roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (11/01/90)
I'm trying to design some custom special purpose fonts. I bought a
copy of FontStudio but it can't seem to do what I want to, so I think I'm
going to end up writing my own PostScript to define the font directly (and
return FontStudio to MacConnection and get my money back). The question
is, how do I take that PostScript code and turn it into a Macintosh
downloadable font file? I tried looking at some Adobe fonts I have with
ResEdit; they contain a bunch of POST resources, and not much else. I
can't find any place in Inside Macintosh vols I-V that says anything about
the format of the files. Is it documented somewhere?
PS, here's what I want to do. I want to generate a monospaced font
which basically consists of Helvetica letterforms centered in a square
area. So far, that's pretty straight forward with FontStudio. Then, I want
to take one case of the alphabet (maybe the option-shifted half) and have it
be the same as the corresponding un-option-ized character but with a grey
background. That's what I can't do with FS. It lets you do grey-scale, but
only in the bitmaps, and only on greyscale or color monitors. What I want is
more like what you get in Dreams when you select a grey fill pattern for a
character on a monochrome monitor, and I want to do it in the outline form of
the font and have it generate the PostScript and bitmap versions for me. Are
there other font editing programs that would let me do that directly?
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