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Porting
Fonts Across Platforms:
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Porting PC Type 1 Fonts To The Mac®
With Mac Fontographer®
To find out more about Fontographer and where to
get it, click
here
10. When you generate font files, you
will need to specify bitmap sizes for Mac screen fonts.
Click Element > Bitmap Info... to access the
bitmap information dialog.
11. The default bitmap sizes for Mac screen
fonts are 12 and 24 points. Just click "OK"
to accept these defaults.
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Note:
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12. Click File > Generate Font Files...
to generate the actual font.
13. For this tutorial select the "Easy"
method (circled below). Then choose "Macintosh®"
for the computer and "PostScript®
Type 1" as the format. Verify your bitmap sizes
chosen in a previous step then select a folder to output
the font. Click "Generate" when done.
14. Optionally, click File > Save
to save the Fontographer database. The converted font
files will appear on your drive (below left). You can
install them by copying them to the Fonts folder in
the Macintosh System folder.
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Mac Type 1 Font
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Fontographer database
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Click
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