TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Mon Apr 15 05:27:26 EDT 2024
FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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TransType
A commercial PC and Mac program by Yuri Yarmola, the FontLab developer, that allows conversion between Mac and PC formats for type 1 and/or truetype fonts. Free 3-day demo version. Download page. Originally it was for the Mac only (" It does automatic or manual reencoding of fonts when necessary. - It automatically creates font suitcases on Mac and font metric files on PC. - When Type 1 fonts are converted from PC to Mac, TransType can use ATM to generate bitmap fonts. - TransType can work in batch mode, doing any type of conversion in the same operation. - All Mac-specific user interface features are supported, including drag-drop of files and folders and balloon help.") Should be about 100USD. Don Hosek says that TransType (for the Mac) "can't handle extended families of fonts (which is nearly everything I (=Don Hosek) have). As long as you stick to the basic regular/italic/bold/bold-italic it's fine. Personally I prefer the no-longer-available FontHopper." A very positive review by Chris MacGregor. TransType2, released in 2002, can also convert multiple master fonts and even create instances of multiple master fonts. In December 2003, we will get TransType Pro, which can convert to and from OpenType format with all the other supported formats: Type 1, TrueType, multiple master, and VFB (FontLab's internal format). In addition, it will have a Python scripting interface. |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |