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[lowcarbgirl]

Okay I just noticed when I downloaded the Ravie Font - it won't work in SCAL because it is an Open Font Not a TT font.

[wreed06]

Okay I just noticed when I downloaded the Ravie Font - it won't work in SCAL because it is an Open Font Not a TT font.

Which link did you use to download?

[lowcarbgirl]

This is the link I used and even though it shows it as a TT font - after I unzip it and load it it says it is a O font.

http://www.fontica.com/font/ravie

I will go and try your other sites and see if they are the same.

[lowcarbgirl]

Okay I tried all of the links that are posted - one says I have to pay for it and the other three all come out as being an O font.

[wreed06]

Strange, I had no trouble at all. Here's a zip file of what I downloaded.

[lowcarbgirl]

I just downloaded your file - when I unzip it - it is also an O font not TTfont.

I dont' understand - when you open your SCAL can you see that font. I can't.

[wreed06]

I don't understand what you mean by it being an "O" file. What operating system are you using? I'm using Windows XP Pro. If you're using Mac or Vista, maybe that's the problem. How do you unzip it?

[GrammyKrausse]

I think there is more then one kind of font. ttf's and there is O type. My vista will read both but I think I read somewhere that Scal works with ttf's. I might be wrong.
Grammy

[lowcarbgirl]

I am running Window XP.....

There are several types of fonts "O" TypeFonts are Open Type Fonts. I found this to explain what Open Type fonts are:

Quote:
OpenType® is a new cross-platform font file format developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft. Adobe has converted the entire Adobe Type Library into this format and now offers thousands of OpenType fonts.

The two main benefits of the OpenType format are its cross-platform compatibility (the same font file works on Macintosh and Windows computers), and its ability to support widely expanded character sets and layout features, which provide richer linguistic support and advanced typographic control.

Then there are "TT" Fonts.... or True Type Fonts.

I found this regarding TT fonts:

Quote:
TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. The primary strength of TrueType was originally that it offered font developers a high degree of control over precisely how their fonts are displayed, right down to particular pixels, at various font heights. (With widely varying rendering technologies in use today, pixel-level control is no longer certain.)

There are also "A" Fonts. I have several of these that were preprogramed in my computer when I got it. I have no idea what the "A" is for.

Out of these fonts, my SCAL, only reads the TT fonts.

[wreed06]

Thanks for sharing that lowcarbgirl. But something still puzzles me, the downloads I posted come up as TTFs for me. Why would the exact same font file come up as type O for someone else? Very odd.