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- >>>>> "Karsten" == Karsten Schneeberger <ks@fotodesign.spacenet.de> writes:
- In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960413101713.553B-100000@fotodesign.spacenet.de> Karsten Schneeberger <ks@fotodesign.spacenet.de> writes:
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- Karsten> On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
- >> 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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- Karsten> Can you just tell me how to do this with Linux ? I'll try
- Karsten> this.
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- dd bs=1b skip=1 < %file > resource_fork
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- That tells the "dd" program to copy from %file to resource_file and to
- use a block size of one block (i.e. 512 bytes) and to skip the first
- block when copying.
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- Karsten> I can ftp the font conversion program to ARDI if you
- Karsten> like. This program converts between mac and pc ps-fonts
- Karsten> and I think that all it does is to strip some bytes off
- Karsten> the mac-outline font to generate the pc ps-font *.pfb .
-
- How about trying the above first and letting us know if that works?
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- Karsten> There are other conversion programs to convert the
- Karsten> bitmapped fonts to the pc screen fonts *.pfm - but I was
- Karsten> not happy with the converted screen fonts (they look
- Karsten> ugly, bad kerning). I prefer using the original *.pfm
- Karsten> screen fonts; they are stored on every mac&pc font CD
- Karsten> along with the suitcases that contain the mac bitmapped
- Karsten> fonts.
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- Karsten> --- Karsten Schneeberger
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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