Re: [WinMac] Cross Platform fonts
Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:45:15 -0700 (PDT)
[In the matter of a TrueType Helvetica font for Windows...]
Changhsu P Liu suggested:
> You can copy a lot of fonts from umich ftp accessible from:
> <ftp://mirrors.aol.com/mir01/MICH/mac/system.extensions/font/truetype/>.
> You need TT Converter to convert them to Windows fonts
> <ftp://mirrors.aol.com/mir01/MICH/mac/util/font/ttconverter1.5.cpt.hqx>.
>
> If you want to use your existing fonts. Use TT Converter to convert your
> Mac TrueType (Helvetica included in Mac system) to PC version. If you need
> to convert Type 1 or Type 3 fonts to PC, you may need to buy Fontographer
> from Macromedia.
i recommended this too, a few weeks ago. Heh. But i have to
confess, when i actually _tried_ the TT Converter software, i got
some weird results. In Windows, spaces showed up as squares. And
in MS Excel 97 for Windows, the spacing for the font did _not_
match up when viewing the same file in Excel 98 for Mac. (The file
formats between 97 and 98 are compatible.) This also happened when i
used the old commercial Metmorphosis Pro.
We were looking at maybe downloading Arial for all the Macs, but we
have more Macs than Windows machines, and the Helvetica for Windows
fix would've been perfect. Only... it's not. :{
(Arial for Mac is available as part of Microsoft's free web fonts.
You can get them at:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm)
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