Alternatively, you can search for the font in the Font Book application and right-click the font and select “Reveal in Finder”. Next, select the destination folder and click “ Convert “. You will now see a bunch of font files in your destination folder. Keep the one with the.ttf extension and delete the rest. Click on FONTS icon In the menu, select FILE, INSTALL NEW FONTS; Select folder, where you have all these unpacked font files - C: RUSFONTS. There is a button on the right - SELECT ALL. Click on it Click on OK button Windows 3.1, 3.11: In Windows 3.1, you have such group (window) as MAIN.
Introduction
From version 4, our Macdisk offers certain features whichmay help you transferring font files betsween Macintosh and PC. When it detectsthat you are copying a font file (in both directions), it asks whether you wantto convert the file or to do a raw copy.
The most common situation for transferring a font from a platform to the otheris when a customer ordered a special font, which was only delivered for the PC(or the Mac).
If you are migrating, you may also want to preserve your investments in fonts.
See also a good link to the T1 vs. TT war.
See also How to Use TT PC Fonts Under Mac OS X?
Why is Transferring Fonts Problematic?
Transferring fonts between Macintosh and PC rises two kind of problems. First,the file format is not exactly the same (in particular for T1 fonts). This meansthat some kind of conversion must occur.
Secondly, on the Macintosh, fonts are stored in the resourcefork of the file. When files are transferred through a network, or by email, youoften get therefore an empty file, the data fork.
Transferring fonts between Macintosh and PC must be done using real Macintosh media(HFS volumes) or 'Macintosh-like' media (MS-DOS volumeshandled by File Exchange on a Macintosh, NTFS volumeshandled on a NT Server with SFM, ISO 9660 CD-ROM withApple Extensions). MacDisk manages all those data media.
Before Going On
The information we give you on this page is aimed at using a Macintosh font ona PC or a PC font on a Macintosh. It goes without saying (or maybe we should sayit anyway) that the technical feasibility doesn't mean that you are allowed todo it. You have to respect the rights of the authors and distributors (they mayvary, depending on the country you live in). Please read your license agreementbefore proceeding.
In some countries, fonts are protected as computer programs (what they are, in acertain sense). In some others, only their names can be trademarked. We don'tknow all possible configurations. Anyway, don't negate the rights of the personsor companies who created the fonts you want to use on your computer.
Macintosh Fonts Signatures
The binary file of Postscript fonts (corresponding to the PFB file on the PC) isidentified by the signature 'LWFN'. The signature of Macintosh True Type fonts is'tfil'. There is also a display font whose signature is 'ffil'. This file isuseless on the PC.
If you get a file whose signature is 'FFIL', this is a font suitcase, containingseveral display fonts or several True Type fonts. MacDisk will check anddisplay an error message if it can't find a font in the file.
Under Mac OS X, the new .dfont fonts don't have a signature, as the .ttf files,which are plain copies of fonts as used on the PC.
Open Type Fonts
Open Type font files are binary compatible betwen both platforms. Therefore,no conversion is needed. On the Macintosh, users may be surprised by the fact thatthe files may have a generic icon and not the usual one. This fact can be explained,most of the time, by the transfer mode used to carry the files between platforms.Some of the tools available on the internet may ignore the correct signature('sfnt' for the type and 'ATMC' for the creator).
Transferring Macintosh True Type Fonts to the PC
True Type fonts, contained in single-font files or in font suitcases, are copied to the PC in individual TTF files. Those files can then be installed in the usual way (that is through the Fonts item of the Control Panel or with a font management tool like Adobe Type Manager).
Bitmap fonts and True Type fonts appear both in suitcases. On the Macintosh, the bitmap fonts are displayed with an icon bearing a sigle A. True Type fonts use an icon bearing three As. When a Macintosh medium is opened on the PC in one of our programs, you can't make the difference between both kinds of files.
In this case, MacDisk displays an error message saying that it could not find font resources in the file. Please note that it often happens that Macintosh users only put the bitmap fonts on the media.
Since True Type font files contain all the elements needed to display and print the text, this feature is really powerful and should not bring any problems.
True Type Versions
We also observed that some font suitcases (in particular the Helvetica suitcase, containing both the regular and the bold font), when converted by MacDisk, don't give files that are correctly recognized by Windows as True Type files. On the other hand, Adobe Type Manager correctly identifies the files and even displays the correct fontname, even if the file has another name. Nevertheless, ATM refuses to display the sample display and complains that the file format is incorrect.
The solution, in this case, is to try to open the file in a font editor. We use TypeTool by FontLab (see below). From the editor, save the font to another file. The editor will save the file with a more conforming structure, which should allow the installation in Windows and ATM.
.dfont Fonts
Under Mac OS X, fonts must not be stored in the resource fork. Some fonts are stored in so-called '.dfont' files, using this extension. The contents of such files is exactly the ressource fork of older fonts, but stored this time in the data fork.
