Re: Help with TT fonts PC-->IIgs

[jimwong@ruf.rice.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <CszDy0.JI@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
|> 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?

There is actually a shareware Macintosh application, TTConverter,
that can convert TrueType fonts between the Windows and Macintosh
formats. 

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@es.rice.edu)