So, a customer bought a font family for a project I'm working on and sent it to me. It was compressed with a .sit extension. On my PC I unstuffed it, but didn't find the normal PFB and AMF files for each font. Only the AFM's and the others are .bmap. I tried changing the .bmap's to the PFB's but that didn't work either. Any ideas? The font family is Farnham.
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Post Script Font Help Needed
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The Vector Doctor
Chief Bezier Manipulator
Usually SIT files are associated with the Mac operating system. SIT is Stuffits' equivalent of a ZIP file. Open Type and Truetype are cross platform fonts, in other words you can use them on either a Mac or PC. Postscript fonts are not, they are platform specific
A postscript file is usually made up of 3 parts, only 2 of which are necessary. PFB, PFM, and AFM. The AFM file is not required. So if the font is in fact a Mac font then that is the reason you cannot use it on your PC. There are commercial and freeware programs out there that allow you to convert PC postcript fonts to Mac postscript and vice versa.
Do a google search for a full detailed explanation and to maybe find the proper software to make it work for you.
A postscript file is usually made up of 3 parts, only 2 of which are necessary. PFB, PFM, and AFM. The AFM file is not required. So if the font is in fact a Mac font then that is the reason you cannot use it on your PC. There are commercial and freeware programs out there that allow you to convert PC postcript fonts to Mac postscript and vice versa.
Do a google search for a full detailed explanation and to maybe find the proper software to make it work for you.
A friend found a program called CrossFont (runs on the PC) that seems to do the trick. The trial version was able to convert the files to Opentype, which worked. I didn't see an option to convert to TTF.
Instead of extracting the .sit file, CrossFont is able to look inside the archive and convert the fonts to a separate folder.
Instead of extracting the .sit file, CrossFont is able to look inside the archive and convert the fonts to a separate folder.