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From: david@looking.UUCP (David Rowley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GDOS Fonts
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Date: Wed, 12-Nov-86 09:58:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 12 09:58:35 1986
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Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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Now that GDOS is finally surfacing, and gives the ST access to all the goodies
it should have had in the first place :-), there is a slight problem.  The
fonts that come with the developers release of GDOS are horrible !  And
there are only a few of them...  So we need a good source of fonts from
somewhere... hmm... which well-known micro could we borrow fonts from ?
How about a Mac to GDOS font conversion utility so that we could get
at all the good public domain fonts available for that 'more mature' machine.
I wrote a Mac resource file disassembler awhile back, but have since lost it,
but I remember enough about the mac fonts to know that it wouldn't be hard
to convert mac fonts to GDOS format.

I would be quite willing to do it, but alas, I do not have access to a Mac
anymore, nor do I have access to the resource file / font resource /
format for the Mac.   If someone would be kind enough to send me the formats
and a sample Mac font, I would be most greatful.

As we are on the topic, what are the legalities of porting fonts from one
format to another ?  If someone buys a disk of fonts for the Mac, does that
give him the right to convert them into GDOS format and use them ?  I
presume that public domain fonts are no problem.

Cheers,

David Rowley
Looking Glass Software
Waterloo, Ontario
(519) 884-7473
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