Please note that those files (like .ttf fonts) don't have a signature. If you need to transfer such fonts to the PC with MacDisk, first swap both forks (in the Expert menu) to put the font back in the resource fork, change the signature to 'tfil????', then copy the file to the PC. MacDisk will identify the font as usual and convert it.
Transferring PC True Type Fonts to the Macintosh
In the other direction, the PC True Type fonts (TTF extension) are copied toindividual files. We create a 'FOND' resource (to identify the font family) foreach of those files. We don't manage yet the font families in a single file. Onthe Macintosh, all font files should have a font id number. As we attribute aindependent number to each of the fonts, you could encounter problems with thelinks between separate fonts (like bold, light, etc.).
Transferring Macintosh Type 1 Fonts to the PC
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To be available in your program, Postscript fonts, be it on the Macintosh oron the PC, must be installed through a font management tool like ATM (the engineis included in the OS under Windows 2000). ATM must access both PFB and PFM files,or PFB, ATM and INF files.
Our programs identify the Type 1 fonts (Postscript fonts), whose file typestring is LWFN (the creator string vary). If you choose to convert the font, webuild a PFB file (Printer Font Binary) from the data stored in the resourcefork of the Macintosh file.
Afterwards, to install the font on the PC with ATM (Adobe Type Manager),you'll also need a PFM file (Printer Font Metrics). Both files should bearthe same name.
PFM File
It is not easy to build a PFM file directly from the PFB file. We have to do someguessing and use as base a generic PFM file that we adapt to the real font you'retransferring. In the tests we made, we had good results with most classical fonts.
But the user should be aware that there are several problems associated to thismethod. If you try to reuse a layout where everything was very tight, you couldexperience text reflow or other similar difficulties.
Since the PFM file is used only to display the characters on the screen, theresult you get when printing should be the same as the original. If you have toedit the file, you will have to work without controlling the result on screen,and will have to print frequently to know precisely what you are doing.
Versions 6.2: We discovered that version 6.2 has a problem and buildsincorrect PFM files. If you need to convert Mac T1 fonts to PC, check that theresulting PFM is correct and, if not, ask for an upgrade. On the distributionCD-ROM, you can also choose to install version 6.1.2, which doesn't show thisbug. This problem is solved in version 6.5.
How to Get Better PFM Files
However, it is possible to get real and good PBM files.Adobe Web site proposes many useful resourcesyou can download for free. The first problem when seeking for a PFM file isknowing its real name. You can download a reference file5090.FontNameList.pdf).This document is about 100 pages long. It lists all Windows and Macintosh fontnames with the filenames used (of the form XYZ_____.PFB).
On the same FTP site, there aretwo subfolders, one names ' mac ', the other ' win ', withthe ATM and INF files. All those files are also on the Type on Call CD-ROM.Just search for the filename found in the font list or ask Windows to do the jobof searching within the file for the Postcript name of the font. Files copiedfrom CD-ROM are read-only and ATM doesn't see such files. Don't forget to turnthe read-only bit off.
Transferring PC Type 1 Fonts to the Macintosh
This function is not yet implemented. We plan to integrate the feature withnext version. The transfer to the Macintosh format brings a lot of difficultieswe'll have to solve in the mean time.
Macintosh Fonts Transferred as Attached Files (Email Attachments)
See the page we publish on decoding Macintosh emailattachments. We propose on this site our MacMailutility to manage those attached files easily.
Macdisk
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Other Interesting Tools
Fontographer
Author:
Publisher: Macromedia
Web Site: Macromedia
TT Converter
This little converter for True Type font converts from Macintosh True Type fonts to PC ones, and conversely. To be found on some fora of Compuserve and probably elsewhere.
Author: Chris Reed
Address: 3409 Clearview Drive, San Angelo TX 76904-8108
Registration fee: US $ 10.
Tools for the PC
Refont/WRefont
Shareware (Wrefont is the software you get when you register). Converts TrueType from the Macintosh format to the PC format. Converts Type 1 LWFN files toPFB files and builds PFM files from scratch or from ATM files. A new version,CrossFont, was launched recently.
Author: Paul Thomson
Publisher: Acute Systems.
Address: PO Box 37, Algonquin, IL 60102.
CIS ID:70461,2542
Registration fee: 20 $.
Web site: Acute Systems
Fontographer
Author:
Publisher: Macromedia
Web Site: Macromedia
How to use True Type PC Fonts on a Mac Running OS X?
Since Mac OS X is a flavor of Unix, one could expect that this would be the endof the fonts stored in the resource fork. Indeed, for some time, it was alreadypossible to put PC fonts (True Type as well as Type 1) in the font folder ofsome Adobe applications, like Illustrator and InDesign. The drawback was thatthe fonts were only visible for those applications, and not from all other.
To use those fonts with all applications under Mac OS X, put them in the <MacVolume>/Library/Fonts folder if you are an administrator or<user>/Library/Fonts folder if you are a plain user. This doesn't workwith Type 1 fonts.
