Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Font Suitcase Files
Message-ID: <36003@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Oct 89 17:43:21 GMT
References: <8910240320.AA14386@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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saa33413@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU ("Scott A. Alfter") writes:
>I've transferred lots of Macintosh font suitcase files onto ProDOS disks.
>I hope to break these suitcases down into their constituent font files so
>I can use the fonts on my IIe with TimeOut SuperFonts and 816/Paint.
>
>Does anyone out there know anything about suitcase files?  Articles in
>A2-Central and Call-A.P.P.L.E. describe the format of the fonts themselves.
>However, no Apple II publication in its right mind would publish the format
>of a Macintosh file.  I can recognize a font in a suitcase file, but I 
>need to know what headers the suitcase files themselves use.  I hope to
>write a program, running under ProDOS 8, that will automatically (or at
>least, semiautomatically) sift out fonts.
>
>Yours truly,
>Scott Alfter

Good luck.  Macintosh fonts are almost entirely stored in resources, including
NFNT, FONT and FOND resources (the latter links together a lot of FONTs in the
same family and also correlates screen fonts to Postscript fonts, or something
like that.  I'm oversimplifying because I don't have this memorized).

Although you can transfer both forks of the file using GS/OS and AppleShare or
the MPW IIgs tool DuplicateIIgs (Apple File Exchange does *not* put forked
files on ProDOS disks), ProDOS 8 will be unable to read the file.


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