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Resource -> Data fork help
Wow. I've finally found a Mac --> PC cross-platform problem
Executor can't seem to help me with, so here's an appeal for a (preferrably
freeware) solution to a small problem.
THE PROBLEM: I need to convert a Mac TrueType font to a Windows TrueType
font. I have a DOS program which does this. Mac TT fonts
are stored in resource forks. If I take the Mac font
and copy it to a FAT volume in Executor, I get a 0-byte
data fork-file (fontname, we'll call it), and a good-sized
%fontname file (~400k, say). The problem is that
the DOS program can't find the font info. in this file
(usually it can detect what kind of info. is in a file),
I think because the %fontname file has, in addition to
the resources, the finder information. I need a way of
getting JUST the resource fork, nothing else, into a
DOS file.
Ideas? Thanks. Please e-mail suggestions, files to look for on Info-MAC,
etc.
Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu
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