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From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
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Subject: Re: GS Fonts
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.163953.13909@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 25 Jan 91 16:39:53 GMT
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In article <5465@husc6.harvard.edu> ehsu@husc9.UUCP (Eric Hsu) writes:
>I was wondering...
>
>(1) What is the difference between GS Font formats and Mac Font formats?
>Given a Mac font file, how easily can it be converted to the GS format?
>
>(2) Where does one usually find fonts for sale or in the public domain, anyway?
>Respond by e-mail or posting, whatever you see fit...
>
>
>Eric Hsu                           ehsu@husc4.Bitnet, ehsu@husc9.harvard.edu

The difference is mainly that there is a GS header at the beginning
of a GS font followed by the Macintosh type font.  But there is a difference
in the Macintosh part.  Mac's use high-order-byte first words and the GS
uses low-order-byte first words, so all the words in the Mac font get
their bytes flipped around.  If this byte-ordering is confusing here's an
example:
	You have a long word $01234567
	On a Mac (any 68000 machine) it would be stored in memory as
	01 23 45 67

	On a GS (or an Intel machine) it would be stored as:
	67 45 23 01

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    Jerry Penner	alberta!bode!jpenne	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada