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Post #787517

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RU.08
Parent topic
Attempting to re-create Phantom Menace alien subtitles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/787517/action/topic#787517
Date created
2-Sep-2015, 10:16 PM

Hi schorman it's in the pastebin link I posted:

sub_size=86
sub_width=32
sub_pos=Default(sub_pos,636)
sub_spc=-3

subtitle(subttext,-1,sub_pos,0,subtitlelength-1,"ITC Franklin Gothic Demi",sub_size,$FFFFFF,$FFFFFFFF,8,sub_spc,0,sub_width)

None of the ITC Franklin Gothic fonts I've seen are completely perfect to the variation used by LFL. According to Erik Pancakes:

Erik Pancakes said:

According to Starwars.com back when TPM was in post-production, they used

ITC Franklin Gothic Demi Bold, 69 point with -30 tracking

for Episode I.

...Yeah, they made an actual font announcement. I know.

So according to that information I've used exactly the font they claimed to use, it isn't a "condensed" variant I can confirm that. It's just ITC Frank Goth Demi that was digitised by another company (perhaps LFL themselves).

Note how close my Subtitle looks to the AOTC HDTV:

http://i.imgur.com/irXC9pU.png

http://i.imgur.com/4QaNUhu.png

If you flip between them you can see the subtle differences more clearly (heights of the t's, angles on the S & e letter ends, width of the narrow points) but at a glance they look nearly identical.