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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NFNT TO FONT CONVERSION PROGRAM
Message-ID: <1990Feb20.183209.15762@intercon.com>
Date: 20 Feb 90 18:32:09 GMT
References: <983@xroads.UUCP>
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Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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In article <983@xroads.UUCP>, aman@xroads.UUCP (Chris Minshall) writes:
> There is a program available that converts FONT format to NFNT
> so I think that the reverse is not only possible but should be available,

There's one main problem, which is that the format of an NFNT is a superset
of a FONT.  What this means in practice is that to convert from a FONT to
an NFNT is simply a matter of changing the resource type (since every valid
FONT is a valid NFNT), but converting in the other direction is not always
possible.  In most cases, changing the resource type back to FONT will work,
but you should be sure to check things out after doing so, in case the font
in question really uses some of the new features available in an NFNT.

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

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