Path: utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Converting PostScript fonts to PostScript drawings?
Message-ID: <5147@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 00:16:51 GMT
References: <9338@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <9338@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
>Is there a way to convert PostScript fonts, such as those created in
>Fontographer, into PostScript drawing objects that can be edited and
>manipulated in Illustrator or FreeHand?  I don't just want to be able
>to take a single character and move it around the page... I want to
>be able to change the character's shape, extend serifs, add flourishes,
>and so on.

I noticed an announcement of a product (can't recall the product, the
manufacturer, or the magazine, but it was recent -- not too helpful, eh?)
that will do what you want.  I'll try to re-find the info
and post it if no one else replies.

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank