Re: Help with TT fonts PC-->IIgs

[nraymond@k12.ucs.umass.edu (Nathan Raymond (Phillips Academy 94))]

In a previous article, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) says:

>In article <1994Jul13.214215.27024@miavx1>,
> <dbehrens@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> wrote:
>> I need help.  I would like to know how one could port True Type fonts
>> from a lousy PC to the wonderful IIgs (that's running Pointless 2.0.3).
>> The pointless manual tells how to take fonts from the mac, but no 
>> mention from the PC.  I am wondering this because I got a Font Pack
>> free from Microsoft (for buying their Word processor, I got it cheap too!)
>
>The following is hearsay, and may be completely wrong.  :-)
>
>There is a commercial application on the Mac called Metamorphosis Pro,
>which can turn Windows TrueType fonts into Macintosh ones.
>
>The main difference between Windows and Mac TT fonts is the Mac font
>has all of the font data in a resource, plus some additional resources
>which are required by the Mac system software (and Pointless).  The
>Windows TT font has the main part of the font data in the data fork.
>
>You have to generate the missing information when transforming a
>Windows TT font into a Mac one.  Going the other way is probably easier.
>
>
>Can anyone confirm the above information?
>-- 
>David Empson
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz
>Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

There are also at least 2 shareware TT converters for the Mac, called (aptly
enough) TTConverter 1.1 and Font Clerk 5.0.  I've had about 80% success with
translating Windows TT fonts I've downloaded from BBSs into Mac TT.

nathan
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