Where could I find a font editor for Mac Intel? I wish to add a few extra customized characters to a font. Apple Font Studio, Linotype Font Explorer, did not help, FontForge, Potrace do not install, and Font Lab Studio is too expensive. Failing that, is there any way to import a Windows TrueType font into a Macintosh and use it under Mac OS?
Font editor needed
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Natobasso
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Here's a font editing option:
http://www.macworld.com/2006/07/reviews/fontstudio5/index.php
You can use pc TT fonts on a mac:
http://www.macdisk.com/fontsen.php3#TTPC
The quote from this macdisk page relevant to your question:
"How to use True Type PC Fonts on a Mac Running OS X?
Since Mac OS X is a flavor of Unix, one could expect that this would be the end of the fonts stored in the resource fork. Indeed, for some time, it was already possible to put PC fonts (True Type as well as Type 1) in the font folder of some Adobe applications, like Illustrator and InDesign. The drawback was that the fonts were only visible for those applications, and not from all other.
To use those fonts with all applications under Mac OS X, put them in the <Mac Volume>/Library/Fonts folder if you are an administrator or <user>/Library/Fonts folder if you are a plain user. This doesn't work with Type 1 fonts."
http://www.macworld.com/2006/07/reviews/fontstudio5/index.php
You can use pc TT fonts on a mac:
http://www.macdisk.com/fontsen.php3#TTPC
The quote from this macdisk page relevant to your question:
"How to use True Type PC Fonts on a Mac Running OS X?
Since Mac OS X is a flavor of Unix, one could expect that this would be the end of the fonts stored in the resource fork. Indeed, for some time, it was already possible to put PC fonts (True Type as well as Type 1) in the font folder of some Adobe applications, like Illustrator and InDesign. The drawback was that the fonts were only visible for those applications, and not from all other.
To use those fonts with all applications under Mac OS X, put them in the <Mac Volume>/Library/Fonts folder if you are an administrator or <user>/Library/Fonts folder if you are a plain user. This doesn't work with Type 1 fonts."