Need two fonts from Microsoft

[baconjh]

I'm trying to obtain the Arabic fonts Andalus and Arabic Transparent.
Apparently, they are fonts owned and supplied by Microsoft and can be
installed with a Windows XP disc. Unfortunately, the design company I
work for works on Macs. I was wondering if the Windows XP fonts could
be run on a Mac, and if so if there was an easy way to legally obtain
these fonts.

James Bacon

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi James:

I was wondering if the Windows XP fonts could
be run on a Mac,

Yes, they can. Just drag the TTF or OTF files into your font folder. Note:
Expect "Issues". Windows has a wider subset of the Unicode character set
than Mac OS, and some applications will require coaxing to reveal or use
Unicode characters outside the Mac International character set range.

and if so if there was an easy way to legally obtain
these fonts.

Yes: Buy any version of Windows that contains them. Windows 2000 ought to
be real cheap right now with Vista just about to be released, and it has
full Unicode fonts included with it (Windows NT is too old: the fonts are
not all Unicode).

If you have PPC Macs, it could be useful to buy a copy of Microsoft Office
2004 Professional. This comes with a suitable copy of Windows, and would
allow you to load and run the Windows version of Office for jobs where you
get stuck and need the full Unicode range.

If you have Intel Macs, a copy of Windows XP Professional would be just the
ticket: either chuck it into BootCamp, or run Parallels

Cheers

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[little_creature]

Hi, just to add... most of the true types should work. There's a SW
TransType Pro that can help.

 

[baconjh]

Hi James:


Expect "Issues". Windows has a wider subset of the Unicode character set
than Mac OS, and some applications will require coaxing to reveal or use
Unicode characters outside the Mac International character set range.

be real cheap right now with Vista just about to be released, and it has
full Unicode fonts included with it (Windows NT is too old: the fonts are
not all Unicode).

If you have PPC Macs, it could be useful to buy a copy of Microsoft Office
2004 Professional. This comes with a suitable copy of Windows, and would
allow you to load and run the Windows version of Office for jobs where you
get stuck and need the full Unicode range.

If you have Intel Macs, a copy of Windows XP Professional would be just the
ticket: either chuck it into BootCamp, or run Parallels

Cheers

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

It doesn't seem that anyone here has Microsoft Office 2004
Professional, everyone seems to be running of off Office v.X. However,
our business manager is running off of Window's XP. I searched her hard
drive yesterday for copies of the two fonts and after eight minutes
nothing had shown up. Do these fonts have to be custom installed off of
the Windows XP disc? Can I take them off the disc from a Mac computer
or does it have to be done on a Windows machine? Thanks for your help
so far though. We're getting closer.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

The fonts you're looking for are supplied with Windows XP. See here:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/winxp.htm

You're looking for andlso.ttf and artro.ttf

They may not have been installed unless he selected the "International
Fonts" option when he installed Windows.

You can add them using Windows>Start>Control Panel>Add Remove Programs...

Once you have added them, you will find them in the Windows Font folder
(fonts can be only one place in Windows). However, to search for them in
Windows XP, you need to enable "Search hidden and system folders".

Hope this helps

It doesn't seem that anyone here has Microsoft Office 2004
Professional, everyone seems to be running of off Office v.X. However,
our business manager is running off of Window's XP. I searched her hard
drive yesterday for copies of the two fonts and after eight minutes
nothing had shown up. Do these fonts have to be custom installed off of
the Windows XP disc? Can I take them off the disc from a Mac computer
or does it have to be done on a Windows machine? Thanks for your help
so far though. We're getting closer.

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410