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From: tdrga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Todd Drga)
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Subject: Using Mac fonts
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Date: 19 May 91 22:49:34 GMT
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My questions to the net:

What do I have to do to use some of the Mac fonts that I have found archived
on various FTP servers?  What program will convert the to GDOS (or other)
fonts that I can use?  I am interested in using the fonts for DTP and screen
fonts.

I am ignorant when it comes to Mac file structure, systems, etc.  The doc
files for some of the fonts mention things like 'Font DA Mover file'
'suitcase file' 'resource forks' etc.  what do these mean *to me* as an
Atari user?  How easy is it to convert these various file types into something
my machine can read/use?

Are there UnBinHex and UnStuffIt programs for the ST or UNIX?  Or do I have
to find a Mac to unarchive these files?  (I have a general idea what BinHex
and StuffIt do - they are comparable to uuencode and ARC/LZH, respectively 
- or is this not the case)

Thanks,


Todd
(E-mail replies if you have to explain something really trivial that I got 
wrong.  Otherwise, post if it is of general interest)


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