDF is substituting another font for some reason. -- Laurence

How to enable TrueType Fonts

From: yhl
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:58:02 GMT

greek fonts

From: anastasios safridis
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:08:36 GMT

TrendexSSK Font

From: Stacey Lane
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:40:38 GMT

I use the TrendexSSK font for letterhead with Windows 95. I tried to use this font in a Windows 98 environment but it is not the same. Is there some way I could get this font to "work" with Win 98? Or is there a font that is compatible?

Thank you for any information you can provide.

It's probably a buggy TrueType that happened still to work in Windows 95. There are a few enhancements to Win 98's font system, and it's possible some of these are detectors for potentially dangerous fonts. -- Laurence

True Type On Postscript Printers

From: Charles Brown
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 22:26:52 GMT

They should just work. Are you trying to use Windows TTFs or something? -- Laurence

truetype helvetica font

From: charles Bass
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:43:41 GMT

From your local Linotype representative. -- Laurence

Use TTF from Windows95 on Apple Macintosh ?

From: Gunther Richter
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:20:08 GMT

See the response to the Jul 27 question below. -- Laurence

What are some approaches to auto-hinting?

From: Don Speray
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 09:06:00 GMT

learning from glyph programs

From: Don Speray
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:28:45 GMT

P.S. Your site has an impressive signal-to-noise ratio.

An interesting one. I don't know the answer. -- Laurence

antialiase TrueType text On TV monitor

From: pengshy
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 10:52:52 GMT

Thanks.

sincerely
PengShy

If you use the functions TextOut and GetGlyphOutline (in bitmap mode) on a colour hdc, you should obtain anti-aliased type. You can choose different foreground and background colours. You will need the "Plus!" pack or the Microsoft add-on for anti-aliased type. For video though, it may be better to switch off hinting altogether (since sharp edges can cause flicker) and enable anti-aliasing at all sizes. You can do this for any TrueType font with the shareware 'gasp' table editor, TTFGASP. -- Laurence

true type on Mac

From: Miki
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 19:17:39 GMT

When presenting work to printers who like to put it thru a mac, just to make sure!, before making plates. If i've used True Type in the artwork they tell me to find a postscript equivelent.

My question is...why? Can Macs not understand True Type? Do the Mac need to be running something like Adobe Type Manager? Can I go back to my printer and tell him he's talking crap?

Any light shed on this subject would be greatly appreciated as this headache is getting bigger!

Macs can certainly deal with TrueType fonts. But he's not talking total crap. Some old PostScript printers do not handle TrueType well. And it's unfortunate that there are more bug-ridden TrueTypes out there than Type 1 - there's simply more to go wrong. If you obtain your TrueTypes from reputable sources and your printers have recent equipment there should be few problems. -- Laurence

Windows 95 & WordPerfect 5.1

From: Pam Fleming
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:35:21 GMT

I recently installed Windows 95 and now cannot print using TrueType fonts for DOS on my WordPerfect 5.1. Have tried reinstalling TrueType and going through the trouble-shooting tips in the manual, but nothing helps. The first page prints out with " 0402m0rPF SMLSAR 0,'Journal[Run WPT] " The next page appears to be in standard (Journal) WP font and crowds the letters together and overlaps some of them. It's pretty much unreadable.

I am using an HP Deskjet 500C. I had no problems with WP 5.1 and this printer when using standard DOS and after installing Windows 3.1.0. Just after Windows 95. What have I done wrong? I love my TrueType typestyles and want to continue using it with WordPerfect 5.1.

I'd appreciate any tips you can provide.

Thanks very much.

Pam Fleming
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I don't know about the continued use of TT for DOS in Windows 95. Perhaps it thinks the fonts are in a particular folder, in which case you could create a new folder and copy the fonts you need into it. The Windows/Fonts directory is handled with special routines in Windows 95 - it is not a "normal" directory - so might confuse an old program.

TrueType Converter Help?

From: Merrick Hard
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 03:30:23 GMT

Thanks for all your help in advance!

Merrick Hard (enthusiastic newbie)

Some cheap fonts do not have certain information (e.g. in the 'cmap' and 'name' tables) essential for use on the Mac.-- Laurence

Original TrueType Fonts

From: Charlie Cook
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 04:02:42 GMT

Effect of Installed Fonts on RAM

From: Ken Fermoyle
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:14:56 GMT

In Windows 3.1 it was not the case that "all installed fonts were loaded into RAM". I understand that a small reference to each font was in RAM, meaning that lots of fonts could exhaust resources and hence slow down a system. Windows 95 is certainly more efficient with fonts than Win 3.1, but the exact details of when fonts go in and out of RAM are complicated and not publicized. -- Laurence

Point Size Variances

From: Gwen Gall
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:38:35 GMT

I guess it's a new version of Garamond, such as might be bundled with a LaserJet printer driver. Different versions of Garamond may well have different apparent sizes at the same point size. This goes back to the traditional way type was used. Individual pieces of lead type would be cast on a particular body-height, this being the font's size in points. The ascenders would normally reach just about to the top of this height, the descenders would reach almost to the bottom. If the typesetting called for more spacing between lines, then "leading" (thin horizontal strips of lead) would be placed between lines. However, some type designers preferred always to design with the leading "built-in", so that type could never be set too tightly and additional leading would not be necessary to use the font as intended. Because Garamond's types were revived by many different foundries, each with their different practices, you will find that the sizes of different revivals sometimes do not match. Think of it as a interesting historical anomaly! -- Laurence

Typeface Numbers

From: Richard Stevens
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 08:07:13 GMT

TrueType and MS programs

From: Natasha Karr
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:36:20 GMT

Any help would be great.

