So what better or best & less inexpensive to convert a vector image in a font?

My client gave me a bunch of vector graphics that another agency that has been given to them for a font they use for amounts of money to their new brand. They gave me vector graphics 0-9, a "$", a "."and a ",

I tried already know what the real police, but I had no success. My next option is to convert the vectors in a new font.

So now, I need to find a program to do the conversion. What programs work best according to your experience.

THX in advance for your suggestions.

Zak.

You don't mention what you are on, the platform which sometimes questions, but that's.

First, you could try harder to identify the font. I know you tried here, and use WhatTheFont, but failing those, "police ID" forum on Typophile.com is your best bet. This is where I go when I can't identify a font myself (which doesn't happen often, but from time to time).

If you can not ID the police and really want to make a new... Well, two concerns:

(1) with effect with vectors of a another font may well violate copyright (depending on the software) of the original font. Leastways, that's how I read the decision of the judge Whyte in summary judgment since Adobe vs. SSI. But I am not a lawyer, just warning you that there could be a question of law.

(2) unless your time is not worth much, probably the most cost-effective way to do this would be to simply pay some geek of the police to do it for you. Research, installation of software and learning what to see and do things no doubt will take four hours or more, and then you've probably still not optimal work and it will not be rendered as if someone had it right at a time. I would probably $80 for a job like this, if it was me work, and EPS files or some format, I can easily open and convert. (I hope there are people who would charge less, btw.) I have a great day job and so I only take parallel projects that really interest me and/or pay my usual rate of consultation, usually both.)

That being said, if you want to rebuild a police force with just these 14 glyphs in there, by yourself and want to know what are your software options:

First of all, you know that any given program has an itinerary for you to get these vector graphics in and do it while keeping the consistent scale. If I had to, I would probably open them all in Illustrator or something like that and stick them in there in FontLab. If you don't have Illustrator, you may need to find another route, or it could mean to experiment and discover what works for your particular software combination...

Something like 90% of the development of professional fonts today through FontLab Studio 5. But it costs $649 and has so many features that it is more than a little intimidating for a new user. I like it, but would hesitate to recommend you or anyone else learn to use it for such a small task, unless you expect to more fonts design or production work in the future.

Fontographer (also owned by FontLab Ltd.) is a lot easier to use option, and the bells and whistles, it lacks certainly does not matter for this purpose. It costs $399.

TypeTool is also made by FontLab Ltd. and costs $99. It is pretty easy to use, too. Probably the healthier option of mind, I think that, if you do it yourself.

FontForge is an alternative open source, which means FREE, hurrah! BUT... unless you are in Linux it does not use a standard UI on your computer, but instead runs in Unix (X - 11 on Mac) or a shell Unix-like (CygWin under Windows). Side Windows which is to install an additional environment on top of Windows. It is just as powerful and complicated to use as FontLab, after you go through the hassle of the he get up and running.

There are also HighLogic FontCreator under Windows, I don't know enough about to have an opinion on. It is hardly on the radar of the developers of professional fonts, most of the time. $199 for editing professional and $79 for the home edition (who said it's "not for commercial purposes").

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