I'm looking to finally buy a sign-making software program, and only have limited knowledge from messing around with other folk's programs.
I like Software "A" for it's intuitiveness and ease of use. It has a decent selection of fonts. However, a friend has Software "B," and I saw its font chart hanging up in his shop. It has a gorgeous calligraphic Arthur Baker-type Roman (not Baker Signet - can't recall the name right now), which I would get a lot of use out of.
Now, if I were to buy Software "A", is it possible to get that Baker Roman from *somewhere* - a font disc, the internet, etc. - and import or download it into Software "A?" I have no idea how this works. Is it possible???
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Peter, Go to my computer/control panel/fonts on his computer and copy the font you want to your computers same location. He can e-mail it to you very simply.... It should then be drawn up by any program on you computer......Warning, installing to many fonts will stall a computer. Rule of thumb, 300 or less, 200 or less on older machines. Jack
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Jack is right but it also depends on what type of font it is. Most fonts I have seen are true type. The file extension is .ttf There are also Adobe fonts and so on. We use GA and Omega quite a bit. To add a font I copy and paste it in my font file and then use the Gerber font converter to convert it to a useable font for our software. As Jack said, don't load to many or it will slow your system way down.
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Digital Typesets (aka fonts) can be broken into three basic classifications- not the descriptions of the font itself, but of the protocol used to encapsulate the font).
1. TrueType for Windows – This is the Windows native font format. Normally, sign making applications which run under Windows are able to access this class of fonts, up to the Windows limits- which depending on the version of Windows that you’re using, is between 800-1000 fonts at a time.
2. Adobe Type 1 Fonts – These are fonts which will require an add-on program to manage the fonts in most versions of Windows. This add-on program, called Adobe Type Manager (ATM) is required in all versions of Windows previous to Windows 2000 or XP. Once ATM is properly installed, most sign programs will be able to access these fonts as well. Win 2000/ XP support Adobe Type 1 fonts without ATM.
3. The third class of font is the proprietary fonts used for years by Gerber, Signlab, CASmate, etc. Normally, this class of fonts is only accessible by the program that provides the font.
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