Re: Format of IIgs Bitmap Fonts?

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

In article <20000419004858.19766.00002308@ng-ba1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt) wrote:
> 
> >I was just wondering, what is the format of IIgs bitmap fonts? Is it the
> >same as the format of an NFNT resource, or a FONT resource, on a Mac? Does
> >the auxtype tell the font ID and size value? Is there a program to convert
> >Mac bitmap fonts to IIgs bimap fonts?
> 
> You can convert Mac TrueType fonts to IIGS bitmap fonts using a
> program called Pointless from Shareware Solutions II.  The main
> reason you never hear about this Pointless capability is that with
> Pointless, you can use Mac TrueType fonts, so why convert?

Thanks for the info, but some of you aren't getting it. I wasn't talking
about TrueType fonts. I was talking about _bitmap_ fonts.

Either way, I already found a program to convert Mac bitmap fonts to IIgs
bitmap fonts, so my side of this thread is over.

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