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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS Fonts
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Date: 26 Jan 91 13:10:25 GMT
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From daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang):

> Mac fonts are very similar to GS fonts. I think the GS fonts have
> an extra header at the beginning. There is supposedly a program
> called Font Munger that will convert Mac fonts to GS fonts, but
> I've never seen it around.

    The hi-byte/low-bytes are also reversed.  I think the GS stores word
values as lo/hi while the Mac uses hi/lo.  The easiest way I've found to
convert Mac fonts to GS fonts involves either a2fx or HFSLink, and Stephen
Chick's Resource Spy.  Use a2fx to convert just the resource fork of a
Font/DA Mover font "suitcase" file.  It will be stored on the ProDOS disk as a
binary file.  Then use Resource Spy to open up the file, double-click on the
FONT resource, and pick a font to convert.  It will even give you a window
with a sample string in the appropriate font.

Brian T. Tao  {taob@pnet91.cts.com} ||  Computer guru?  Someone who got
University of Metro Toronto         ||  their computer a couple of weeks
Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8         *B-) ||  before you did.  (Alvin Toffler)