Dazzler Fan Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 + Does anyone have "Swindon Normal" TTF for the Apple? I believe it originated with Macromedia, who are now defunct. Noel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
K14 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 2001? where did the years go? It actually originated with me. I used Illustrator for the outlines & then an already ancient & moribund version of Fontographer to generate both TrueType and Postscript Type-1 font files as that covered all the bases back then. I've converted the TTF into the newer OpenType (OTF) format, which might work. A cursory web search suggests that recent Mac OS's use a different format, so if the OTF doesn't work you could try running the TTF file through TT Converter - http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7388/ttconverter New OTF version:— https://www.dropbox.com/s/1hcxvx2cpdm7yqy/Swindon.otf?dl=0 The original TTF version is here:— https://www.dropbox.com/s/dubdohrq99q4xbs/Swindon.ttf?dl=0 I've also dug out the zip file that contains the Type-1 *.afm, *.inf, *.pfm & *.pfb files if that's of any use:— https://www.dropbox.com/s/dyxjgxtunwc3kaf/T1_Swindon.zip?dl=0 CAVEAT: It's not suitable for either headings or body text as the kerning (letter to letter spacing) is all over the place. It was never my intention to create a font for this purpose, but purely as a quick 'n' dirty way of getting the letterforms onto a curved path in either Photoshop or Illustrator where they could then be tweaked around to suit. They ought to work with Inkscape or Gimp too. Pete S. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Just to add that OTF fonts work fine on Mac OS X. OTF support introduced back at version 10.4. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler Fan Posted October 27, 2015 Author Share Posted October 27, 2015 + Pete, It's amazing who one can meet on this Forum.Thank you. I meant to only cite Macromedia as the source and not necessarily the author. We have TT Converter and I don't know yet if it worked. Spacing will not be a problem for my application.Thank you again. Regards Noel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
K14 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 No probs Noel. Fontographer was originally produced by a company called Altsys - really old TTFs show 'Altsys Fontographer' in their metadata. They got bought out by Macromedia, who in turn were swallowed whole by Adobe so that the latter could get their hands on Flash & Dreamweaver. As far as I can tell, pretty much all other Macromedia products got binned; not that they were interested in updating Fontographer anyway - the version I have looks suspiciously like it was ported for Windows 3.1! It's now been updated by Fontlab & will set you back a mere US$399. Ouch. Just did a check against my original artwork & it works out that the uppercase at 380 points equals the full size of 3-3/8" across the face. The lower case needs to be 476 pt. Slinn quotes 3-1/2" in GW Way, but that's taken across the back & there's a very slight bevel to allow the castings to leave the mould freely. If you want 3.5", then it's 496pt lower & 396 upper. For some reason the numbers need to be set to 666 points (oo-er Mrs.) to get the stated 5-3/4" — 553pt for 5-5/8" assuming they have a similar bevel to the letters (& I'm not sure they do). No idea about the cause of the disparity between numbers & letters- might be a 'feature' of the original program. I did a few GW fonts back then (mostly for wagons, but also the Hawksworth one) thinking it'd be a shortcut for signwriting artwork. These days I just copy 'n' paste my letterforms into a new Illustrator document, print 'em out and use those to mark out for signwriting. Much easier & far more versatile. Fonts are odd things. P. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzler Fan Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 + Pete, I too have the Slinn book, 2nd Print 1968I am sure there are many on here, who will appreciate your fund of information. Thank you Noel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 ... Fonts are odd things. ... Understatement of the year. Good luck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCuckoo Posted November 19, 2015 Share Posted November 19, 2015 Works on El Capitan - cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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