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From: spage@cup.portal.com (S spage Page)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.fonts
Subject: using a Mac bitmap font in PostScript
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Date: 3 Jun 89 23:11:13 GMT
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I need to use Mac bitmap fonts in Word 5.0 for the PC.  Clearly this is
possible since the Macintosh can print bitmap fonts on a PostScript printer.
Has anyone converted a Macintosh bitmap font to a generic downloadable
PostScript font??  I've taken a look at LaserPrep and the Mac output, but
it's pretty scary.  Maybe with a working distill.ps I could figure it out??

To forestall some of the obvious answers:
   o	I don't want outline versions of these fonts, I'm happy with the
	pixels.
   o	I know that some of the Mac's bitmap smoothing code is propriet-
	ary (eexec?).  I don't care whether the downloaded PostScript version
	is smoothed or not.
   o	I have Fontastic Plus AND Fontographer, but short of tracing every
	pixel in the bitmaps with PostScript boxes, they don't provide any
	bitmap->PostScript conversion.

One thing I haven't tried is converting each bitmap glyph to an EPS file,
then trying to craft a PostScript font out of the EPSF.  Aldus Freehand (a
really superb program for figures and diagrams by the way -- the best PC
drawing package I've found, even though you have to buy a Mac to run it!) can
do the former, and Altsys sells a program called KeyMaster which creates a
font out of EPSF images.  However, this seems overly complicated, and for some
reason KeyMaster limits you to 16 EPSF glyphs per font.

Thanks, I really appreciate your help and pointers.
=S