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From: craigf@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Federighi)
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Subject: Re: Mac --> NeXT Font Solutions
Summary: an easier way to convert Mac PS fonts to the NeXT
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Date: 30 Jan 91 19:32:53 GMT
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In his posting on this subject, Michael D. Callaghan proposed editing a
Postscript output file for a document containing usages of the desired
fonts in order to get at the outline information.

It turns out that there's a handy little program to directly translate
postscript fonts on the Mac to the NeXT that makes this much easier.

Here's a little explanation from its README file:
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	"Can I use Adobe postscript fonts I purchased for the
	Mac and port them over to the cube, and if so, how?

	The answer to this question is, in practice, no."
					-- NeXT Answers, Apr '90

But now you can, very easily with this program!

Entitled "mfrc", for Macintosh Font Resource Converter, it takes
Type 1 PostScript fonts and produces a version usable by the NeXT.
(The fonts must have the accompanying AFM [Adobe Font Metric] file
for it to be recognized by the cube.)

The font can be transferred from the Macintosh to the NeXT by
whatever means available; "mfrc" understands the MacBinary format.
The quickest way to install a font from the Mac is to transfer the
printer-downloadable version of the font (Macintosh file type
'LWFN') and the AFM file (type 'TEXT') in MacBinary format.  After
the transfer, running "mfrc" will convert the downloadable font to
a standard PostScript font format, and strip the MacBinary header
off the AFM file.

....
"mfrc" Information:
Program written by Mark Harris -- Documentation by Eddy J. Gurney
<mark@monitor.plymouth.mi.us>     <eddy@jafus.mi.org>
                                  Aim your flamethrowers this way,
                                  not at Mark! (I'm taking the heat)
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I've tried the program and it works great.  Just kermit or X-modem over
the MacBinary version of the fonts files, run mfrc on them, and you're done.
(You still need to get the .afm files)
You should be able to find this at one of the various anonymous ftp sites.

Hope this helps,

Craig Federighi
craigf@icsi.berkeley.edu