We finally made the OS9 to OSX switch, need help...

[Doombrain]

just pay the money and stop using quark, like everyone else is.

[codey-]

Didnt realize fonts wont transfer, bastards. No way will we pay $249 for a suitcase worth of a certain font we USED to own already.

I use a whole bunch of fonts from OS9 - don't understand your prob...

Also, any idea why old quark express docs arent recognized at all by 6.5?

... ahh - here's the reason for your woes; QE on OSX is ... (let me be nice here) ... not working that well. In fact InDesign is much better at opening old QE files. And handle OS9 fonts. I'm not saying that every OS9 font I got work, but those causing problems are mostly odd shareware ones.

cheers

[Doombrain]

He's talking about quark fonts he paid for 8945907345987349058 years ago.

forget about quark and come to the light, the adobe light.

[Doombrain]

Me too.

[codey-]

I just open them in Font Book.

cheers

[Canis]

Interesting...so Font Book can convert fonts?

[codey-]

Huh? I had pretty large collection of fonts (started back in OS 7 days) when I moved over to OSX Jaguar - a few of them will not open in Font Book, and most of those were behaving badly in OS9 as well. The rest just works fine for me, no conversion or anything - Font Book just installs them for me and I use them as before. I tested right now - no problems opening either a old postscript font by loading it's bitmap file (.bmap) or a jokefont I made myself long ago in Fontographer and saved as a TrueType. All this in 10.3.8.

cheers

[SplishSplash]

http://www.1001fonts.com

and the myriad of other free fonts sites?

[4g3nt_Smith]

Many commercial fonts are available on one or more of those free font sites, you'd just have to look.

[S@M]

nevermind, its probably worth the money rather than teh time

[JB]

try searching for your font on http://www.dafont.com

[S@M]

lols JB,
gotcha!!

did you catch the date of Riddla's last post?