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Mac users?

General Discussion
#1

I’m getting ready to make decals for some rolling stock for my Challenge 2 which I’m still working on!.
I’m trying to find a truly free copy of Truetype for Railroad Roman for my Mac and had no luck after 45 minutes. There are lots of sites that claim they have it but I haven’t found anyone who actually does have a free version.
Does anyone have a source for the Truetype version?

#2

Here’s one that has three versions:

http://www.fonts2u.com/search.html?q=railroad

#3

Thank you Ray, that was just what I couldn’t find. Now we’ll see how I do after a 45 year break from applying decals!

#4

Doug, what are you using for a printer (inkjet, etc.) and what are you going to print them on? (waterslide paper?) Keep us posted on how they turn out.

#5

I’ve had good luck with laser decal paper. Have to take in a disc I’ve put it on to get it printed on a friends color laser printer. the ink-jet ones always ran one me, no matter how much I sprayed them. I got my decal paper on ebay. Clear and white.

For my iMac I use the Color It art program, pretty cheap but works great. I use it for all my photos also to crop down/etc. It’s made only for Macs. Versatile to use, but easy enough to master.

http://www.microfrontier.com/

jerry

#6

Jerry

Just what we need for the wife’s and my Macs as we were looking for something just like “Color it”. Little spendy but most likely worth every penny !

Nam 71-72

Cheers TOF

#7

I should have a good or bad luck report on Friday on decals. I’ll try my luck today!

#8

Here’s the laser decals I had done for the rotary tank. Designed them on the Color It program.

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Rotary%20Build/RotTnkDone1.JPG)

(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/jerrybarnes/Rotary%20Build/RotTnkDone2.JPG)

#9

Really nice job Jerry.
I like the quakity of laser better but I was not successful finding anyone that could use a Mac file.

#10

I just save them as a JPG on the disc, any program can read that.

#11

I don’t run Apples, but since this thread centers around Fonts…

I’m looking for the New Haven or Boston & Maine font used during the McGinnis era (bold heavy serif N and H or B and M) to help Andy C with a project. Any ideas what the font name might be ow where I could come up with it?

I only need a few letters, so if necessary I can create it by hand.

#12

Jon,
If there is no hurry, I have a disc with thousands of fonts. I can rip you a copy.
Ralph

#13

Thanks Ralph - That would be cool. The more I look at this project the more I think I will need to hand draw the letters. I only need 2.

#14

Ralph, thanks… :slight_smile: Jon, you too :slight_smile:

#15

http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/myfiles.php?id=Doug%20Arnold
I took this picture of the inkjet decal before spraying it with matte to cover the edges. It’s not quite straight but what do you expect after 45 years!
I still can’t upload from Freight Shed so you’ll want to see the file labeled decal.