I'd like to archive the file you used to make the decals. PM me if you can share the file. I'll post it to my site at https://fantasticpinball.free.resourcespace.com/

Fantastic

Can anyone use those files?

Do you need an account to access?

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I need give this a shot too one day soon. Looks good!

@Sea_Wolf: What is the name of the font you used?

Convert to a pdf and it’s locked for others.

Thanks @Sea_Wolf. Gottlieb used a bunch of fonts in different places over the years. I think some were hand-drawn, so it's hard to find a match for them. It would be really nice if a repository were started with fonts for various pinball machines, like I think FantasticPinball is trying to do.

I've used Franklin Gothic fonts at time, and there's a font called "Gottlieb" that's very similar to their 70's score reel numbers. Sometimes Helvitica or Futura...

There have been a few threads on here about Gottlieb fonts.

Perhaps Peter at Inkochito would be prepared to host the numbers and assure availability?

Not always the case. The font that it calls for will be locked, but it won't automatically add the font to the file. The best way to do it is to type it up in a vector graphics program(CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, etc.) and while using the proper font, make it the exact size needed, with the proper kerning and spacing, and then convert the text to outlines(or curves, depending on what your program calls it). This will make it an actual vector drawing that will stay 100% true to the size the original artist made it. The only variances to size for any end user will be due to their printer settings(i.e. whether it's printing at 100% scale, or fit to page, or scale to page, or whatever, they all affect final sizing and will need to be attended to by said end user).

My experiences of tweaking fonts was done with Inkscape and also the paid-for 'designer' software version for my Cameo cutter; I found the latter software to work the best.
I'm finding that many restoration jobs using black or a particular close enough colour, etc work better with vinyl against water slides.
In my experience anyway, sometimes the black inks would break up or crack once in the water bath, despite being pre-sealed with a lacquer. Maybe a bad ink batch from the manufacturer though I always buy genuine inks so that shouldn't really occur.

A quick thanks for this, I have to replace a “3” and kept putting it off. This machine in particular, it seems, the inserts fall out over time and go missing.

Simply put if you want to keep a printable copy word or excel files with downloaded fonts we convert to a PDF and it will save what is showing on the screen. I have emailed word copied pdf’s with downloaded fonts for labels to pinheads here on Pinside for years. A native word file transferred from usb or sent by email with downloaded fonts will not save for others that receive it and settings on different pc’s can further ‘reorganize’ the layout.

I agree with you on using the professional (read very expensive for hobbyists) software allows more control and flexibility. I would use illustrator for what the op was making as I have it.

But if you have Microsoft products, a basic Adobe package and access to the web you can do some really good work and can save exactly as PDF’s.

Have fun

I haven't tried it for something like this, but couldn't you print to 'pdf'?