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Saber
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posted 12-02-2005 04:58 AM     Profile for Saber   Author's Homepage   Email Saber     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
I downloaded a font pack from blambot, but now i don't know how to use it. I tried opening it using photoshop 5, but that didn't work. Help me!

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Zephos
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posted 12-02-2005 05:39 AM     Profile for Zephos   Author's Homepage   Email Zephos     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
If it uses a conventional font format like .ttf or .fon, you can just place it in the folder labeled Fonts in your PC's Control Panel... of course, this is assuming that you have a PC and not a Mac (Which I'm assuming)... once you put it in the right folder, it should be available to all relavent applications like Photoshop and such and such.

Oh yeah, if it's zipped up, you'll probably have to extract the smaller files manually and chuck them in. I think Blambot uses .ttf for PCs, so it should work out pretty normally.

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posted 12-02-2005 06:41 AM     Profile for Saber   Author's Homepage   Email Saber     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Tank you, that really helped. I was able to install several fonts. But I am still having trouble installing the thought and speech bubbles. When i try to move them into the 'fonts' folder, it says "Unable to install the font. File: baloons.eps is either invalid or damaged.

well that's the problem (sorry, im a minor, im only 14)

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posted 12-02-2005 08:50 AM     Profile for Zephos   Author's Homepage   Email Zephos     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Hmmm, .eps used to be Adobe's standard vector file format used in apps like Illustrator before it took up .ai as it's main. Ideally, a copy of Illustrator would be best to read it, but your copy of Photoshop 5 might be able to import it as a raster by just opening it (Theoredically... the newer versions of PS can do this easily, not so sure about back then).

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posted 12-02-2005 02:40 PM     Profile for Cloud   Author's Homepage   Email Cloud     Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Some times, like my photoshop, Photoshop has a file of it's own called 'My PSP Files' and it has Brushes folders and Filters folders and all that so see if your photoshop has that too.

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Saber
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posted 26-02-2005 07:46 PM     Profile for Saber   Author's Homepage   Email Saber     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
well, none of those ideas worked. Got any other ideas, or will i just have to buy a program that can open this file?

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posted 26-02-2005 08:48 PM     Profile for Zephos   Author's Homepage   Email Zephos     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Okay, just wanted to make sure that I nailed the coffin this time, so I downloaded the same .eps baloon files and tested them. I'm guessing Photoshop 5 at the time was pretty crappy and doesn't open .eps files, but I'm 100% sure that Photoshop CS does, so if you are going to spend money, might as well be the direct route.

.eps is the standard vector graphic format, standing for something like encapsulated post script. It's not something you chuck into a folder and expect to work automatically, it's an active, graphic file, and the stuff they handed out at blambot are basically cookie cutout templates that you can cut and paste.

If you're not in the mood to invest in PS CS though, I'm pretty sure that there should be plenty of shareware and freeware that you can find on the net that can read .eps though. It's a pretty common graphic format used frequently for print work and CAD, no point spending money for a program that can do such a simple operation. I don't know exactly what your computer is armed with, so I can't give you a straight plan of action, but most any vector program can read .eps, since it's the most common vector graphic format. Of course, you can always take the alternative route to getting commercial software as well.

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