blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Blatter) (03/17/90)
Hi, out there! Does anyone know something about type 3 Postscript fonts? This format is produced by the Mac program Fontographer. Is there any technical information available from someone? Thanks for your help! -- Martin A. Blatter University of Zurich, Switzerland e-mail to: blatter@ifi.unizh.ch --
rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu (03/18/90)
In article <1990Mar16.221649.3753@ifi.unizh.ch>, blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Blatter) writes: > Hi, out there! > > Does anyone know something about type 3 Postscript fonts? > This format is produced by the Mac program Fontographer. > Is there any technical information available from someone? > Martin, Actually, "type 3" refers to any user-defined PostScript font; Fontographer's format is just one of many (although a popular one). I have looked at them before; as I recall, they store the character descriptions as hex strings, which are decoded and executed by a procedure. Reading the procedure and thinking for a while should be sufficient to unravel the encoding. Richard Silverman arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Systems Engineer bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan.bitnet AM Computer Products CIS: [72727,453] Southington, CT 06489