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From: mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan)
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Subject: Making NeXT Font from PC Font
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I NEED THIS INFO FAST, PLEASE!

I have a graphics job to do in one day! The client is supplying
me with a Type 1 font in IBM format. He needs me to set it on 
paper, then print it. Apparently, the person has NO computer
experience at all.

OK...I have an 040 NeXTCube and a 286 AT-Clone. The NeXT is
attached to a NeXT printer, the 286 to an Okidata 9-pin (no help). 
Data transfer between the two machines will be via serial cable
(no ethernet terminators!). 

The NeXT requires a simple ASCII file for the outline font, and
a standard ASCII AFM file. My understanding is that I'll have to
do some weird things to make this work.

Question: Do I try to find an IBM that will save a plain PostScript
file to disk, then upload it to the NeXT, or do I attempt to convert
the font to the NeXT and do the work there? I have no experience with
any PC graphics packages, and I have no access to Windows or WordPerfect.

Please respond quickly, as this is due at the printer's by Friday 
morning. Aren't customers wonderful? ;-)

Thanks!

-- 
MikeC
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Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland
mikec@wam.umd.edu