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 Sorry Neogray, didn't mean to avoid any suggestions.. it's just that I have illustrator that I use for conversions and I don't think I need anymore software I want to work with what I have.
Yes Kat, Font Creator is my main application.. The only one I have figured out most of the options for. FontLab uses scripting and OTF coding for kerning and stuff and I don't know how I'm supposed to use it unless I somehow learn how to add the coding. With fontcreator it can take days to important vectors to fonts - the way the process is it's just very slow. The larger or more complex the bitmap you important the higher the quality, larger the size of it is.
I use pen and paper, illustrator and photoshop to create my fonts though. Fontlab allows extremely easy importing of vector shapes - it's almost instant where as fontlab takes about 3-10 minutes depending on the size and detail.
I have various grunge fonts out though, some are 100kb, some are 200kb, some are 300kb, the larger ones are the ones I wanted to have better quality grains and textures.
The best advice I've learned from this thread is to simply avoid doing too much detail and adding too much of these textures because I now realize font files really shouldn't be that big because they're loaded on many applications. One load to the wrong app can crash someone's computer, I know I've crashed my computer using other people's fonts.
I think St. Andrew is the least of my problems when it comes to optimization though but I do appreciate the feedback on it and I learned about optimization which will help in the future but my original question was about making it work on Mac and I think Neogray did help with that conversion as far as I know, I am hoping the file works on Mac but when they sent the link for it they had only mentioned they converted it to optimize and lower the filesize.
There are many spray paint fonts, if you do remove grains and textures from it it will lose it's quality and it will simply not look as good as it can. The way it's used it up to the person who downloaded it but my initial purpose of making larger resolution fonts is for people who create products and clothing - these are the people who will endure a font's large filesize for it's resolution.
Nymphont I still don't know how you've been able to optimize items in FontCreator? You have criticized me for uploading a flawed font but I did not know it was flawed, just because it's a large file doesn't necessarily mean it's flawed? What exactly would you say is wrong with "St Andrew"?
Thank you all.
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