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From: liwen@sbctri.sbc.com (Andy. Liwen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Adobe font conversion
Keywords: fonts
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.182139.7565@sbctri.sbc.com>
Date: 25 Feb 91 18:21:39 GMT
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Organization: Southwestern Bell, Technology Resources Inc., St.Louis, MO
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I am posting this for a co-worker so it may not demonstrate a "superior" level
of X understanding.  Please bear with me.

We have an enormous data base of published art work consisting of graphics and
text in ads.  The fonts used to create the ads were Adobe, Type I fonts.  We
have legal access to an enormous set of these fonts and many, _many_ ads that
use them.  We are trying to build Sun/OpenWindows based tool that reads the ad
file and renders it under X.

I am looking for some assistance in finding a Mac font conversion tool that can
take in Adobe Type I fonts and spit out Sun "folio" style fonts.  A workable
solution could be conversion to straight X bit mapped fonts, but we would loose
the ability of the X11/NeWS server to handle scaling.

Can anyone e-mail any suggestions to me?  Thanks.

//Andy Liwen

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Andrew B. Liwen                          Southwestern Bell Technology Resources
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