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- From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
- Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
- In-Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 12:12:48
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:29:57 GMT
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- > In article <ROLFL.93Jan26102735@ulrik.uio.no> rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
- >
- > It's a drawback that there's no simple way to convert bitmap (pk) fonts
- > to Textures fonts.
- >
- > Is there really a Textures font format, or is that just general Macintosh?
- > In that case it is somewhat amazing that no one has written a convertor.
- >
-
- It seems, tho I'm not certain, that the Textures font format is a font
- suitcase with the tfm stuck in the resource fork. The Mac must have the
- screen font and Textures must have the Textures font for each font used.
-
- You can create a Textures font from an afm file if you've got the screen
- font.
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