Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Macintosh Fonts Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 20:47:22 GMT References: <1990Oct31.181751.27859@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 27 In article <1990Oct31.181751.27859@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >We have some Type 1 fonts for a Macintosh. We'd like to install them >on a NeXT. How is it done? 1. Convert the 'LWFN' files from Macintosh downloadable font format to plain 'TEXT' files. There is a PD program to do this called "unAdobe," and Adobe has a tech note that describes both the Mac & PC formats themselves in case you need to code something up from scratch. 2. Place this resulting text file in /LocalLibrary/Fonts/outline, with the full PostScript name of the font as the file name. 3. Place a copy of the AFM file in /LocalLibrary/Fonts/afm. 4. Issue the command 'buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts' to update the index. Note: you can also put files in ~/Fonts as well as /LocalLibrary/Fonts, but they will then only be accessible to you. If you are really twisted, you can also write a program to convert Mac screen fonts to BDF files and install them as screen fonts, but I've found this to be too much trouble :). -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- God is real unless declared integer. -- Allen W. Sherzer (aws@vax3.UUCP)