Re: Specific Headline Typefaces

Hello Susan!

At 10:45 AM 14/01/01 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm working an a site where a specific typeface has
>been requested for headlines -- Mona Lisa Recut (ITC
>fonts).  I've found several sites where it's available
>for purchase -- Eyewire and Adobe.
>
>Can anyone share their thoughts or experiences on
>this?  Are there freeware typefaces or is this
>normally a purchased item?  Once you have the font,
>what type of file or extension is it?  I'm working on
>a PC with Windows ME (millinium edition) operating
>system.  Do I take the font and place it in my
>c:\windows\font subdirectory or is it placed in the
>individual software  I'm using, such as Fireworks,
>Photoshop, Flash or Freelance.

First thing, I don't know if the font is available freeware but it's a good=
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idea to buy the font so you can get the whole font family (bold, italic,=20
etc).  Freeware fonts are often incomplete. To install it you go to your=20
font folder in Windows Explorer and open it.  Then go to File>Install New=20
Font and select the font you downloaded.  It should be a True Type font and=
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have the .ttf extension.  Once it's installed there it will be available to=
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all your apps.

>To have the exact typeface displayed, I'm planning to
>create the headlines as images.  The person I'm doing
>this for uses Netscape 3.0 as the browser because it's
>run on an older Macintosh.

That shouldn't cause any problem.

>Also, how do you normally share copy and / or other
>graphics when developing a site when one person is
>using a PC and the other person is using a MacIntosh?
>The software she uses is Illustrator and Quark.
>Whenever I receive files attached to an email, there
>is no file extension.

You shouldn't have a problem opening Mac created Illustrator files in=20
Illustrator for Windows.  FreeHand should will them as well as long as they=
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are saved in Illustrator 8.0 format and below if you have FreeHand 9 of=20
course. For FreeHand versions earlier than 9 she'll have to save in=20
Illustrator 7.0 or earlier.  Photoshop will also open Illustrator files but=
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will rasterize them.  It will ask you for a resolution and other details.=20
Choose a pretty high resolution.  You can down sample it later.  I don't=20
think you'll be able to open Quark files without Quark installed on your=20
machine though.  As for the extensions not showing up, I think your client=
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could zip up the files before sending them (using Stuffit) and the Windows=
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version of Stuffit Expander is free=20
(http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/).  I'm not sure this will solve the=20
problem but I think I read that it would somewhere...

HTH!

St=E9phane Bergeron

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