Mac OS X and Font Numbers
One user of our MacDisk had created a TT font on the PCand had used MacDisk to convert it to a Macintosh TT file. It worked fine. Thisuser had then the idea to install directly the PC version under Mac OS X, on thesame computer, by copying the PC file. The problem is that both files were notrecognized as being the same font.
The solution we found was to take the Macintosh medium where MacDisk had convertedthe original font, to switch the forks (to put the resource fork contents inthe data fork), then to rename the file with a '.dfont' extension (this extensionmeaning that the font is stored in the data fork, thence the 'd') and to copy thefile in Mac OS X font folder.
This way, both files were recognized as storing the same font.
True Type vs. Type 1?
A lot was written about respective advantages of Type 1 vs. True Type fonts.With good quality fonts, this is most hype. One must say that there are morecrappy fonts in the True Type format than in the Type 1 format.
Looking for some websites to download fonts? Want some more elegant fonts for your new project? Always in need of new fonts? If so, then you are at the right place.
If you are a graphics, web designer etc. then you may need different fonts for your several projects. Though the software come with pre-installed fonts, they are not sufficient. You need to download the latest fonts for creating a more appealing piece.
There are many websites that offer a great collection of fonts. But most of them are paid services. DaFont is also a great website which offers a good catalog of fonts to download but you get all the fonts free of cost. Here is everything you need to know about DaFont.
DaFont is an online platform which offers fonts to download for free of cots. You get thousands of fonts available on DaFont. The first thing which I liked about DaFont is its ease of use. You can search and download desired fonts without any hassle. Also, DaFont doesn’t add any fake or third-party links, you get direct link to the fonts.
There are about 30,000+ fonts available on DaFont and the best thing, they all are free to download. You get several ways to search for the fonts at DaFont. You can browse the fonts y their categories or sub-categories. DaFont also enables you to find the fonts alphabetically. DaFont keeps updating its database to provide more beautiful fonts free of cost to its visitors.
What’s more? You can download the fonts with one click. It provides the direct link to download the fonts. Click the download button and the font will start downloading. Also, the size of the font file is usually small that it takes a few seconds to download. It is also very easy to integrate the fonts in your software. After downloading, you can open the file and install it directly. The process is pretty simple but I have still explained the steps in the later sections of this article.
Easy Steps To Download & Use Fonts From DaFont
I. Visit DaFont
Downloading and using fonts from DaFont is quite easy. You can download any font in no time from this website and use it in any software. Simply follow the below steps and get fonts for all your needs.
DaFont is an online font providing tool which means you don’t need to install any software on your system. So, visit Dafont site and proceed to the next step.
II. Search The Desired Font
The next step is to search for fonts. You may need different fonts based on what you are designing or your job. DaFont offers several ways to search fonts. DaFont has divided all of its fonts into several categories. You can find dozens of categories on DaFont. The little box as shown in the below image contains all the font categories provided by DaFont. Each category also has subcategories. Like the Script category has several subcategories including Calligraphy, school, handwritten, brush, Graffiti, etc. So, you can find fonts in these sub-categories. If you want something creative and fancy, you can find it under the Fancy category of fonts. This way, you can find the Foreign look, techno, bitmap, basic, fancy, Dingbats, Holiday fonts, etc.
There is an other way too for finding the fonts. DaFont provides you a list of fonts that you can browse by alphabetic letters. There is the list of all the alphabets given as shown in the below image. When you click on any alphabet, DaFont shows you a complete list of fonts starting with that letter. This feature is helpful when you are looking for a specific font and know its name.
This way, you can find thousands of fonts on DaFont. DaFont also updates it’s stock regularly.
III. Preview the Font Before Downloading
Once you find the desired font, it’s time to preview it. Another great thing about DaFont is that it doesn’t require you to install the fonts to try it. You can simply try the font directly on the DaFont’s website. DaFont lets you try the font before you download it so that you can check if it suits your needs or not. It offers you several options like size, sample text, variants etc. It also lets you know whether you can use the font for personal use or for commercial purpose.
Honestly, I preview hundreds of fonts before finding the right one. This feature is helpful.
IV. Download & Install Font
Now, the next step is to download the font from DaFont. You need to click the download button and it will take only a few seconds to download. The font file is downloaded in zip format.
Extract the zip file and you will get a font installation file in it. Double-click the file and click the Install button. That’s all you need to do.
The font will be installed successfully and you would be able to use it on any software, Here I downloaded the Calling heart font. And you can see that this font is now listed in Microsoft paint. This way, it would be available in the other software too.
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So, you see how easy it is to download fonts from DaFont. I love this site and it is always my first option whenever I need to download some new font. Thousands of fonts available on DaFont makes it a one-stop solution for people. Have you ever tried downloading fonts from DaFont? Share your experience with us.