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Location: GA USA | I've had moderate success making fonts before. I've never done it on a large scale. But I'm please to announce the Ovation Fan Font v1.0
Layout is as follows. I may add to it later:
Here is the zip file containing the Mac Type 1 font AND the PC Truetype version.
ovationfanfont.zip
Consider yourselves the test subjects. If anyone at Ovation minds me doing this, then I had nothing to do with it.
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Location: south east Michigan | How cool is that????
Thanks Captain! |
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Location: GA USA | Oh, I wanted to mention that the character for "2", the rosette leaf, will generate the rosette design when typed on a circular path... neat, huh? |
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Location: New York, NY | That's awesome! But how do I get it to work? I downloaded it (I'm a Mac user) and then opened Word but it doesn't come up on my font options menu... |
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Location: south east Michigan | I use windows. I'm also trying to figure out how to get it into my font selection. |
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Location: GA USA | vcnyls, for Mac, you should be using a font utility such as ATM or Suitcase. How to add it depends on what operating system you use. If you have a new OS-X Mac, try using Font Book (in the Applications folder) If you're not sure, search in the help menu.
Brad, I'm not a Windows user, but I tested it on a windows machine and it worked for me. I just dragged the font into the Fonts folder (In Control Panels), then launched Word and it was there. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Capt! Great job. Thanks! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | There are two other fonts, one is the arabesque and the other is the stencil. Arabesque is my fav. It's similar to the Applause font.
previous font discussion |
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Location: south east Michigan | Got it...
Thanks again |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Did I mention it was awesome? I want to put a link to the Ovation website on my own site, and this will REALLY dress it up (I'd like to post a link to this site, too, but that might be too dangerous)! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Did I say thank you? What nice work! If this is a moderate success, I'd like to see what you do when you REALLY get down to business! Thanks again. |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by Slipkid:
I use windows. I'm also trying to figure out how to get it into my font selection. It might be as simple as saving the font file in the directory where all your other fonts are stored. That's how we share fonts around here. |
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Location: Illinois | Cap'n, how do you 'create' fonts. Everyonce in a while I get a bug to create a unique font for a particular purpose, but haven't the vaguest idea how to go about it. Care to share? |
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by TommyK:
Cap'n, how do you 'create' fonts. Okay, but you're not gonna like it. I do it on my OLD (OS-9) Mac, since I've had these programs forever, but I suppose a font creation program can be easily found for any platform.
First, I create a piece of vector art for the character. Since most of these images are raster art (jpeg), I have to convert them to paths. I do this with an old (1997) program called Adobe Streamline. But you can create paths with Photoshop, Illustrator or even Flash, I think. I get them as close to the desired state that I can in Photoshop and save it as bitmap format. Then I use Streamline to convert it to paths, and export it to Illustrator as an EPS file to fine tune it. In illustrator, I use the pathfinder "minus front" plugin to make sure it's one object, and not different objects stacked on top of each other.
To create the font, I use an even older (1996) frogram called Fontographer. I import the EPS file to each key that I want to use, and then generate font files in whatever format. The main reason I have Fontographer is so I can convert PC fonts for the Mac.
Having said all that, I'd bet any program you could but nowadays would be quick and easy by comparison. |
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Location: Illinois | create then.. export.. vectored... OS9, PS....
>blink< >blink< :eek: :confused:
Well, I've gone from not having the vaguest idea to having a vague idea. Thanks, oh Captain, my captain! Suffice it to say I've figured out that I'd better leave it to the pros. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | originally posted by Captain Lovehandles:
Okay, but you're not gonna like it. I do it on my OLD (OS-9) Mac, since I've had these programs forever, but I suppose a font creation program can be easily found for any platform.
