Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!grdetil From: grdetil@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gilles R. Detillieux) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: PostScript conversions -- info plus questions Message-ID: <1991May17.151440.16816@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 17 May 91 15:14:40 GMT References: <1991May17.075033.20859@sq.sq.com> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 28 In <1991May17.075033.20859@sq.sq.com> lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes: >I have seen PostScript files in the following formats (both type 1 and 3). [stuff deleted] >So, how do we go from one to another? >DOS.pfb -> Unix.ps with pfb2ps (from alt.sources recently) > This ignores the pfm file, and does not generate the afm file. A few others asked questions about how to get afm files from pfm files. I still haven't found a way myself, other than running getafm.ps on the font. Anyone? (I'd like to be able to get the kern pairs, if present in the .pfm file.) >Mac.sit.bin --> Mac.rsrc with unsit, but then the resulting file contains > encrypted binary data after the "eexec", and can't be sent to a printer. > Any ideas? The sonata.cc.purdue.edu ftp site has a "Mac Font Resource Converter" program (mfrc.c) to do this. At the time I got it, it was under next/source/mac-font2next.shar.Z (I think), but the source directory has since been split up, so you'll have to look around for it. Although written on and for a NeXT, I think it'll work on other Unix boxes. (NeXT PS fonts are in plain ASCII files.) -- Gilles Detillieux Spinal Cord Research Centre or Dept. of Physiology, U. of Manitoba 770 Bannatyne Avenue, BMSB 401 Phone: (204)788-6766