dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (11/01/90)
I remember some discussion on this in the past, but I didn't need the info at the time. We have some Type 1 fonts for a Macintosh. We'd like to install them on a NeXT. How is it done? You needn't be very specific; I'm pretty handy in both environments. Thanks -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner
amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) (11/01/90)
In article <1990Oct31.181751.27859@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >We have some Type 1 fonts for a Macintosh. We'd like to install them >on a NeXT. How is it done? 1. Convert the 'LWFN' files from Macintosh downloadable font format to plain 'TEXT' files. There is a PD program to do this called "unAdobe," and Adobe has a tech note that describes both the Mac & PC formats themselves in case you need to code something up from scratch. 2. Place this resulting text file in /LocalLibrary/Fonts/outline, with the full PostScript name of the font as the file name. 3. Place a copy of the AFM file in /LocalLibrary/Fonts/afm. 4. Issue the command 'buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts' to update the index. Note: you can also put files in ~/Fonts as well as /LocalLibrary/Fonts, but they will then only be accessible to you. If you are really twisted, you can also write a program to convert Mac screen fonts to BDF files and install them as screen fonts, but I've found this to be too much trouble :). -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- God is real unless declared integer. -- Allen W. Sherzer (aws@vax3.UUCP)
ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) (11/02/90)
On 31-Oct-90 in Re: Macintosh Fonts user Amanda Walker@visix.com writes: >If you are really twisted, you can also write a program to convert Mac >screen fonts to BDF files and install them as screen fonts, but I've found >this to be too much trouble :). How can one do this? I've found that some of the fonts I installed on the NeXT from Mac are of an unacceptable quality at small sizes. I therfore would like to convert the Mac screen font to a NeXT bitmap font.. Len Schultz