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From: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Looking for type 3 fonts information
Message-ID: <12058@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 90 22:19:31 GMT
References: <1990Mar16.221649.3753@ifi.unizh.ch>
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In article <1990Mar16.221649.3753@ifi.unizh.ch>, blatter@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Blatter) writes:
> Hi, out there!
> 
> Does anyone know something about type 3 Postscript fonts?
> This format is produced by the Mac program Fontographer.
> Is there any technical information available from someone?
> 

Martin,

Actually, "type 3" refers to any user-defined PostScript font; Fontographer's
format is just one of many (although a popular one).  I have looked at them
before; as I recall, they store the character descriptions as hex strings,
which are decoded and executed by a procedure.  Reading the procedure and
thinking for a while should be sufficient to unravel the encoding.

                                                Richard Silverman

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