Postscript fonts on Vegas Video

brey wrote on 1/5/2003, 9:43 AM

Does anybody here know how to use postscript fonts on vegas video? i have these commercial fonts with me right now and they are in postscript format. w/ .pfb and .pfm extensions. i realized the fonts arent listed on VV's Text Media tool. i'd really like to use the fonts on VV. is there anyway i can use these fonts on VV? a driver perhaps or a patch. pls help!!!

thx!

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TorS wrote on 1/5/2003, 11:03 AM

I don't think you can use Postscript fonts in Vegas.

Tor

seeker wrote on 1/5/2003, 12:01 PM

Tor,

Wow! Apparently you are right. I just checked in Vegas, on a small project, and added some text and sure enough, none of my two dozen or so PostScript fonts showed up in the font list. As far as I know, Vegas is the only application that I have that doesn't see and use my PostScript fonts. Too bad, because I have some good ones. I even have one OpenType font, which is "the wave of the future" in fonts. I think Adobe has just finished converting their entire font library of umpteen thousand fonts to OpenType. I have Adobe Type Manager 4.1 Lite for Windows on my system as a free but necessary "handler" for PostScript fonts.

I am using Font Reserve from DiamondSoft as my font manager and it needs ATM Lite if you want to use PostScript and MultiMasters, because DiamondSoft wisely chose not to "reinvent the wheel" with Adobe's PostScript/MultiMaster stuff. Font Reserve is one of the few font managers that can handle OpenType fonts as well as TrueType, PostScript, and MultiMaster fonts, and probably the only font manager that can handle them efficiently in large numbers. I am currently using the free demo of Font Reserve, which is good indefinitely but is limited to handling 100 fonts. I plan to spend about $70 in a month or two to get the full version of Font Reserve, which can handle an "unlimited" number of fonts.

But back to this Vegas PostScript font thing. SoFo, that would be a good thing to include in Vegas Video 4. Modernize your font handling to at least allow the usage of PostScript and MultiMaster fonts in conjunction with Adobe Type Manager Lite being on the system. And be aware that some of us will be agitating to use OpenType fonts in the not too distant future. We will want to use MultiMaster and OpenType fonts in our Star Wars crawlers in our upcoming HDTV productions. Yeah, baby.

-- seeker --

brey wrote on 1/5/2003, 6:53 PM

ok. thx for ur replies. its too bad theres now way to use the fonts on vegas. i have lots of commercial fonts and im sure it will look good on vegas and my 1st project. :(

do any of you know how to convert postscript to truetype? a software?

mfranco wrote on 1/6/2003, 6:54 AM

Hi, you can make your titles in adobe photoshop using a postscript font then import the file into vegas. Create the photoshop document 640x480 pixels, RGB Color with a transparent background, save it as a regular photoshop document (psd). Vegas recognizes the alpha channel and it works just like a native vegas text event. The only thing you can't do is edit the text. But you can add effects, transitions, pan/crop, etc.

If you don't have photoshop but you do have another graphics program that recognizes postscript fonts, make the titles white on a black background and save them as a windows bitmap (.bmp) file and import them into vegas. Apply the mask generator filter or use parent/child mask to see the footage under the text.

I use PaintShop Pro 7, Photoshop 5 and Vegas Video 3c build 138 on Win2k system.

I hate to see a good font get left behind,
franco