N Karr

It depends: a) on whether the creator of the TrueType font has placed all the characters that are needed in the correct positions; b) on whether it's been checked for bugs; c) on whether you can live with the lower screen quality, since the new TrueType font probably won't be as carefully hinted as the MS ones. Fonts from a reputable foundry should normally pass the first two tests; a select few fonts from Monotype, Linotype, Adobe and Font Bureau (and a few other places) pass the third. -- Laurence

Converting a MAX font to a TTF for use on Windows

From: Brian Mitter
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:56:03 GMT

See the response to the Aug 28 question below. Alternatively, get the resource fork of the font, delete the first 388 bytes, change the first 4 bytes to 0x00010000, and rename the file to skia.ttf. This will work in Windows. -- Laurence

Please help me in reading Chinese Text!!

From: Huy Vu
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 03:02:17 GMT

How to add a new font

From: andre
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 04:45:27 GMT

Could be many things. Maybe it is a dud font. Maybe it's compressed and you need to unzip/unstuff/... it. Maybe it's a Mac format font. -- Laurence

Font Conversion

From: John Burton
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 05:06:03 GMT

See the response to the Jul 27 question below. -- Laurence

Old Printer

From: Jeff
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:04:35 GMT

font stub?

From: Rafael
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 00:13:17 GMT

The main purpose of 'sbits' is to add bitmaps at particular sizes to existing fonts, not to create a TrueType font that only contains bitmaps. As yet, I don't think this is recommended. -- Laurence

TTF on Mac

From: Arvin Lodaya
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:29:25 GMT

I'm surprised. Officially, TTF files will only work on System 8.5 or later! Until then, you need to use a conversion program like TTconverter. For the reverse direction, use Refont. -- Laurence

Converting TTF fonts to HP downloadable

From: mike
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:49:35 GMT

Yes. Check out the TTFtoSFP and Striker pages on this site. -- Laurence

Computer Modern Roman CMP

From: Joe Majdalani
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 00:06:19 GMT

High quality Type 1 versions of Computer Modern are available for free from Blue Sky Research.Go to this FTP directory and download the 2.8Mb file containing 75 fonts. -- Laurence

Bitmap to TTF

From: Arthur
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 11:56:45 GMT

No. Curve tracing of bitmaps would be quite a complex process to put into the API of an operating system. There are several techniques, some more suitable for fonts than others; thus it's a facility best left to specialist applications like StreamLine from Adobe and ScanFont from the creators of FontLab. -- Laurence

CG Times TrueType font

From: James Combs
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:56:07 GMT

Thank you, James

TrueType versions of all the internal fonts come with the printer drivers for these printers. If you need the fonts and don't have the printer, you can probably obtain them from Agfa, who made them. -- Laurence

TTf identification

From: Roger Swanson
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:05:00 GMT

Most foundries sell you a PostScript fonts unless you specifically request TrueType. -- Laurence

display arabic texts

From: j.voelske
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 21:27:26 GMT

greetings joerg.

looking for a typeface

From: susan fordyce
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:08:32 GMT

There is an Elsner+Flake digitization, but probably only as PostScript Type 1. -- Laurence

Installing a TTF in Win95

From: Juan Antonio Ramirez
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 19:56:07 GMT

It certainly could be the problem. Windows can typically have around 1000 fonts installed, but this can be reduced if they have long names. It's not a very helpful error message though, if so... -- Laurence

Editing TrueType In Illustrator 7.0

From: Elton
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 22:34:42 GMT

Greek fonts for Windows 95

From: Jim
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:09:54 GMT

True Type

From: Vladie
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:45:56 GMT

This is odd. Perhaps it is connected with Win 98's support for the Euro character, newly inserted into position 128 in the Windows (Western) character set. In fact it's a little bit more complicated: Windows 98 will refer to character 0x20AC in Unicode for the position 128 (and would find it empty in your font), whereas Windows 95 and 3.1 refer simply to 0x0080 (=128). If your custom transliteration font uses this slot, it might be the cause of the problem. Assuming this, the font really should have been encoded as a symbol font. I could re-encode it this way if you like, and it would then continue to work whatever Microsoft do to the standard "text" layout in the future. -- Laurence

Postscript

From: Keith Rogers
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:50:12 GMT

Probably FontLab does the best conversions. If you don't want to buy that software, then any competent digital typographer should have the tools to do it for you. -- Laurence

Fonts

From: Debbie Bennett
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 00:35:26 GMT

cross platform?

From: J Young
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 18:37:56 GMT

See the response to the Jul 27 question below. -- Laurence

printed samples

From: phil sheridan
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 22:06:34 GMT

Windows truetype on a mac?

From: Chris
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:50:06 GMT

Use the shareware Mac utility TTconverter. -- Laurence

help me!!!

From: Chang Ghang
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 21:30:24 -0700 (PDT)

Here is my code.

: static GLYPHMETRICS gm;
static DWORD bs;
static BITMAP * bd;
static MAT2 trans_mat2 = { {0, 1}, {0, 0}, {0, 0}, {0, 1} };

memset(&gm, 0, sizeof(gm));

bs = pDC->GetGlyphOutline('a', GGO_METRICS, &gm, 0, bd, &trans_mat2);
ASSERT(bs == 0); --> Assertion fail occured!!!
: --> That means the function call is failed.

