Opening a MAC Indesign project on a PC

[nightmare99]

As per title we have a DVD of a catalogue that was produced for us by a design agency, we would like to be able to open it make some edits and export some pdfs. It opens fine in the windows version of indesign but we are missing some fonts. The disc also includes a fonts dit but they appear to be in a mac suit format. Is there anyway to convert the mac fonts to pc easily, or should we try and find pc versions of the fonts? I take it they are likley to be expensive to buy?

Cheers

 

[joey1211]

I use Transtype Pro for converting fonts. The demo version seems to suit your needs.
I'd offer to convert them, but i'm not at work.

 

[nightmare99]

Thanks, I think I have tried transtype already. I will download it and give it a go now.

EDIT - Yes only one font is recognised which has a .dfont extension, the other fonts which don't have a file extension and are 0kb cannot be dragged into the window. There is the projectname_fonts.suit file which is in the fonts folder and is also showing as 0KB, are there actually fonts there or are they just some kind of pointers? I'm not really familiar with mac stuff.

 

[joey1211]

Any ideas where you went wrong if you've already tried it?

 

[nightmare99]

It will only let me drag the times.dfont into the transtype window, to be honest all the other files being at 0k don't inspire me with confidence

 

[simisker]

I used to have a similar problem to this when I worked for a prolab. It's a File System incompatibility problem, as you rightly suspect from the '0K' files.

We got round this with some software that allowed us to read Mac CDs. I can't remember for the life of me what it was called, but this:

http://www.isobuster.com/hfs-recovery.php

...should do the trick [from what I've read; I have no experience with it]. Good price, especially if you don't foresee this being an isolated incident.

EDIT: Or there are trials of TransMAC and CrossFont: http://www.asy.com/index.htm which may be perfect for this one-off instance, assuming that they're not save-disabled crippleware.

 

[joey1211]

The .suit file is not a font (I think), but a Extensis Suitcase file. (font manager)