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- From: 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: TT Fonts: Wind 3.1 <--> Mac Sys7
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.142819.11602@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 19:28:18 GMT
- References: <Bx9ADw.8tw@nic.umass.edu> <6NOV199207055771@gergo.tamu.edu>
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- In article <6NOV199207055771@gergo.tamu.edu>, dave@gergo.tamu.edu (Dave Martin) writes:
- > In article <Bx9ADw.8tw@nic.umass.edu>, qc@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Quentin J Clark) writes...
- > }I need to translate TT fonts from PC Windows 3.1 [a .TTF file] to
- > }my mac running sys7. Is this possible? How is it done?
- >
- > There is a utility on SUMEX (/info-mac/util/tt-converter-13.hqx, I believe)
- > which does a so-so job of converting both ways. Any of the commercial font
- > utilites (Fontographer, Metamorphosis, FontMonger, etc.) should now be able
- > to do that as well. Ares, makers of FontMonger, have just come out with a new
- > utility called FontHopper, which simply translates between Mac & Windows
- > TrueType, PS Type 1, and PS Type 3 formats, in batch mode if desired.
- > TT-Converter, above, seems to be missing something -- I could print text
- > entered in a translated Win31 TT font from PageMaker with no problem, but
- > Word substituted Courier every time.
-
- I've had problems with some TT fonts converted to ttf (Win3) format being
- ignored by Windoze (can you imagine how frustrating is it to dl a bunch of
- fonts, convert them, and have Win only recognise maybe two or three? Grrr...)
- but I've never had problems vice-versa. Also I've had problems converting
- Chicago and New York to Win3...they convert and are recognised, but Win3 chokes
- on 'em later... Mostly it's just luck. Some fonts, such as Phaedrus, won't
- convert.
-
- Speaking of Phaedrus, why does it make our LaserWriter IIg choke? I had a nice
- letter I was ready to print, and the IIg stopped after 1 page and gave some
- weird error...any ideas?
-
- >
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- > - Dave Martin - Geochemical & Environmental Research Group, Texas A&M -
- > - DAVE@GERGA[GERGO,GERGI].TAMU.EDU - BROOKS@TAMVXOCN.BITNET - AOL:DBM -
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