Re: Mac fonts -> GS?

[mjensen2@wpo.uwsuper.edu (MATTHEW L. JENSEN)]

In article <3fktm1$3na@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> mcafee@umich.edu (Sean Michael McAfee) writes:

>I think this question was dealt with in this newsgroup recently, so I'll
>keep it short.  How does one transfer a Mac font to the IIGS?  I tried
>transferring one font directly from a Mac hard disk to a ProDOS floppy,
>but it wound up with an unknown file type, and when I manually changed
>it to "font", I got errors when trying to use it.

With a TrueType font, you just copy the file and use it with pointless.  For 
bitmap fonts (the original kind), it is more involved.  I believe that you 
must copy the file from the Mac FONT resource, and then reverse the byte 
orders in all of the integers in the font header.  I've seen quite a few 
programs which will do this, however.  One was a Shareware font program 
called "Fontasm".  I'm sure that there are others, too.

>Come to think of it, that brings to mind another thing that's been
>bugging me lately.  The Macintoshes here at the University of Michigan
>are able to recognize ProDOS disks, and display them with an icon of
>a disk with a "][" on top.  Is this the result of some kind of ProDOS
>FST installed in the System folder, or something else?  In any case, if
>Apple Computer is as hell-bent on forgetting about the Apple ][ line as
>I've gathered by reading this newsgroup and other sources, why would they
>bother with something like this?

Macs don't have "FST"s exactly.  I believe it comes from some kind of wacky 
INIT that also lets them read IBM disks.  IBM-compat. disks placed in a Mac 
have an icon with "PC" or "DOS" or something over them, too.  It's just 
supposed to make it easier to differentiate.

-Matt
mjensen2@student.uwsuper.edu