Customer query about "trading in old fonts"

[Joe]

Uphill in BOTH directions! :wink:

[hotmetal]

Uphill in BOTH directions! :wink:

I don't think they're taking us seriously, Joe.

What's snow?

[gnubler]

So a customer asked me today if I knew of a way to "trade in 300+ postscript fonts"(that he purchased way back when, his words not mine) for newer open-type. 

You know someone who actually purchased fonts?! Wow!

[Ear]

He was rambling something about getting better results on images by saving them all as .eps instead of .tiff, "whatever buddy,

 :laugh: :laugh: - LMFAO - resisting urge to jack font thread and start bitching about eps vs tiff.... uuummmmpppff... breathe... okay, better.

LOL - freakin Gnubler! We were all thinking it, good to have you back.  :grin:

[gnubler]

Seriously - I've only worked in one place where the owner actually purchased fonts (Adobe) because she heard those super scary radio commercials about getting busted for having illegal software. All the other shops I've worked in - fonts come in, and they never make it out.

400 FREE fonts with Vista!? That's it - I'm upgrading straight away. It sounds better and better every day.

[David]

we actually purchased the entire Adobe Type 1 Font Family for Mac and PC years ago...

don't stop the steelin' tho.

[hotmetal]

Remember the Key Fonts CD? 1000 unlocked free fonts! The company, Softkey, gave this disk away for years as a bonus with their other craptastic software deals.

Turned out that the Key Fonts were actually Adobe fonts with most of their screen font sizes and hints stripped out. When Adobe got this to court they were able to show that the code was actually theirs. That, of course, took years, and by then the damage was done. You've seen these fonts, they have SSC in their name, for Southern Software Corp. This all started in the early 1990s with one guy with a copy of Fontographer and a pile of Adobe fonts. I think he lived in Georgia.

He sold the damn thing to Softkey. Softkey got bought by the Learning Company, who got bought by Mattel. Mattel was holding the bag when the shit went down, to the tune of several million bucks.

I don't think you can trade your Key Fonts CD in on an OTF version!

[frailer]

Hotmetal, you are a mine of amusing, [and scary], information. Sounds like Dixie payback to me... :laugh: 
Hmmm...I'm Australian....
Are you allowed to say stuff like that there? Or am I gonna cause ructions?   :undecided:

Anyway, who needs all those other sizes; and hinting, for that matter... :evil:

[hotmetal]

Hotmetal, you are a mine of amusing, [and scary], information. Sounds like Dixie payback to me... :laugh: 
Hmmm...I'm Australian....
Are you allowed to say stuff like that there? Or am I gonna cause ructions?   :undecided:

Anyway, who needs all those other sizes; and hinting, for that matter... :evil:

Ructions, schumcktions, what the heck is a Dixie payback?

[frailer]

Hotmetal, you are a mine of amusing, [and scary], information. Sounds like Dixie payback to me... :laugh: 
Hmmm...I'm Australian....
Are you allowed to say stuff like that there? Or am I gonna cause ructions?   :undecided:

Anyway, who needs all those other sizes; and hinting, for that matter... :evil:

Ructions, schumcktions, what the heck is a Dixie payback?

Yeah, well, I thought I was getting a bit carried away.   :embarrassed:  Too vivid an imagination. Had a vision of a bunch of large log cabins in the Georgia pines...people packing the CDs...stuff like that. No? 

Oh well...we'll just drop it then....

Put it down to a cultural gap.

[hotmetal]

Actually I think he was a computer nerd with just enough knowledge — but no professional ethics — to put the disk together, living in a condo in Atlanta.

Just remember:  that slimeball was responsible for hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of dollars of ruined print jobs over the years. The art dept. upstairs has a whole folder of SSC's craptastic fonts. If I ran the zoo, that folder would be toast by now. Instead... they use them in current design jobs...