Could you correct my code? Or show me the demo code? I use Windows 95 english version and Visual C++ 2.0 compiler. And my email address is greenbook@yahoo.com. Thank you.

It seems you're using a pointer ('bd') to the bitmap data, where you should be using NULL if all you want is the metrics. -- Laurence

win95 and lack of tahoma font on starting

From: darrin
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 18:57:37 GMT

Font search, Hoeffler

From: J.C. Block
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:38:56 GMT

I would recommend going to the Hoefler Type Foundry's site to find the latest status on PC versions. -- Laurence.

czech encoding

From: George Mikula
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 04:33:07 GMT

TTF file format details required

From: shripad
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:37:58 GMT

The TrueType file format can be found at several locations on the net. Start at the TrueType Specification area of this site and link to Apple or Microsoft's pages. It's difficult to know what you expect from a FNT to TTF conversion. FNTs are bitmaps; TTFs are outlines. What do you want to get? A good, smooth outline? An outline that stair-steps exactly around the bitmap letters? The bitmaps embedded in the TrueType file? All are possible and each requires different techniques. -- Laurence

Japanese, Cantonese, Korean

From: Jimmy Dunne
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:04:36 GMT

OS/2 System VIO Fonts under NT?

From: Stefan Jenni
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:02:12 GMT

Stefan Jenni

Bitmap conversion

From: Ahmad Zimit
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:02:48 GMT

You would do well to try out ScanFont from the FontLab people. -- Laurence

TrueType Equivalent

From: Craig
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 21:24:22 GMT

This misunderstanding comes up a lot. If you want a TrueType version of Optima, then you should order "Optima TrueType" direct from Linotype, who own the rights to the design. The fallacious notion that TrueType fonts are named differently from their PostScript equivalents is probably an unfortunate consequence of Microsoft's commercial link-up with Monotype. Thus that foundry's Book Antiqua and Arial became installed on far more computers than the fonts they were shamelessly aping - Linotype's Palatino and Helvetica respectively. Nowadays Microsoft treats Linotype with more respect. -- Laurence

AFM or TFM conversion

From: Mark Hewis
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:46:45 GMT

Is there a conversion process between True Type and these 2 formats

Thanks

I don't know of one. Note that AFM and TFM are metrics formats, not font formats. TrueType metrics are part of the main font file. You need to write a program to inspect the internals of the file, specifically the 'hmtx' table or the 'hdmx' table if there's an entry for the ppem size you're using. --Laurence

trouble usin font

From: monica
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 05:30:11 GMT

I'm afraid some fonts out there are full of bugs or lacking essential characters. Why not purchase a reliable alternative such as FF Dynamoe, where some of the cash you part with goes to the guy who created the thing? -- Laurence

FontMonster

From: Eric Firus
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:45:46 GMT

Enrico

Unfortunately, that's a known problem with FontMonster. It's a shame, since it was a useful little utility. And I believe the author has ruled out an upgrade due to derisory financial returns from the shareware concept. -- Laurence

Arts & Crafts Vintage Fonts

From: Brian Marconnet
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:24:20 GMT

I'm looking for fonts that correspond to the look and feel of the Arts and Crafts Movement of the early 20th Century. Can you help me?

Try Scriptorium. -- Laurence

Double spacing after a period.

From: Jerry Eisen
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:17:31 GMT

To my mind it never was a computer / typewriter discrepancy. The appearance of the final document should surely be the only matter of concern. And if most typewritten work was deemed to require two spaces, then surely all work typeset in a monospaced font should also require two spaces, whatever the technology (daisy-wheel, dot-matrix, computer screen, phototypesetting...) used to produce the work. But is it simply a matter of choosing either one or two, and letting the matter rest? Would 1.5 be ideal? Donald Knuth thought that 1 was too small, and 2 was too large, and used an intermediate value in his TeX computer typesetting system. And what about other factors? How about the positioning of the period character in its cell? If it's well over to the left of a rather wide cell (as it might be in a monospaced font), then maybe the space to the right can count for some of that spacing distance. I could go on, but I hope you see it's not a straightforward matter, but a matter of experience judged by a good typographic eye, and experience with particular fonts. Such well-trained eyes might have rules of thumb (and it so happens that most of us have standardized on a single space), but they will always be looking out for situations (an unusual font, an unusual document, etc.) where that rule might have to give way. -- Laurence

type 1 to ttf

From: Wilfrid
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:31:59 GMT

Use Fontographer 4 for the Mac. -- Laurence

French Canadian Fonts

From: John Kenna
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:44:46 GMT

There should be no problem using almost any TrueType font to typeset French. I'm unaware of any special requirements of Canadian French. Some cheap or free fonts might lack the accented characters, but if you purchase your fonts from reputable foundries they should come with all the characters needed. -- Laurence

True Type table editor

From: Josef Franek
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:07:27 GMT

Exact Win/Mac Compatibility

From: Jonathan Hoehn
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 18:37:25 GMT

However, we cannot find a font that is completely compatible on both platforms are far as fontsize, spacing, etc. goes. Whenever we convert our programs from the Mac side to the Windows side, the text is moved a couple of pixels to the left, right, up, down, etc. on the computer screen because of the discrepencies between how Mac/Win handles the fonts. This is unexceptable because the text has to fit in small graphical answer boxes and so has to convert perfectly from Mac to Windows.

