If you can find either typeface in TrueType or Postscript, it's a simple process to import ALL the data and then tweak/replace the "printer font" Bitmaps so that they match the original "screen fonts" in the "bitmap font suitcase," IIRC. I've been using Fontographer, the very first "Illustration Program" since it ran on the Fat Mac. Madison Avenue used it for designing Corporate Logos, Laser Printer Letterheads and all sort of Corporate Identity Packaging.
Historical side note:
When Adobe realized how Fontographer was being used in the Graphic Arts/Advertising communities, they turned their in-house font creation code into Adobe Illustrator. The little company that could, Altsys, turned the Fontographer code into "Aldus Freehand," because Production/Distribution of their niche product called for corporate big guns in order to compete with Adobe. Altsys was founded by NYMUG alumni, who moved their successful startup down to Plano, TX. The Macromedia buyout must have been a really nice payday for that NYMUG visionary!
I was using Fontographer to do logo design/digitization for my MacSignMaker System on the SE/4/20/Radius16 and then the IIx/Rocket33 for several years. The MacSignMaker guys created a Type 3 Font Import Utility that translated any five outlines making up each character in a Type 3 Font into scalable quality polylines for output on the industry standard CAD/CAM vinyl cutters of that era.
I had the pleasure of having about a 10 month jump on every sign shop in the country, not to mention having the Big Apple and Madison Avenue as my marketplace, when it came to cutting vinyl etc. from PostScript files. It took that long for a, much less precise, Image Editor and PostScript interpreter from the industry "leaders" to be released. I laughed all the way to the bank for quite a spell back then! [
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Another amazing achievement of the gang from Altsys was the creation of Metamorphosis a program that used the PostScript Language to query the LaserWriter's RIP for every bit of data included in any Type 3 or Type 1 Font, rendering Adobe's vaunted "Font Protection Algorithms" moot. Soon thereafter Adobe dropped their flawed "copyright" protection scheme entirely.
The article I linked is somewhat in error, Metamorphosis queried Fonts loaded into the CPU/RIP of the Laserwriter, no HDD necessary!
. . . just found a Wikepedia Article about Fontographer to confirm my story!
I wonder if FontLab would honor my ancient 2.0, 3.0 & Freehand Graphics Studio's 4.1 Fontographer Licenses for a FOG 5.0 OS-X upgrade? :lol:
Info on font conversions: http://tidbits.com/static/html/TidBITS-066.html
edit: TrueType Glossary
Historical side note:
When Adobe realized how Fontographer was being used in the Graphic Arts/Advertising communities, they turned their in-house font creation code into Adobe Illustrator. The little company that could, Altsys, turned the Fontographer code into "Aldus Freehand," because Production/Distribution of their niche product called for corporate big guns in order to compete with Adobe. Altsys was founded by NYMUG alumni, who moved their successful startup down to Plano, TX. The Macromedia buyout must have been a really nice payday for that NYMUG visionary!
I was using Fontographer to do logo design/digitization for my MacSignMaker System on the SE/4/20/Radius16 and then the IIx/Rocket33 for several years. The MacSignMaker guys created a Type 3 Font Import Utility that translated any five outlines making up each character in a Type 3 Font into scalable quality polylines for output on the industry standard CAD/CAM vinyl cutters of that era.
I had the pleasure of having about a 10 month jump on every sign shop in the country, not to mention having the Big Apple and Madison Avenue as my marketplace, when it came to cutting vinyl etc. from PostScript files. It took that long for a, much less precise, Image Editor and PostScript interpreter from the industry "leaders" to be released. I laughed all the way to the bank for quite a spell back then! [
] ]'>Another amazing achievement of the gang from Altsys was the creation of Metamorphosis a program that used the PostScript Language to query the LaserWriter's RIP for every bit of data included in any Type 3 or Type 1 Font, rendering Adobe's vaunted "Font Protection Algorithms" moot. Soon thereafter Adobe dropped their flawed "copyright" protection scheme entirely.
The article I linked is somewhat in error, Metamorphosis queried Fonts loaded into the CPU/RIP of the Laserwriter, no HDD necessary!
. . . just found a Wikepedia Article about Fontographer to confirm my story!
I wonder if FontLab would honor my ancient 2.0, 3.0 & Freehand Graphics Studio's 4.1 Fontographer Licenses for a FOG 5.0 OS-X upgrade? :lol:
Info on font conversions: http://tidbits.com/static/html/TidBITS-066.html
edit: TrueType Glossary