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Re: Illustrator FAQ or Why doesn't Illstr show all my fonts?
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Posted by John Dowdell on December 05, 1996 at 19:37:49:
In Reply to: Illustrator FAQ or Why doesn't Illstr show all my fonts? posted by dev on December 05, 1996 at 16:10:29:
Most likely cause is that Illustrator is not showing your TrueType fonts, Dev. If you check, is it only showing Adobe Type 1 fonts for you there?
This stretches into the mists of prehistory a bit, but if memory serves then the current version of ILL/Win predates TrueType fonts. I know that TT fonts came to the Mac with System 7 towards 1991-2, and that was about the time that Win3.1 shipped, which was about the time that the current version of Illustrator shipped. I lost my ILL/Win manuals in the last move and can't be sure, but doesn't ILL 4.1/Win work just with Type 1 fonts?
If so, and if you have the full FreeHand Graphics Studio 7, then you also have Macromedia Fontographer. This lets you turn TrueType fonts to Type 1 fonts. (I presume that you'll be legal on a single machine.) This should be a way to use all your fonts in Illustrator.
Of course, you'd probably be better off staying in FreeHand, but hey.... ;-)
(If I'm off-base in the above chain of suppositions, then somebody please correct me... thanks!)
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Tech Support
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