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From: paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PostScript downloadable font formats
Keywords: postscript font download
Message-ID: <67@frcs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 90 12:11:37 GMT
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Organization: Flagship Wide Area Networks (Pty) Ltd
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A while back I wrote:

>A client is planning to purchase some soft fonts for a PostScript
>printer (Qume ScripTen). The supplier (who knows it all, of course :-)
>says that as the fonts are for a Mac, they cannot be downloaded
>from an IBM PClone.

A while later, Robert Elliott of Embossed Graphics replied (for which,
BTW, I am eternally grateful):

>Macs:  all data is stored in POST resources of one file (in the System
>Folder usually), and the eexec portion of the font is stored as full
>8bit characters rather than hex.  The Mac OS converts all this to an
>ASCII file on the fly when it sends it to the printer.

>There is a Mac program called unAdobe which will convert the Mac
>format into a standard ASCII file, which you could then send from
>any computer (UNIX, PCs, etc.)

Now I have but one problem -- I need to get hold of a copy of unAdobe
and a Mac. The Mac is not too bad -- one of the local DTP places will
let me use their -- but where can I get ``unAdobe''. Does anyone out
there have a copy that they are will to uuencode & mail to me? I am
assuming that it is public domain, and I know nothing about Mac-uuencode
(if such a beast exists). The machine that it will have to run on is a 
vanilla Mac II, not a hacker's machine, so it would not have compilers,
clever tools, &c.

If unAdobe is a commercial product, where do I get it?

For these and more, many thanks.

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