Re: Shaston Font

[Jerry <blip_awanderin_blip@blipyahoo.ca>]

Alex Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> anybody got a working version of the Shaston font for use on the Mac? 
> You can download it here:
>
> http://www.theory.org/~strthrwr/fonts/free/index.php?mode=bitmap
>
> but unfortunately, MacOS X reports that this particular bitmap is 
> orphaned from its parent Postscript font, which means I can't export 
> layouts created with InDesign to PDF or anything else for that matter, 
> using that font.
>
> Anyone made their own Shaston font for use with modern systems from this 
> venerable IIgs system typeface? Or does anyone know how to effectively 
> fix a bitmap font to stop making OS X think it's orphaned from a 
> Postscript font?

Will someone with a Macintosh unstuff this file and zip it up?  I'd like 
to see what FontForge can do with it.

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