How to make my font thinner

I am using the "Italia" font..
just using it to create a simple logo with company name..
the font is a little chunky and want to thin it out a bit..
can anyone offer some suggestions on making the font look
thinner ...maybe
using the transform or skew or scale options..
not sure how to accomplish this..
ASP, SQL2005, DW8 VBScript, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio
2008

thanks for the suggestions..
cant change the font as its the font that has been used for
our business for
far to long..
we found that there is a Bold version and a Medium version..
so we are
having our network guys look thru old backups to see if we
can find the
medium which seems to be the one we used back then..
My intentions were to make the font look skinner, i didnt
want to modify or
create a new font.. just make it appear thinner.. just like
with any image
you can mask and crop and blend and blur.. i figured that it
could be done
with type..
but thanks again.
ASP, SQL2005, DW8 VBScript, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio
2008
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Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
> I am using the "Italia" font..
>
> just using it to create a simple logo with company
name..
>
> the font is a little chunky and want to thin it out a
bit..
>
> can anyone offer some suggestions on making the font
look thinner ...maybe
> using the transform or skew or scale options..
>
> not sure how to accomplish this..
>
>
> Hmm... Here's the
http://www.itcfonts.com/fonts/detail.aspx?PID=201433:
>
quote:
The Italia font family was designed for Letraset in 1974 and
licenced
> to
> ITC in 1977. Italia was based on the Jenson Old Style of
American Type
> Founders, cut circa 1893. This in turn had been based on
the fifteenth
> century
> letters of Nicolas Jenson. With little contrast between
thick and thin
> strokes,
> Italia is a fairly heavy face, best suited to display
and advertising
> work.
>
> If you really want, you can convert the text element to
a path and
> hand-edit
> all the nodes. (If you have Illustrator, use that rather
than Fireworks,
> as
> Fireworks' tools are very basic.) However, I agree with
Twocans, find a
> different font. There are hundreds of thousands of them
out there, surely
> you
> can find one better suited to the task at hand.
>
>
>

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