saa33413@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU ("Scott A. Alfter") (10/24/89)
I've transferred lots of Macintosh font suitcase files onto ProDOS disks.
I hope to break these suitcases down into their constituent font files so
I can use the fonts on my IIe with TimeOut SuperFonts and 816/Paint.
Does anyone out there know anything about suitcase files? Articles in
A2-Central and Call-A.P.P.L.E. describe the format of the fonts themselves.
However, no Apple II publication in its right mind would publish the format
of a Macintosh file. I can recognize a font in a suitcase file, but I
need to know what headers the suitcase files themselves use. I hope to
write a program, running under ProDOS 8, that will automatically (or at
least, semiautomatically) sift out fonts.
Yours truly,
Scott Alfter
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Mailed 23 Oct 89 @ 2221 hrs.mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) (10/29/89)
saa33413@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU ("Scott A. Alfter") writes: >I've transferred lots of Macintosh font suitcase files onto ProDOS disks. >I hope to break these suitcases down into their constituent font files so >I can use the fonts on my IIe with TimeOut SuperFonts and 816/Paint. > >Does anyone out there know anything about suitcase files? Articles in >A2-Central and Call-A.P.P.L.E. describe the format of the fonts themselves. >However, no Apple II publication in its right mind would publish the format >of a Macintosh file. I can recognize a font in a suitcase file, but I >need to know what headers the suitcase files themselves use. I hope to >write a program, running under ProDOS 8, that will automatically (or at >least, semiautomatically) sift out fonts. > >Yours truly, >Scott Alfter Good luck. Macintosh fonts are almost entirely stored in resources, including NFNT, FONT and FOND resources (the latter links together a lot of FONTs in the same family and also correlates screen fonts to Postscript fonts, or something like that. I'm oversimplifying because I don't have this memorized). Although you can transfer both forks of the file using GS/OS and AppleShare or the MPW IIgs tool DuplicateIIgs (Apple File Exchange does *not* put forked files on ProDOS disks), ProDOS 8 will be unable to read the file. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions expressed in this tome Send PERSONAL mail ONLY (please) to: | should not be construed to imply that Amer. Online: Matt DTS | Apple Computer, Inc., or any of its ThisNet: mattd@apple.com | subsidiaries, in whole or in part, ThatNet: (stuff)!ames!apple!mattd | have any opinion on any subject." Other mail by request only, please. | "So there." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------