aman@xroads.UUCP (Chris Minshall) (05/05/90)
I was wondering if anybody knows of a program for either the IBM or MAC that
will convert Adobe Type 1 postscript fonts to work on either the MAC or the
IBM? Apparently the format of the actual font file is slightly different on
each computer. Therefore, a conversion between the two must be made. If
anyone knows of such a program or could possibly mail the program to me, I
would very much appreciate it! Thanks.
Chris
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In article <1060@xroads.UUCP>, aman@xroads.UUCP (Chris Minshall) writes: > > I was wondering if anybody knows of a program for either the IBM or MAC that > will convert Adobe Type 1 postscript fonts to work on either the MAC or the > IBM? Apparently the format of the actual font file is slightly different on > each computer. Therefore, a conversion between the two must be made. If > anyone knows of such a program or could possibly mail the program to me, I > would very much appreciate it! Thanks. Yes, they are. The file-server@adobe.com has a description of the formats, and enough info to decode them. Actualy, you merely need to convert them to true ASCII for the PC. There are several ways, the simplest for the mac was suggested by R. Silverman I think. Simply send the font to the printer, but do a command F to capture the data to a file. (I think it's command F, but not being a mac type...). At anyrate, you will or should get an Ascii file as the font is uncompressed, and converted on the fly. Generaly speaking the IBM fonts are normal text, rather than binary, due to the fact that DOS interprets 0x1a as end of file. If you have a printer to file capture routine, (many exists), you can capture the data from the app into ascii. I think the mac will be happy with a straight text format as well. Cheers Woody P.S. The real sticker is converting MAC SCREEN fonts to Windows SCREEN fonts and visa versa...