Is there a simple, basic Truetype or Type 1 font with exactly the same spacing, length and width, etc. on both Mac and Windows that would fix this problem?

Thanks for your time,
Jonathan Hoehn
Graphic Technician
EPC/CNS/Davidson

truetype fonts look bad printed on a PS-printer

From: tracy
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 20:27:29 GMT

Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you,

Tracy

conversion

From: Heath Colwell
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:50:27 GMT

I am looking for software that will allow me to convert dxf numbers into a truetype font. Any help?

helvetica

From: Pat Wittorf
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:03:34 GMT

Helvetica is available from its creators, Linotype, in the TrueType format. However, the hinting (its appearance at small sizes) is not up to the standard set by Monotype's Arial. -- Laurence

Retrieving arabic glyphs in Win95

From: Jens Stutte
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:00:48 GMT

My question is: Is there another way to retrieve the characters outlines ? (It seems, that GetGlyphOutline accepts only Latin font coding...).

DOS library

From: Andrew Woodgate
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 15:26:40 GMT

TrueType Collection files (TTC) and Windows font names

From: Randy Frank
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:46:33 GMT

Thanks.

"Overline" - how to?

From: amir manasterski
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:27:27 GMT

Font viewer

From: David FIeld
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:42:10 GMT

Installing TTF Fonts for Win95/NT for use with Office 97

From: Julie Dossett
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:54:50 GMT

.ttf tables, and PDF's StemV value

From: John Bley
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 17:09:19 GMT

The value is not in TrueType fonts. You have to calculate it by analysis of, say, the cap I glyph. Don't worry too much about putting in a precise value: the value will only ever be used if the font is not present with the PDF file, when a vaguely similar font will be used instead. -- Laurence

How can I get the typeface name from file(*.ttf & *.ttc)

From: Bae, Chang Hyeon
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 00:52:47 GMT

The best way would be to query the Registry. But are you sure you need to access the file directly? If you simply need some data from a table in the file, use GetFontData. -- Laurence

arabic font

From: Schragi Schwartz
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:44:57 GMT

TTF specification

From: Yair Sarig
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 07:24:54 GMT

extracting splines on Mac

From: Michael Uhlik
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:49:46 GMT

Converting Raster to TrueType

From: John Mallon
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:34:11 GMT

The best program for your purposes is probably SCANFONT, from the FontLab people. -- Laurence

New TrueType Font Creation

From: John Mallon
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 16:58:27 GMT

Bosnian TrueType Font

From: Duncan Moffat
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 16:44:07 GMT

There are versions of Times New Roman, Arial, Courier and Verdana available for free from Microsoft Typography. They have all the characters necessary for Serbo-Croatian.in Latin and Cyrillic. Using fonts of this type, containing all the so-called WGL4 characters, is by far the best way of typesetting Eastern European languages (assuming you are running at least Windows 95). -- Laurence

download and uses of japanese and chinese true type font

From: Pierre MENU
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 08:00:37 GMT

Helvetica Black.ttf

From: Stan Bloxham
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 20:50:10 GMT

foreigh language fonts

From: Norris Armstrong
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 23:39:06 GMT

What does GetGlyphOutline return?

From: savas KOSE
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 04:44:46 GMT

GetGlyphOutline example...

From: savas
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:47:50 GMT

same font, differnt name

From: marc
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 19:13:08 GMT

This is perhaps a dubious thing to market, as it could encourage people to use pirated versions of typefaces. There is a PANOSE field in the TrueType format which could be used for font matching... but most cheapo or pirate fonts leave them zeroed. Ha! -- Laurence

Times New Roman with diacritical marks

From: William Glynn
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 09:43:54 GMT

There's a large version of TNR downloadable from Microsoft Typography. It has all the characters in the WGL4 set, meaning it can be used to typeset all major Latin, Greek and Cyrillic based scripts. -- Laurence

Arabic fonts

From: Jiri Holy
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:29:18 GMT

truetype and postscript

From: Yuko Suzuki
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 03:50:14 GMT

You'll find such comparisons sprinkled liberally throughout this site. As a start go TrueType and Type 1 fonts. -- Laurence

TrueType Specifications/Guides in Print?

From: Randy J. Ray
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 22:24:34 GMT

Font Creation "TTF Structure"

From: Jonjon Pascua
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 07:03:28 GMT

What font is best for software screen displays

From: Paul Kronmyer
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 19:45:18 GMT

You would be losing absolutely nothing, and gaining a lot. The TrueType format, when used to its full potential (as it is by Microsoft, Monotype, Font Bureau and Type Chimérique to name a few) excels at screen display. Type engineers have much greater control over the appearance of fonts at the small pixel heights used on screen, than they do with Type 1 and ATM. I would recommend checking out the fonts at Microsoft Typography (these are free), looking at the ESQ range from Monotype (these are inexpensive), and asking Font Bureau about which of their fonts are available as well-hinted TrueTypes (these may be more expensive). If none of these fonts completely meets your needs, you may like to commission Type Chimérique to add the special TrueType hinting instructions to the font of your choice. -- Laurence

CAD Geometry to TrueType

From: Ken Owens
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 15:39:35 GMT

Font Editor

From: Marko Haas
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 23:04:57 GMT

UNIX TrueType Fonts

From: John Jensen
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 20:08:58 GMT

convert true type win 95 font to mac?

