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- Subject: Re: Executor/DOS problems handling Mac fonts
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- In-reply-to: kyle@rtoads.com's message of 10 Apr 1996 08:29:19 GMT
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- To: kyle@rtoads.com
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 02:44:13 -0600
- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- >>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Silfer <kyle@rtoads.com> writes:
- In article <4kfrgv$ngg@sloth.swcp.com> kyle@rtoads.com (Kyle Silfer) writes:
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- Kyle> I convert a lot of Mac fonts for my PC, and prior to
- Kyle> Executor, I would use Mac-ette (a good Mac disk reader) to
- Kyle> copy them over before running some conversion utilities.
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- Kyle> Fonts copied via Executor/DOS, however, give me errors when
- Kyle> I attempt to convert them. The same font copied via Mac-ette
- Kyle> works fine. This leads me to believe that the resource fork
- Kyle> (which is where the goods reside in a Mac font) is not
- Kyle> handled with 100% accuracy for this particular purpose.
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- Hmmm... So you're copying fonts from the Mac to the PC and you then
- use some conversion program that wants the resource fork? I don't
- know what Mac-ette does, but Executor doesn't give you the resource
- fork in a file by itself. The datafork is in a file by itself, but
- the resource fork is combined in a file that also contains the type
- information and a map of what information is stored where. You can
- strip the first 512 bytes of the %file and then you're left with just
- the resource fork.
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- Could that explain the problem?
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- Kyle> Anybody have a similar difficulty with fonts?
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- --Cliff
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