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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!! With ATM and Type1 & 3 PS Fonts
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Date: 18 Sep 90 11:58:07 GMT
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In article <44917@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (The Wandering Phew) writes:
>>3] Does anyone have a program that they can E-mail to me that will convert Type3
>>Postscript files to Type1 for use with ATM.
>
>I don't know of one, but if it doesn't exist now (Type 1 being a relative
>newcomer to the open standards world) it will down the road. Probably
>commercial, though. (If someone knows otherwise, I'd like to find out myself)

Well, since you asked, Chuq --

Fontographer 3.1 -- a real gem in my opinion.  Too bad I don't have the $$
to spend on it -- I wouldn't use it enough to be worth the investment.

Evolution, by Image Club -- Has been shipping "real soon now" for over a
year.  Oh well, for $99 this could have potential some day.

Metamorphosis, by Altsys -- it'll suck the outlines our of a postscript
printer (or the downloadable?) and save them as Type 1 or Type 3.

That's all that I know of.  I had wanted a few months back to make a
shareware Type 3 -> Type 1 conversion program, but lack of time and
lack of documentation on both formats have relegated it to the
"projects I'd like to do sometime when I have the time" pile.

Ken
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