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- From: shuchart@fas.harvard.edu (Scott Shuchart)
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- Subject: Resource -> Data fork help
- Date: 14 Mar 1996 06:15:51 GMT
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- Wow. I've finally found a Mac --> PC cross-platform problem
- Executor can't seem to help me with, so here's an appeal for a (preferrably
- freeware) solution to a small problem.
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- THE PROBLEM: I need to convert a Mac TrueType font to a Windows TrueType
- font. I have a DOS program which does this. Mac TT fonts
- are stored in resource forks. If I take the Mac font
- and copy it to a FAT volume in Executor, I get a 0-byte
- data fork-file (fontname, we'll call it), and a good-sized
- %fontname file (~400k, say). The problem is that
- the DOS program can't find the font info. in this file
- (usually it can detect what kind of info. is in a file),
- I think because the %fontname file has, in addition to
- the resources, the finder information. I need a way of
- getting JUST the resource fork, nothing else, into a
- DOS file.
-
- Ideas? Thanks. Please e-mail suggestions, files to look for on Info-MAC,
- etc.
-
- Scott Shuchart
- shuchart@fas.harvard.edu
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