From: Rob Schenk
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 18:08:18 GMT

i am trying to find a conversion utility that will convert a win95 true type font to mac true type. Do you know of any non-commercial products that will do this? i found one for mac to pc, just not the other way.

thanks!

True Type Open

From: 
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:46:59 GMT

Converting Chinese Fonts

From: Dong
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 07:26:29 GMT

slashed zero

From: Paul Smith
Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 00:06:46 GMT

Univers font?

From: Rita Yeazel
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 01:37:45 GMT

Truetype supporter programs

From: Pedro Lozano
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:59:48 GMT

Font design 101

From: Sambit Basu
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 07:00:27 GMT

Conversions...

From: Paul Hermans
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 13:05:59 GMT

CG Times

From: Wayne Hulls
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 23:16:42 GMT

Thanks

Screen Resolution

From: Heather Lafleur
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:53:51 GMT

True Type Construction

From: John Bromley
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 20:01:09 GMT

Arial and Times New Roman fonts

From: John E. Jones
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 19:39:28 GMT

Macintosh users can certainly use them without a problem. Anyone is free to download them for Windows and Mac from Microsoft Typography. -- Laurence

TrueKeys for CJK TrueType Fonts

From: Chung-Pang Lai
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 13:15:46 -0800

I noticed there is an unanswered question on your FAQ page concerning converting Chinese TTF files into Mac format. TTConvert fails to handle Chinese fonts.

I recently found some information related to the topic from the following page http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/info-mac/font/util/00util-abstract s.txt

#### BINHEX true-keys.hqx ****

From: xlz@Chem.LSA.umich.edu (Xiaolin Zhao)
Subject: TrueKeys for CJK TrueType Fonts

Many find that there are overwhelmingly large amount of Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) truetype fonts in the market designed only for PC. A lot of those fonts do not have multiplatform character mapping support and therefore can not be converted to Mac font. For people in Mainland China or Singapore where GB coded Chinese is official, they often find most of the available truetype Chinese fonts are in big5 encoding. For people in Japanese where Shift-JIS encoding is official in both MS-DOS, Windows and Mac, there is no net-savvy EUC encoding font support. A key to solve these problems is here now.

TrueKeys is a Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) 2-byte truetype font conversion utilities. What makes it different from other truetype conversion such as TTConvert 1.5 and TrueConvert 0.3b is that it generates its own cmap table for specified language encoding, and dissembles the original font to assemble the original glyph data into a new truetype.This strategy corrects some common PC font problems such as no Mac cmap table support, etc. When TTConvert or TrueConvert does not work for your font, you should seriously try TrueKeys.

System requirement:

Any mac with system 7+, and 8MB RAM required. The TrueKeys will need 1.3 times font size allocated to it for font rendering. For system where RAM is limited, please use virtual memory. For best performance, a PowerMac with system7.5/16MB RAM or above is recommended. TrueKeys is a FAT binaries distribution,i.e., it contains both 68K and PPC native codes to run on both type CPU.

TrueKeys Xiaolin Zhao, 1996.

Where can I buy TrueType fonts for my high-end, Windows NT, non-linear editing computer?

From: Matthew Sneddon
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 23:05:14 GMT

You are heaven sent. We have a Discreet Logic dual Pentium non-linear editing workstation with a WinNT operating system. The graphics program uses True Type fonts.

Can you tell me where I can purchase some more? So few people I call know what I'm talking about. I can't believe it.

Thanks for your help.
Matthew Sneddon
Executive Producer
KNME TV5
1130 University Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
matt@knme1.unm.edu
505-277-1232

Try any of the foundries on the TYPE*links page, and ask for TrueType fonts. -- Laurence

from header to graphic

From: hariadi
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 02:25:38 GMT

Unicode chart

From: Jesse Davis
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 20:52:25 GMT

TrueType on UNIX

From: Carl Rosenquist
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 14:10:48 GMT

I would very much appreciate any help you could provide.

Thanks,

Carl Rosenquist

I'm afraid it's quite likely you won't be able to use TrueType fonts in UNIX, as there's no system level support for them. -- Laurence

TTF Format

From: D De Pauw
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 18:38:19 GMT

I can't find a font

From: Martha
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 13:18:19 GMT

Using TrueType fonts in Printing

From: Michael Van Gorkom
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 20:10:26 GMT

I've heard of no reason why TrueType fonts would come out "jagged". -- Laurence

some true type fonts

From: anel 
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 23:54:30 GMT

FARFEL ICG

From: Jessica Needham
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:23:27 GMT

What is *.ttc?

From: Tin-Yau Fung
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 07:09:55 GMT

Some of the fonts on my NT system is of extension *.ttc Is there a way I can extract the individual *.ttf files out?

Thanks.

Disabling Hinting

From: John Valentine
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:11:09 GMT

You're in luck. Windows 95 looks at the 'gasp' table of a TrueType font to decide when to enable hinting and anti-aliasing (it assumes defaults if the table is absent), and there's a shareware editor for this table, TTFGASP. -- Laurence

NT Unicode

From: MN
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:58:13 GMT

Many console applications seems to only support the old 8bit DOS fonts (and displays different characters compared even with 8bit ISO Latin fonts used in Windows apps).

Sorry if my question maybe isn't as clear as I want.

