• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Help installing fonts

  Posted by Jake Diamond on May 6, 2008 at 3:26 pm

  Hello,

  This is an idiotic question, so apologies ahead of time. I am trying to install a Helvetica Neue Bold Condensed font that was sent to me – I added it to the Font Book, and it shows up as installed, but when I restart Final Cut, it does now show up. I’ve tried this a few different times, restarting the computer as well. It was sent to me as AFM files with the extension .afm, which I have never seen before. WIll these work or is there something really simple I am doing wrong. I imagine it’s the latter.

  Thank you,

  Jake

  Dual 2.7 GHZ PowerPC G5
  OS 10.4.11
  FCP 6.02

  David Bogie replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Bogie

  May 6, 2008 at 10:51 pm

  FCP is rather fussy about its fonts.
  The only thing you can do is determine what the extension is (likely to be the foundry’s code) and see if you can figure out what’s wrong with it.

  Meantime, google the font name and see if you can find a freebie version that matches the extension on fonts that really do work.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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  Jake Diamond

  May 6, 2008 at 10:57 pm

  David,

  Thanks for responding – after a while, I found out that it shows up in the Boris Title tool, just not Final Cut’s text generator. Why, I don’t know.

  Thanks again,

  Jake
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  David Bogie

  May 7, 2008 at 4:24 pm

  They are capable of seeing and using different types of font files. Yours does not adhere to some weird Apple-specific (one might say Apple-snobbish) file construction. Boris is more lenient and will vectorize almost any typeface you can load into your system.

  bogiesan

  This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

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