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From: grahams@milton.u.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text.desktop
Subject: Moving fonts from Macs to Suns
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Date: 17 Aug 90 16:32:31 GMT
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For various reasons, I'm attempting to bring some
PostScript fonts from a Macintosh onto a network of
Sun workstations running Unix.

One font was created by Fontographer (the file creation
date is sometime in 1987) and is a Type 3 font (no
font metrics file). The other (as a test) is Adobe's
Minion-Regular font (downloadable file, AFM and screen
fonts.)

I downloaded all relevant files as binaries using Kermit 0.90
on the Mac. I then ftp'd to another machine (though I didn't
set the file type to binary, I'll go back and try this).

I then attempted to use FrameMakers fmScreen2mfonts program
to convert the screen fonts. The program bombed, resulting
in a segmentation fault and a core dump. Examining the core
dump showed the following errors:
     Too many font names in resource file.
     Warning: Unable to find a font name.
     Unknown Font.

So now what?

Thanks,

Steve Graham
graham@isis.ee.washington.edu