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- Using Adobe Type on Professional Page
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- Part 1: Obtaining Macintosh Screen Fonts and .AFMs
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- Obviously, to convert something, you need to get the something.
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- UnStuffIt 0.9, is a program designed to ease the problem of getting
- Macintosh files to your Amiga. On the Mac, StuffIt 1.5.1 is used for
- archiving files for fast transmission on phone lines. Your output service
- bureau should have a modem, and if they want your business they'll let you
- download screen fonts.
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- The problem is, UnSuuffIt, or UnSIT as its called, cannot handle certain
- compression routines used by StuffIt 1.5.1. The main problem is 'RLE'
- compression, or pre-compression. If possible, see to it that they aren't
- using a version of StuffIt that uses RLE compression. Huffman or LZW is
- fine, though, or if you get a newer version of UnSIT than that's okay too.
- If they don't, tell them to use NO compression whatsoever. UnSIT will
- unpack the files quickly if no compression is used, but this results in long
- transmission times. The price you pay to be Mac compatible...
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- Make sure that your bureau's host BBS or whatever, is using MacBinary for
- transfers. It doesn't matter if it's XMODEM, XMODEM-CRC, ZMODEM, or
- whatever protocol you have in common, just make sure that the place your
- d-loading from uses a MacBinary counterpart of that protocol. There is no
- effect on actual transmission, but the host will send a 128 byte header (The
- MacBinary header) with the file, and that gets saved. UnSIT needs to see
- that header to properly work. MacBinary is the file format used when Mac
- files reside on other file systems (such as MS-DOS or AmigaDOS).
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- Using UnStuffIt
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- UnSIT will then let you unarc the file you just downloaded. Most .SITs that
- come from service bureaus have two kinds of files: 1) .AFM files and 2) Font
- Resource files. the .AFMs are used by ConvertAFM to make PPage .metric
- files, and the font resource files are used by MacFont's UnpackNFNT program
- to create Amiga screen fonts. Just say:
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- UnSIT x filename.sit
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- and the .SIT will unpack into the current directory.
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- You can download anything using this, but we're intrested in fonts for now.
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- Next file please...
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