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From: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Mac/DOS conversion
Message-ID: <17045@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 90 00:44:44 GMT
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In article <71400002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, anh01033@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>      I have a question, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for it, but
> here goes... I have a whole slew of Mac postscript printer fonts that I need
> converted to be used on an IBM. We are set up so that we have two Macs and two
> IBMs linked together through Appletalk. The Macs are the only ones that are able
> to download the fonts, which ties them up (more of an inconvience than time 
> consuming). What I would like is to convert the files into DOS so that we can
> download from the IBMs as well. We have a Mac/DOS file converter but it keeps
> telling me that the 'data fork is empty' when I try to convert them. We also
> have another IBM hooked to a laser printer in another part of the office that
> we would like to use them on as well.
> Any advice or suggestions are appreciated.

Andrew,

The font information is stored in a series of resources; this is why your file
transfer didn't do it for you.  Furthermore, the hex portion of the font file
(most of it) is encoded in binary to save space, and expanded on the fly by
the driver.  I think the simplest thing for you to do is this: on the Mac,
print a document which will require downloading a font, and print it to disk. 
In the PostScript file, you'll find the whole font extracted, expanded and
ready to go.

                                                Richard Silverman

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