henry%angel@Sun.COM (Henry McGilton -- Software Products) (09/06/89)
OK. So I jumped in with both feet and purchased Adobe Garamond and Adobe Expert Garamond. My plan is (was) to make troff cognisant of these fonts and download the fonts at the start of each session. I ordered the fonts on Macintosh disks and moved them over to my Sun system, from where I thought I would be able to download them to my printer. Unfortunately, the relevant font information -- the stuff that comes after the eexec operator, is in some kind of compressed eight-bit binary, that I have been unable to determine how to uncompress. Basically, the Mac font files contain: some Mac specific stuff some font file heading stuff (PostScript) a currentfile eexec a lot of binary stuff (1) a bunch of zeros a cleartomark operator some more Mac specific stuff. It's section (1) that's causing problems, because it's binary. The question is, how do I get the stuff after the eexec operator into seven-bit ASCII readable hex? Is it possible to do this at all with the Mac fonts? Please mail me and I'll summarise for the newsgroups. +------------------+------------------------+---------------------------+ | Henry McGilton | I saw the future, | arpa: hmcgilton@sun.com | | Sun Microsystems | and it didn't work. | uucp: ...!sun!angel!henry | | Mt. View, CA | | | +------------------+------------------------+---------------------------+