First, I create a piece of vector art for the character. Since most of these images are raster art (jpeg), I have to convert them to paths. I do this with an old (1997) program called Adobe Streamline. But you can create paths with Photoshop, Illustrator or even Flash, I think. I get them as close to the desired state that I can in Photoshop and save it as bitmap format. Then I use Streamline to convert it to paths, and export it to Illustrator as an EPS file to fine tune it. In illustrator, I use the pathfinder "minus front" plugin to make sure it's one object, and not different objects stacked on top of each other.
To create the font, I use an even older (1996) frogram called Fontographer. I import the EPS file to each key that I want to use, and then generate font files in whatever format. The main reason I have Fontographer is so I can convert PC fonts for the Mac.
:confused: Huh????????? |
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Location: NJ | Y'had me all the way up to the last paragraph, as I'd never really "used" Fontographer . . .
I used to an even OLDER program called CASmate, which was made by a company called ScanVec(now ScanVec/Amiable). CASmate was basically a CAS (ComputerAidedSignmaking) program, but it did the absolute BEST raster-to-vector conversion/editing, bar NONE!!
We originally got it in '91, and I'd kept it on every machine that I'd had here (even when I wasn't doing CAS-production anymore). It was that good. It lasted all way up thru WindowsNT. At Win2000, it wouldn't work anymore, and it would've involved an upgrade that the "suits" wouldn't recognize/pay for . . .
If y'research ScanVec/Amiable, I'll bet you could find a stand-alone scanning/conversion/vector-editing package. For "those functions", it pisses all over Streamline/Illustrator. |
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | originally posted by Cliff:
Y'had me all the way up to the last paragraph, as I'd never really "used" Fontographer . . .
I used to an even OLDER program called CASmate, which was made by a company called ScanVec(now ScanVec/Amiable). CASmate was basically a CAS (ComputerAidedSignmaking) program, but it did the absolute BEST raster-to-vector conversion/editing, bar NONE!!
We originally got it in '91, and I'd kept it on every machine that I'd had here (even when I wasn't doing CAS-production anymore). It was that good. It lasted all way up thru WindowsNT. At Win2000, it wouldn't work anymore, and it would've involved an upgrade that the "suits" wouldn't recognize/pay for . . .
If y'research ScanVec/Amiable, I'll bet you could find a stand-alone scanning/conversion/vector-editing package. For "those functions", it pisses all over Streamline/Illustrator.
:eek: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: NJ | My life was A LOT easier when all that I worked with was a brush . . .
(It's amazing how the technology needed to produce "CaveDrawings" has advanced over the years) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I ain't learned much of anything new on the 'puter since my buddy the programmer insisted I had to learn COBOL and BASIC (with FORTRAN as an option) or I would not even be able to keep my job in the new Computer (t'wasn't even Digital yet) Age.
Then he got a degree in Finance, because all the computer programs ever needed would be done before 1995 and his area of speciality would no longer exist.
He's actually done well, considering how consistently wrong he is. But all I can do, still, is type. |
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Location: New York, NY | Capt: I do use OS-X on my Mac and I put the font in Font Book, but it's still not coming up as an option on Microsoft Word... Is there something else I need to do?
Thanks,
JT |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | You save it in the font place in the window directory.
PS Make the arabesque and stencil fonts for us old timers! |
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Location: GA USA | In OS-X, I manage my fonts with Suitcase. Maybe try the help menu? |
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Location: New York, NY | Got it working. I had to put the file in the "fonts" folder for Microsoft Office.
This is so cool! I added the logo from your fonts to my take on the "Look Familiar..." posting (amp in the foreground). Here it is...
Cheers,
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Location: New York, NY | Consider this my open invitation to all of you to print, or have printed, copies for your personal use. If anyone takes me up on this, let me know cause I'd like one too.
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Location: Townsville, Australia | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
vcnyls, for Mac, you should be using a font utility such as ATM or Suitcase. How to add it depends on what operating system you use. If you have a new OS-X Mac, try using Font Book (in the Applications folder) If you're not sure, search in the help menu.
Easy peasy, don't you just love Mac's and thanks. |
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