<GOUVEAF@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (05/20/91)
I need help on this. I have both REFONT and UNSIT, but have been
unsuccesful in taking a SOMEFONT.SIT file and coming out with a
usable ATM font at the end. Can anyone out there tell me how it's
done? I'm looking for a method that doesn't involve a Mac...
Fernando Gouvea
gouvea@heac.mast.queensu.cagouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea) (05/25/91)
This is a progress report on converting Mac fonts to ATM fonts. I got no response to my earlier posting (except for several "me too"s), but I managed to get some information on GEnie. 1) There are DOS programs UNSIT, to unpack .sit archives, and REFONT, to convert the resulting fonts to ATM format. REFONT is on cica; I can upload USIT30.ZIP if there is any interest (and if someone tells me how...). 2) Assuming you have the Mac font in a .sit archive, the following procedure seems to work: a)run UNSIT with the xb flag; it will ask you for dos names for the several files it finds. You should answer no to the query about Mac binary headers. The files you want are the .afm file (a data file; more precisely, it's in the data fork of a Mac file) and the font outline file, usually identified by LZWF (after unpacking it looks like a .pfb file, so you can identify it by LISTing it). The .sit file usually also include a bitmap (which you don't need) and a readme file (which you may want to read). b)run REFONT on the resulting files, as per the instructions. All the difficulty seems to be in the UNSIT process. 3) The whole process is a bit erratic, and will occasionally fail for mysterious reasons. It will certainly not work on type 3 fonts (which have no .afm file). Now, all this is less than perfect if you're on the internet, because the Mac files are usually to be found as .hqx files. The only program I've found that handles them is xbin (on simtel), but it splits up the data and resource forks in such a way that UNSIT can't unpack the resulting files. Can anybody help? Fernando Gouvea gouvea@heac.mast.queensu.ca