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From: woodside@ttidca.TTI.COM (George Woodside)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mac fonts to GDOS
Keywords: fonts
Message-ID: <3691@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 14:33:06 GMT
References: <959@ruuinf.UUCP>
Reply-To: woodside@ttidcb.tti.com (George Woodside)
Organization: Citicorp/TTI, Santa Monica
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In article <959@ruuinf.UUCP> markov@ruuinf.UUCP (dr.m.h. overmars) writes:
>Has anybody ever seen a program that converts Mac Fonts to GDOS fonts?

This feature is readily available in the program FONTZ! by NEOCEPT.

It will read and convert Mac fonts, DEGAS fonts, and a couple others,
to GDOS fonts. It also provides a powerful font editor. Be wary of one
thing when using FONTZ!, however: It adds three words of data to the
font file (if you let it). These words state the size of the pixel on
the output device. They are not a standard part of a GDOS font file, 
and will cause some less robust programs to crash when the unexpected
data is encountered. FONTZ! will allow you to edit a font without
inserting the size data, but it won't allow you to take it out, once
it has been inserted.

Other than that, FONTZ! is a very nice program. It has a few minor bugs,
but nothing worth making an issue of.
-- 
*George R. Woodside - Citicorp/TTI - Santa Monica, CA 
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