![]() ![]() ![]() Holding them forever until you have no idea where they came from or why you have them? Not so productive. Typefaces should always be job specific and if a special one is needed, purchase it on the client’s invoice. Those few special ones, hold onto those and offload the rest. Most of them are worthless and will always be worthless. People collect fonts like baseball cards. If you don’t recognize some of them, delete them. If you can’t live without some of them, update them. I’m sure somewhere in their font management software there is an option to select by software type. It’s all those people with thousands-of-fonts collections that are complaining. They’ll still be the same old Type 1 fonts but in a new wrapper. Doing so won’t magically expand the character set, increase the quality, or make OpenType features appear. It’s probably worth mentioning that converting the Type 1 fonts to OpenType or TrueType will only make them compatible with newer software. Mostly, though, I use the same dozen or so typefaces repeatedly, so I don’t need them anyway. ![]() I suppose they’d still be helpful for particular purposes, like type to accompany a logo, but that’s about it. Somewhere, tucked away in a drawer in my house, are some old Zip drive cartridges with thousands of those Type 1 fonts that I probably would have no way of retrieving even if I wanted to. No one thought anything at all of making copies of everything. The newspaper where I worked bought the entire collection of Linotype and Bitstream fonts. A help file would be a great addition though.Most anyone working with digital fonts since the 1980s (like me) probably has a whole collection of Type 1 fonts from the time when they were new and when nobody paid much attention to software licensing. Overall however, TransType SE does what it says with the help of a clean look and minimum configuration options. On Windows 7 for example, the app seems to slow down the system a little bit every once in a while, while also freezing at various intervals. TransType SE completes the conversion process in no time, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's light on hardware resources. It's highly recommended to have a look in the settings menu as well, as you can configure font file naming, formats, general conversion options, but also set up each supported format. TransType SE works with Mac Binary and BinHex files, which use the BIN, MACBIN and HQX extensions, TrueType fonts with TTF and TTC extensions, Type1 fonts with PFB and FontLab fonts delivered in VFB format. Of course, a preview screen gives you a hint into how your fonts could look like, while a separate legend panel is placed at the bottom of the window. There are dedicated panels for source and destination file or resources, both of them showing the family and the font name. The interface is extremely clean and intuitive and that's probably the reason why the developer hasn't included a help file in the package, as beginners should have no problem in figuring out how to use the app. TransType SE is a simple application designed to convert fonts from one format to another, providing support for popular formats such as TrueType and FontLab. ![]()
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