tgreyz — Tue, 04 May 2004 02:58:48 +0000

If you didn't notice on myfonts.com textile is made by apple, often times apple does not make pc friendly anything. So most likely you will not be able to find the textile font for a pc. However you may want to use your mac or a friends mac and have them type what you need into adobe illustrator and convert type to outlines. That way it will create an image out of the type. Hope this helps, good luck.

tomaine2002 — Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:27:45 +0000

I think the PC font "comic" looks a lot like the font used in the logo

taff — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:29:08 +0000

Greg K wrote: As a quick fix for just a few chracters (ie to recreate a logo already in use), you could use the "Test Drive" section of hte myfonts.com site. Although their drop down limits you to a size of 72, in the URL you can manually change the size (ie. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/apple/textile/textile/testdrive.html?s=Hello&p=200 ) Depending on chracters and size, you may have to merge one or two images together.

-Greg

I actually thought of this and played with it a bit - doesn't leave you much leeway in terms of image quality though.

Suzanne wrote: *raises hand as mac owner running Illustrator ostensibly with Textile installed*

Heh, I'm keeping this one in mind

The big problem is that I'd like to use the font for page headings also - perhaps navigation although I doubt it. Although it would be simple enough to sub out their creation, I'm reluctant to get into a situation where I can't do my own tweaking and revisions down the road - not to mention the fact that I didn't budget for any subcontracting in the design fee

Suzanne — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:44:34 +0000

*raises hand as mac owner running Illustrator ostensibly with Textile installed*

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:36:33 +0000

Greg K wrote: One other alternative I forgot to mention earlier: Ask someone who has a mac and that font installed to type in the words you need and save it out in a vector based file, telling it to convert text to curves. Then you don't need the actual font installed, you are working with the curves that make the font.

That sounds like a better solution.

Greg K — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:29:17 +0000

Well I wouldn't use it on a regular basis or for any type of original work... Myself, I prefer to completely rebuild logo's and such from scratch in a vector based program such as Corel Draw. Takes time, but to me it's my form of entertainment.

One other alternative I forgot to mention earlier: Ask someone who has a mac and that font installed to type in the words you need and save it out in a vector based file, telling it to convert text to curves. Then you don't need the actual font installed, you are working with the curves that make the font.

As for the legal aspect, font files can (and I think most do) have copyright ownerships. Just like everything else like stock photos, clipart (yuck), etc, they should all be used per license.

-Greg

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:03:16 +0000

Sneaky. But is it permitted/legal?

Greg K — Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:53:42 +0000

As a quick fix for just a few chracters (ie to recreate a logo already in use), you could use the "Test Drive" section of hte myfonts.com site. Although their drop down limits you to a size of 72, in the URL you can manually change the size (ie. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/apple/textile/textile/testdrive.html?s=Hello&p=200 ) Depending on chracters and size, you may have to merge one or two images together.

-Greg

Suzanne — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:33:07 +0000

my goodness. only if you buy a mac? lol... okay.

taff — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:20:23 +0000

I have seen Mac fonts for PC on occasion, Helvetica and the like, but I think that they are converted over to a Windows format on a font by font basis. All I got when I tried to buy Textile though myfonts.com (which is where I identified it) was the following:

http://www.myfonts.com/PurchaseOptions?familyid=1742&id[]=3325

Thanks for trying though.