Unable to (re)install fonts

From: John Van Slooten
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:25:49 GMT

Thanks in advance, John

TrueType caps height

From: Clarke Brunt
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:16:18 GMT

And I also tripped over the fact that GetFontData is documented as returning -1 on error, yet it's return value is DWORD, which is unsigned. So I didn't detect the error and got a totally random caps height. Is '(DWORD) -1' or similar a common construct in Windows programming?

It's certainly a shame that there's no standard place for cap height in the TrueType spec. All I can suggest is taking it directly from the bounding box of the cap I glyph. I know this is not perfect, since serif ends often go above the visual cap height and below the baseline, and swash caps would generally want the same cap heights as their sober relatives. Have you considered using sTypoAscender from the OS/2 table? On the other point, I think (DWORD)-1 is safe, but you could use (DWORD)(long)-1 to be safer. -- Laurence

vowel macrons

From: Daniel Zimmerman
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 07:49:00 GMT

Daniel Zimmerman
Assoc. Prof. of English
Middlesex County College
Edison, NJ

Win 3.x and Win 95 TTF Compatibility

From: Michael Sklanowsky
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:49:26 GMT

TTF without rounded edges

From: Rich Coutts
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:51:32 GMT

An interesting one... Although I can think of a few off the top of my head (ITC Machine, Emigre's bitmap-effect types) that appear to be composed only of straight lines, it's difficult to know whether they really have no curves or just look that way. Often in type design you see examples where, paradoxically, the designer, in order to achieve the effect of mathematical exactness, has subtly adjusted a feature to be incorrect mathematically. The crossbars of most H's are raised slightly above the centre, to make them look central. Perception is weird. -- Laurence

W95 TrueType Fonts To Apple

From: Trevor Aiston
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 08:50:14 GMT

How can I convert .ttf to .bez

From: Dave Halsall
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 15:54:06 GMT

I know there is an application out there to convert a .ttf to this type of font, as the only place that does it charges $$$ per conversion. I'm willing to pay for this app, but where can I get it?

dh

convert truetype macintosh

From: robert eriksson
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 09:59:40 GMT

Mathematical Truetype Fonts

From: Eddy van Eeuwijk
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 07:27:28 GMT

Thanks very much.

Eddy

Laurence? Is that you...?

From: David J. Reimer
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 15:32:47 -0700

I found your site today aften scrounging around Alta Vista and Yahoo looking for some kind of help on designing TT fonts. I have read through as much of the FAQ material as conscience will allow (I am at work!), and have posted a couple replies to people that I also cc'ed to you. I have a couple questions, too...

First, what is the .FON file, and is it necessary to have with to go with every .TTF file?

Second, is there a decent little (ha!) tutorial or guide or how-to on actally designing your own fonts? I have scoured the web, and not found anything quite like this, although the web is a big place to scour and no doubt I have missed lots! You have oooodles of useful information here, but I have in mind something more like a Noddy guide....

Third, you may notice that I sent someone information about a shareware package called Softy (sfty107a.zip at simtelnet/win3/font). It *seems* to do a decent job of font editing, but I know next to nothing about this. [My own interest stems from a long-time interest in font faces, going back to my first Apple //c word-processor which was based on type-setting analogies and included a font-design utility for the 9-pin dot-matrix Imagewriter!] I have no desire to rival Agfa or Monotype, etc., but I would like to try to produce a font to match the scribal hands of the Dead Sea Scrolls (I am a lecturer in Hebrew Bible here....). Think of it as a kind of hobby.... Anyway, what do *you* think of Softy? Is it worth a review on your website? And how does it compare to the font design software of your own (you hint at its existence at a few points in the FAQ material!)?

Anyway, enough ramble, and back to work. Thanks for such an informative and clearly laid out site. *Much* appreciated!

Your points, in order. 1) The FON files are bitmap fonts still used for some purposes in Windows. Although TrueType is always active in Windows 95, they're a useful fall-back if the TrueType system crashes and an error message can still be displayed. Some applications use the FON fonts, so they can't be deleted. You certainly don't need one with every TTF; however, Windows 3.1 created a small FOT data file every time a TTF was installed. 2) There's no "noddy" guide for a good reason: it would not help much in the design of good fonts. The user manuals tell you what to do technically. Aesthetically, it's a mainly matter of experience, intuition and imagination. However, Vincent Connare at Microsoft Typography is preparing an excellent guide to Character Design Standards, which - while far from being a prescriptive, or "noddy" guide - will help type designers know when they are deviating away from common practices. 3) I may post a review of Softy in the future. -- Laurence

Fonts cut off in WordPerfect

From: Asa Jay Laughton
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 17:39:56 GMT

Thanks, Asa Jay

Bitmap Editor 16 x 16 bit

From: Jonathan
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 08:35:51 GMT

Fonts

From: Jenny Mok
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 00:36:33 GMT

Jen :-)

True Type Hebrew Fonts

From: Ruthie Nussbaum
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 22:14:33 GMT

I need a correct maximum hight value

From: Mikael Ingwall
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:58:09 GMT

The 'head' table values should work. But sometimes the values are "fudged" in a desperate attempt to get a font working on some operating system. Try the TypoAscender (etc.) values from the 'OS/2' table. -- Laurence

SymbolFont 16 x 16 bit Font Editor

From: jonathan
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 08:11:17 GMT

PCLETTO vs PCLEO

From: Peter Holleman
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 08:53:57 GMT

Frutiger & Palatino

From: Rafa
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:14:33 GMT

Arabic Fonts

From: Mohammed Abu Sharikh
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 16:22:52 GMT

I am using the FreeType Library to write some modules for Web development. I have managed to use the fonts library for Latin text, however, I am trying to convert the code so that it handles Arabic text. I found out that unlike OpenType, truetype files don't have a gsub table. I basically need a substitution table for the Arabic TrueType fonts. Can anyone help please?

