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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: MAC-PC fonts
Summary: fonts
Message-ID: <17379@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 29 Nov 89 12:44:33 GMT
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In article <6987@uqvax.decnet.uq.oz>, CCMIGUEL@uqvax.decnet.uq.oz writes:
> 
> I have some Adobe fonts on diskette bought for Macintosh. I would
> like to have them available for IBM-PC for downloading to the printer.
> Can I get the same files from Adobe for PC at no extra (or not much) charge?
> Can I convert the Mac files to PC for use by, say, Ventura? (I'm not
> interested in the screen fonts, just the downloadables).
> 
> Another little problem. I cannot get single opening and closing quotes from
> a NTX or a SilentWriter using MS-DOS MSWord V5.0 although I *can* get them
> on the old LaserWriter Plus. Microsoft has given up on offering a solution
> (they even sent me a new *flaky* driver that works even worse). Does anybody
> know why this may be so. What is different between NTX and Plus that caused the
> damnedly useful single quotes to be placed somewhere else (Ventura has no such
> problem and neither does MSWord on the Mac. 
> 
> Thanks very much for any suggestions,
> 
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> Miguel Peirano  
> 
> Prentice Computer Centre - University of Queensland
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> 
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O.k.  You can use the adobe mac fonts on the pc.  You will need someway
to transfer them to the pc.  There are 2 parts to a file.  a datafork and
a resource fork.  I think that the mac fonts are resource forks.  what you have
to know, is that the internal format for the mac and the pc fonts are difrent.
It is a real pain in the neck, but Adobe does have a document available that
specifies the format, and in the past I have gotten it, though I don't know
where it is now.  The newer unprotected fonts can be made to work, but not the
older ones that required the initializer, until after you have done an initiailze
and tied the font to a machine.  It really is tricky, but possible.  Adobe might
exchange things with you, but the will almost certainly charge you a fee.  They
are in business to make money and will squeeze the most out of evrything like any other company.
I'd like to know if you can get them to do that.  I am almost certain, that they
won't, unless you have registered the fonts.  As for the single quotes, perhaps
you need to look at the drivers for the re-encode portion.  They ususally
re-encode the charcters in the fonts.  look for something like  .notdef
or singlequote.  See what value they have assigned it.  Then look at one of the
encoding portions of a working driver.  You will problably have to move the
encoding vector.  I think Adobe reassigned some of the default encodings (the
correspondance between the letter name and the binary bit pattern th
at
selects that particular letter.