anh01033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (04/12/90)
I have a question, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for it, but here goes... I have a whole slew of Mac postscript printer fonts that I need converted to be used on an IBM. We are set up so that we have two Macs and two IBMs linked together through Appletalk. The Macs are the only ones that are able to download the fonts, which ties them up (more of an inconvience than time consuming). What I would like is to convert the files into DOS so that we can download from the IBMs as well. We have a Mac/DOS file converter but it keeps telling me that the 'data fork is empty' when I try to convert them. We also have another IBM hooked to a laser printer in another part of the office that we would like to use them on as well. Any advice or suggestions are appreciated. Andrew Hunt (anh01033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu (04/13/90)
In article <71400002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, anh01033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > I have a question, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for it, but > here goes... I have a whole slew of Mac postscript printer fonts that I need > converted to be used on an IBM. We are set up so that we have two Macs and two > IBMs linked together through Appletalk. The Macs are the only ones that are able > to download the fonts, which ties them up (more of an inconvience than time > consuming). What I would like is to convert the files into DOS so that we can > download from the IBMs as well. We have a Mac/DOS file converter but it keeps > telling me that the 'data fork is empty' when I try to convert them. We also > have another IBM hooked to a laser printer in another part of the office that > we would like to use them on as well. > Any advice or suggestions are appreciated. Andrew, The font information is stored in a series of resources; this is why your file transfer didn't do it for you. Furthermore, the hex portion of the font file (most of it) is encoded in binary to save space, and expanded on the fly by the driver. I think the simplest thing for you to do is this: on the Mac, print a document which will require downloading a font, and print it to disk. In the PostScript file, you'll find the whole font extracted, expanded and ready to go. Richard Silverman arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Systems Engineer bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan.bitnet AM Computer Products CIS: [72727,453] Southington, CT 06489
woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) (04/14/90)
In article <71400002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, anh01033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > > I have a question, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for it, but > here goes... I have a whole slew of Mac postscript printer fonts that I need > converted to be used on an IBM. We are set up so that we have two Macs and two > IBMs linked together through Appletalk. The Macs are the only ones that are able > to download the fonts, which ties them up (more of an inconvience than time > consuming). What I would like is to convert the files into DOS so that we can > download from the IBMs as well. We have a Mac/DOS file converter but it keeps > telling me that the 'data fork is empty' when I try to convert them. We also > have another IBM hooked to a laser printer in another part of the office that > we would like to use them on as well. On the file server, (mail ps-fileserver@adobe.com), is a file describing the formats of both the MAC and PC fonts. Basicaly, you will have to write a simple conversion program to do the work. If I had a couple of mac's and an IBM pc, what I would do, is to connect one of the macs to the PC, using a serial cable. Then I'd run procomm and use the ASCII protocol, and send the file (font) from the mac down the serial link. I'm sure it can do that. You will have the font that the PRINTER sees at that point. (The mac will have hexified and converted what ever it needs to convert to a ASCII stream for the laser printer. NOTE: You are SOL as far as the screen font's. I don't know of a program that takes MAC screen fonts and converts them over to Windows fonts. I'd give my eye teeth for one, as well as one that would take HPLJ fonts and create Windows screen fonts..... Cheers Woody