Turning a logo into a font

Andrew_Sam posted this at 22:09 — 29th November 2003.

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Hi folks

Wonder if I can pick your collective brains please?
At work they're changing to a new logo from next week and I was wondering how do I convert this into a new font (to allow users to select it in Word documents etc. so the new logo appears on Letterheads etc)
If it's a question of software any recommendations for Freeware?

Thanks

Andrew

Suzanne posted this at 22:34 — 29th November 2003.

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In Word it should be an .eps file, I believe, for them to insert it?

To turn it into a font it MUST be in b&w only, is it?

Andrew_Sam posted this at 02:15 — 30th November 2003.

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Hi Suzanne

Thanks for the reply.

I have the logo in encapsulated post script but it's not in black and white, can I convert it and if so how?

Also where do I go from a b/w .eps file to converting it to a .ttf file?

Thanks

Suzanne posted this at 03:15 — 30th November 2003.

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Depending on your operating system, you'd have to find a font-making program such as Corel Draw, Fontographer, et cetera, and trace the logo to get it into Vector format.

From there you can export it to .ttf.

Andrew_Sam posted this at 22:25 — 20th December 2003.

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Thanks Folks
In the end the "Boss" decided he didn't want the logo exported to a True Type font, which sort of simplifies things
Merry Xmas and thanks anyway