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- From: khm@powell.cs.jt.dk (Kurt Hangaard Marcussen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Font Conversion
- Message-ID: <khm.724341678@powell>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 14:01:18 GMT
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- jimomura@tndb.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
-
-
- > I have a question from another Amiga user. He has a number
- >of IBM fonts with .PFB and .PFM extensions. Is there a way to
- >convert these to Amiga fonts? Apparently "Font Manager 1.0" will
- >display them but not convert them.
-
- >--
-
- >Jim Omura, (416) 652-3880
- >'jimomura@lsuc'
-
- Hi Jim
-
- Yes, there is a way to convert these fonts to Amiga bitmapped
- fonts. You need only the .pfb - files. These contain Adobe
- Type 1 fonts. If you got these files from the MS-DOS world,
- the file names will be wrong. You need to rename the files on
- your Amiga to the name of the font contained in the file. Then
- you go to your local Fred Fish PD dealer and get the disk
- with the latest version of a program named Post (version 1.7
- I think). This extremely useful and well made program is a
- full-blown PostScript interpreter for the Amiga. What you
- need to get your job done is NOT the interpreter itself, but
- a utility named MkBmap (Make Bitmap) which uses the
- "post.library" accompanying Post. The MkBmap program is
- also on a Fish disk, but I don't remember if it's the same
- as the one containing the Post program.
-
- Anyway, when you've installed the post.library in LIBS: and
- your renamed font files (NO .pfb extension) in PSFonts:, you
- can generate your bitmapped Amiga fonts using the MkBmap
- program.
-
- Good luck!
-
- Kurt Marcussen
-