Thanx in advance,

Mohammed

converting TT fonts PC to Mac and the other way too

From: Ben Bensinger
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 21:43:30 GMT

We have True Type fonts in our PC but they won't work in the Macs. I have heard you sell a converter that works in the Mac. We would love to buy a copy. Please advise. Quickly would be nice. If you would prefer to call, 800 338 0225 ext 2438.

Fonts print different sizes on different printers

From: Ted Roth
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 16:22:53 GMT

Each line appears the same, the variation is in the height of the font. The document contains postscript graphics. The Qms must be specified so the graphics come in properly.

The Epson is the real target printer. Thanks for any help

Ted Roth
Horsham, PA USA

Installing TrueType Fonts Programmatically

From: William Steinford
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:12:30 GMT

True Type Fonts

From: Igor Kuralenok
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 06:50:37 GMT

D-TypePro

From: Dejan Kovacevic
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:52:44 GMT

true type on websites

From: ann
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:39:26 GMT

Office97

From: govind
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:46:52 GMT

True Type fonts in Linux using ghostscript

From: David
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:44:40 GMT

PCLETTO File

From: Takao Shudo
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 01:45:06 GMT

Point sizes

From: Andrew Wigdahl
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 20:59:10 GMT

Yes, it's fine. Of course, the device that the font is to be displayed upon needs sufficient resolution to make the font legible. Any typical screen, for example, would not have a chance. The most important parameter in the rasterization of TrueType fonts is the "ppem" (pixels per em), a measure of how many pixels the font must fit into, vertically. The measure is derived from the point size of the font and the dpi (dots per inch) of the device. When the ppem gets below about 8, the effects of hinting instructions, even those that work well at higher ppems, is unpredictable - so most fonts disable hinting below 8 or 9. Although it would be possible to hint glyphs below this size, it's not usually worth it. It's better to disable hinting and enable greyscaling (anti-aliasing), so that a reasonable representation of the type is used, albeit not necessarily legible. -- Laurence

TrueType fonts and PCL

From: Jef Duncan
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:06:31 GMT

Truetype version of the TERMINAL font

From: Eric Himmer
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 20:24:05 GMT

Softy website

From: Dave Emmett
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:21:39 GMT

How to make a True Type Font

From: Manvender Yadav
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:20:36 +0900

Are there any source code segments available for handling TTF?

Font Confusion

From: Michael Bryant
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:01:05 GMT

Problem: the same document prints differently from different machines. All machines have the TT font installed but it seems as though W95 is sometimes "seeing" a different font. By detective work comparing output from the one machine that _also_ has the HP printer-resident fonts in font drop-down menus (e.g.in Word) it seems as though it is using one of the resident font definitions (Garamond CE, I think). Spookily even the "test print" for the TT Garamond font itself comes out differently on different machines (although this is at least consistent).

Any ideas as to how to cure this problem? I guess it's something to do with the overt visibility of the printer resident fonts. The machine where they are visible in font menus seems to be able to differentiate. All thoughts welcome.

True Type

From: Karen J.
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 17:19:43 GMT

convert truetype to type 1

From: Dean Faklis
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:05:23 GMT

http://www.fontlab.com

From: Yuri Yarmola
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:33:53 GMT

FontLab DG site is now active. I control it, so I'll try to make it "live". I put "Hinting in FontLab" article there (actually - part of FL3 doc) and it seems to be "compatible" with your site, that's really excellent and includes a LOT of useful information. Just one comment - are you sure that FontLab 3 is "not TrueType-native"? :-) ParaType people prefer to hint TT fonts with FL, not with VTT or TypeMan...

All the best!

P.S. Note my new e-mail address. Old one works, but this is better.

Fontmonger

From: Joyce Cruzat
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 07:14:46 GMT

Copyright

From: Neville Chen
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 04:26:08 GMT

Can the typefaces be used on a sign used in a stage play?

Converting several Post Script Fonts to tt.

From: Rujin
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 17:24:34 GMT

Conflict

From: G. Smith
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 13:43:01 GMT

Thank you.

Frutiger 55

From: Jan Grlsted
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 14:29:46 GMT

most legible font

From: Gerald van Wyck
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 00:42:11 GMT

Convert Type 1 to TrueType

From: Sungho Im
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:29:40 GMT

I interest in font.

I want to know the defference between type 1 and TrueType font.

So I hope to compare them with same font for test

I have a Type 1 font, but I can not convert it to a TruType font.

Could you convert Type 1 to TrueType if I send a Type 1 font to you ?

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

Sungho Im.

Font Table Editor

From: Jeff Stringer
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 22:48:45 GMT

Highway font

From: Mark Stein
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:50:47 GMT

You could plead your case with the designer, Tobias Frère-Jones at Font Bureau. -- Laurence

Katakana

From: Ratbat
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:36:22 GMT

symbol centering

From: Nick Zhukov
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 09:20:47 GMT

I have the following problem. I need to draw a symbol from a given true type font centered both vertically and horizontally around given point. To do it I guess I need the extents of symbol outline and its position in the font cell. I try to use GetGlyphOutline with GGO_METRICS but each time it returns GDI_ERROR. Do you know the way to solve this problem?

