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From: paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re^2: PostScript downloadable font formats
Keywords: postscript font download unadobe
Message-ID: <76@frcs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 17:37:47 GMT
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A while back I wrote:
>says that as the fonts are for a Mac, they cannot be downloaded
>from an IBM PClone.

Robert Elliott replied:
>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.

I have managed to copy the resource fork off from MAC to PC-DOS
format, and am about to knock up some code to pull the resources
into a suitable PostScript file. This would be (sort of) a DOS
version of unAdobe.

If anyone would like a copy (assuming that it all works!), send
me mail and I will mail you, or, if there is enough interest,
post to the net.

>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.)

If anyone has source for this (or hints for writing one from
scratch) I would be grateful for it, to use as a starting point
for a PC version. A MAC executable would _still_ be useful,
if anyone has one floating around.

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