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jackc4ss
12-11-2007, 08:39 AM
Hi,

I have got a PC and I have received some fonts from another designer however they are all in I presume Mac format.

I have tried (free) software to convert but have had no luck...

Does anyone have a conversion program that could help me out? I have an entire typeface (Din) to convert. A very nice font.

Anyway thanks.
Jacob
PrintDriver
12-11-2007, 11:01 AM
Buy it? Or are you working on a piece started by another designer that requires the exact font?
jackc4ss
12-11-2007, 11:34 AM
Started earlier by the designer, she gave me all the fonts however she was using a mac not pc so they dont load on my computer.

I am no longer in contact with ther either.
Virgo Nightingale
12-11-2007, 01:50 PM
Try finding different font converter software? A google search will turn up many. ;) They won't necessarily be free, but sometimes you have to cough up the bucks for software that actually works.
PrintDriver
12-11-2007, 01:53 PM
Might be cheaper to buy the font.
Virgo Nightingale
12-11-2007, 02:27 PM
Depending on how many weights needed, that just might be the case. And then you also get to keep the font and use it for other projects without a guilty conscience...
jackc4ss
12-12-2007, 12:04 AM
Thanks everyone. I have contacted a studio up here and they have just sent me the whole family.

Thanks heaps anyway. :)
PrintDriver
12-12-2007, 12:06 AM
Yeah, and violates the font license that studio agreed to when they bought it.
Nice.
jackc4ss
12-12-2007, 12:12 AM
Yes I know but I already had the font paid for through the design of the other item (in this case, a website) - fonts were provided with the design as part of the contract. The problem came when I tried to use the fonts two years down the line to make amendments to the website.
PrintDriver
12-12-2007, 12:15 AM
Just remember it next time someone doesn't pay you. Font artists eat too.
jackc4ss
12-12-2007, 12:22 AM
Yes I know but I already had the font paid for through the design of the other item (in this case, a website) - fonts were provided with the design as part of the contract. The problem came when I tried to use the fonts two years down the line to make amendments to the website.
monstruo
01-08-2008, 07:10 AM
You need to convert the files, LWFN, etc.... on a mac machine using a mac binary convert into a bin file. Without the conversion, the pc will not be able to recognise the file at all.

Next, use a program like transtype or anything similar to convert the bin file to a truetype or any pc recognised font file.

The macbinary program is easily available online, just google it.