Sincerely,

Nick Zhukov

Embedding bitmaps into TrueType

From: Boris Geistrm
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 10:53:30 GMT

TIA Boris

fonts not available (office 95 and older)

From: M. Tchou
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:05:59 GMT

Unablle to download fonts

From: phil cross
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:30:49 GMT

TTF to line drawing.. help..

From: Ahmet AKIN
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:15:31 GMT

Garamond

From: Howard Blackwell
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:36:36 GMT

Help!

ttf's ?

From: nick
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 09:35:26 GMT

t.i.a. N.

True Type Fonts

From: Linda
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 23:30:58 GMT

Thanks!

Linda

Moving a Font into Pub97

From: Cheri
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 02:55:39 GMT

You don't move it directly into Publisher's font list. In Windows, ever since the early days of Windows, applications (such as Publisher and Word) have access to all the fonts that are installed in the system as a whole. Since you're running the "97" version of MS Publisher, you'll be using Windows 95, not 3.1. Font installation is a simple matter in 95: just open the folder (or disk drive) with the font to be installed; then open the Windows/Fonts folder; now drag the font to the Fonts folder. Publisher will then show the new font in its list. -- Laurence

macintosh logo type

From: Arthur
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:16:02 GMT

Windows 95 and Windows 3.x TrueType Font

From: james
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:43:27 GMT

What's is the different between TrueType for Win 3.x and Win 95 ??

Please help.

Thanks a lot.

TOOLS link

From: HWB
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 04:13:43 GMT

It would be useful if links to the "TOOLS" pages could be more obvious ...on the front page perhaps.

end MSG

Display Chinese Font In Win 3.x

From: KL Chin
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:00:48 GMT

times new roman

From: connie
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 21:10:09 GMT

Small Typface

From: Trevor Aiston
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 22:21:16 GMT

TrueType between platforms

From: Jessica Graalfs
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:21:18 GMT

Garamond

From: Malin Dandenell
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:32:44 GMT

Welcome to the history of typography, Malin! Claude Garamond was a 16th century type designer, who designed several typefaces in different sizes, many of which have been used as models for more recent interpretations. Stempel Garamond and Adobe Garamond are based on these. To confuse matters, until early this century the type designs of Jean Jannon were also attributed to Garamond. The "Garamond" types of Monotype, ATF, Simoncini and ITC are of such origins, but the names aren't going to be changed now. -- Laurence

TrueType for dos

From: Geoff Moyle
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:08:16 GMT

japanese fonts

From: Jim Yen
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:52:36 GMT

please tell me where to get Japanese TTF fonts.

Thanks

Main web Page

From: Arthur Lee
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 01:38:53 -0800

Arthur Lee

litagures and truetype

From: Duncan Simpson
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:25:48 GMT

Fractions

From: John Bohnenstiehl
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 16:16:14 GMT

Replacement for MSLINEDRAW

From: Dieter
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:28:16 GMT

Thank you

True Type hinting interpreter

From: Stuart Combes
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:08:49 GMT

1) Can IF[] statements be nested ?

2) JROT[], JROF[] etc POP a ULONG but use a SIGNED offset - how is the ULONG converted?

3) WCVTP[] : the ordering of the location and value on the stack differ in the text and the picture : which should be popped first?

4) ISECT[] : "if lines are parallel, the point is put in the middle" - how is middle defined? Is the diagram right?

Many thanks

Stuart

How to generate fonts by WGL4

From: Klaudio Pap
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:21:16 GMT

Fontographer is not a good option for generating large WGL4 fonts. Try FontLab instead.

conversion ttf -> pfb

From: Andrea Battistella
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:57:14 GMT

thanks in andvance

andrea battistella

Care Label

From: Rainer Geisler
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 16:25:42 GMT

If you don't know it directly, I would be very thankful for any hint!

Best regards
Rainer Geisler

transfer

From: tyler
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 18:38:42 GMT

postscript font into a mac truetype font.

thanks.

tyler

Fontographer seems to be the standard method. -- Laurence

How to create or modify any TrueType Font?

From: Sabir Younis Salki
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:09:11 GMT

Me is in need to find out a shareware programme with which I could create or modify any truetype font?

Does anyone know? I am dead sure about it's existance and will be much obliged for pointing out that site/source.

Salki

NT 4.0 Workstation

From: Kare Krupala
Date: 17 January 1998 23:31

Has anyone solution ?

font monster

From: Mike Foster
Date: 08 January 1998 02:04

FontMonster is still around on many shareware archives, but the author has not been contactable for some time. Thus, perhaps it's going against the shareware concept if there's no way of remunerating him... -- Laurence

font list

From: Jane Krainin
Date: 07 January 1998 18:46

do you know where???

There are lots of these, Jane... in book form (the best graphics format). Try Rookledge's TypeFinder, the FontBook, and others. -- Laurence

UNIX

From: Ilon Joseph
Date: 02 January 1998 16:09

You may want to check out what the FreeType folks are doing. There will probably be a public domain TrueType system for Unix and X Windows before long. However, support in applications (e.g. POV) is another matter. -- Laurence