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Using Free Fonts
Wendy, in answer to your question on using on-line fonts...
Legally, no one can copyright 'the alphabet', only the 'name' of the font. Anything you find on the 'free sites' is fair game to anyone that wants to use it. However, you want to test the fonts and make sure they work! I've downloaded over 10,000 fonts and purchased a couple CD's to make a total of 13,000+ on my computer. Comes in handy when you have to 'match' a font for a logo. My biggest problem is that a lot of the 'nifty' fonts for free do not have an 'outline' or vector path-so I can't convert them to path or outline.
So go ahead and use whatever fonts you find-just don't get sucked into paying a 'fee' to join a 'group' just to use free fonts. Plenty of completely fee free font sites.
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Permalink Reply by CYW on -
Roland, I'm totally confused by what you said.
What fonts have you found that can't be converted to curves? I can't get my head wrapped around that, makes no sense to me.
Are you talkig about single line fonts for engraving maybe?
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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on -
Besides the Versacamm SP300V, I have an Allen Datagraph 30" cutter for 'regular' vinyl. ANYthing you want to cut has to be converted to vector lines-including fonts. I do the majority of my artwork in Macromedia Freehand 10, and using the font command 'convert' you find out instantly if the font is corrupted or not. And occasionally I have run into fonts I used for artwork for the Versacamm that 'default' to a common font like Chicago when I try to print them. So I have to go back to the artwork and try to convert the font to lineart/vector line there. If it's a corrupt font, I then have to try to find a good font as close to that as I can.
I also do engraving-again, that works complely in vector line-but the engraving program has it's own 1300 fonts that are already converted to work as single line, outline, or multi-line for engraving.
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Permalink Reply by CYW on
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oh, I get it now...........you're talking about corrupt files.
I don't think I understood that initially.
ALL fonts can be converted to curves. There shouldn't be any exceptons, at least I've never seen one.
Dealing with incomplete or bad files, fonts or not, is a totally separate issue.
thanks for the clarification
Lady Di
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Permalink Reply by Lorri Schmidt on
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Anyone know where I could get a Free distressed font?? I haven't found one yet.
Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Wendy on -
did you check dafont.com? They have a lot that are called " distressed" but I'm not sure they will be the kind you're looking for.
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Permalink Reply by Butch on
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Lorri - great video at corel tips.com for creating your own distressed effect.
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Permalink Reply by CYW on
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Wendy every font file or every font site should have useage guidelines.
There is no one-size-fits-all.
Liscensing agreements are all over the map.
Since you're talking about dafont here, if you look to the right side, right above the download link, you will see what restrictions are put in place.
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Permalink Reply by Kathy MacMannis on -
Roland, just curious where or how do you store your fonts? I have about 700 fonts installed and I was told that over 500 really slows down the computer, and at times when Im in corel trying to choose a font it's painful how long it takes.
thanks,
Kathy Mac
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Permalink Reply by CYW on
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Not Roland.......but why aren't you using Font Navigator, Kath?
It's old, been around forever, but it comes free with Corel and it works just fine
I have more fonts than you could imagine and have been using FN forever
It's a simple drag/drop font management program
It will print your font catalog if you want or you can even make folders if you want
You can set up Corel to install and uninstall fonts on the fly
If its on your computer, you won't get that annoying font substitute warning
Di
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Permalink Reply by Kathy MacMannis on
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hmmmmmmm well don't I feel like a big dummy! Totally forgot about that free program!! It must be because I'm in such deep depression that the patriots lost that it has wiped out that portion of my brain. Thanks again friend!!
Kath
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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on
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I've been using Suitcase Fusion for years-I have about 500 fonts open and 13,400+ in a folder on my hard drive. I'm running a MacMini with 2 gigs of storage, and have a storage drive that holds all my customer artwork, clip art CD's, etc. and that's 200 gig of storage-I think I'm only using about 70 gig so far.
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