| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
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I was reading a review of Fontz recently and noted that it has the
ability to convert mac/amiga fonts to GDOS format. Has anyone
done/tried this? (If so, are you willing to share? :^) )
The reviewer said there were a large number of pd fonts available
for the mac, Is this true (you Spectre/Sac/Alladin users should know)?
and if so, are they available via the Net?
I'd be willing to get Fontz specifically for its conversion capability
if this were the case...
Kent
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| 556.1 | lots of Macintosh fonts on 'the Net' | REGENT::LOMICKA | Roy Lomicka | Wed Aug 02 1989 21:33 | 111 |
You have to do the usual binhex and stuffit procedure on a Macintosh (or
on a Macintosh emulator on the ST, I suppose) to extract the data from
these files.
$ dir rt95::mac$fonts:
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]10_HI-TECH_FONTS.STUFFIT;1
111 11-FEB-1988 20:56:10.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_AVANT_GARDE_SCREEN_FONTS.PACKIT;1
192 14-OCT-1988 22:01:49.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_COURIER_FONT_10-87_VERSION.STUFFIT;1
135 17-JAN-1988 12:25:54.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_COURIER_SCREEN_FONTS.PACKIT;1
135 15-OCT-1988 17:34:43.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_HELVETICA_FONT_10-87_VERSION.STUFFIT;1
192 17-JAN-1988 13:05:55.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_HELVETICA_SCREEN_FONTS.PACKIT;1
192 15-OCT-1988 19:11:41.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_LUBALIN_SCREEN_FONTS.STUFFIT;1
171 14-OCT-1988 21:50:16.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_NEW_CENTURY_FONT_10-87_VERSION.STUFFIT;1
162 17-JAN-1988 12:51:40.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_NEW_CENTURY_SCREEN_FONTS.PACKIT;1
171 21-OCT-1988 19:16:34.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_PALATINO_FONT_10-87_VERSION.STUFFIT;1
153 17-JAN-1988 12:40:04.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_SOUVENIR_SCREEN_FONTS.PACKIT;1
168 14-OCT-1988 21:37:01.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_STENCIL_FONT.BINARY;1
42 29-APR-1988 18:19:14.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_SYMBOLS_SCREEN_FONTS.PACKIT;1
33 15-OCT-1988 17:32:08.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_TIMES_FONT_10-87_VERSION.STUFFIT;1
159 17-JAN-1988 13:20:43.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ADOBE_TIMES_SCREEN_FONTS.PACKIT;1
159 15-OCT-1988 17:21:47.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ALDERNEY_FONT.STUFFIT;1
234 16-FEB-1988 18:51:27.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ALISON-SCRIPT_LASER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
72 2-SEP-1988 21:35:09.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]APPLE_OUTLINE_FONTS_STACK.STUFFIT;1
801 20-MAY-1989 21:58:05.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ASCII-18_FONT.BINARY;1
30 20-JUL-1987 23:04:43.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ATLANTIC_CITY_GAMBLING_FONT.PACKIT;1
39 18-APR-1988 19:03:50.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]BILLS_DINGBATS_LASER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
87 8-MAR-1989 20:30:40.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]BOSTON_I_AND_II_FONTS.PACKIT;1
129 25-OCT-1986 01:41:22.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]CLAIRVAUX_III_FONT.STUFFIT;1
273 23-JUL-1988 00:50:01.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]CLASSICA_HEAVY-LASERWRITER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
57 16-AUG-1988 21:50:33.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]CLASSICA_ITALIC-LASERWRITER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
51 16-AUG-1988 21:54:13.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]CLASSICA_ROMAN-LASERWRITER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
51 16-AUG-1988 21:57:41.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]COCACOLA-LASER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
30 15-FEB-1989 19:49:41.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]CODE_39-POSTSCRIPT_BAR_CODE_FONT_V2.STUFFIT;1
36 27-SEP-1988 22:50:07.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]COLUMBIA_FONT.STUFFIT;1
240 27-JUL-1988 19:30:32.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]DAFONT_V3_1.BINARY;1
57 15-SEP-1988 19:09:52.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]DALI_FONT.STUFFIT;1
51 2-SEP-1988 21:23:48.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]DIGITAL_LOGO_FONT_UPDATE.STUFFIT;1
45 13-MAR-1989 18:27:07.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]ELECTRONICS_AND_DRAFTING_FONT.PACKIT;1
246 12-OCT-1987 00:42:14.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]FLINT_LASERWRITER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
81 28-AUG-1988 12:54:47.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]FONTMASTER_88-FONT_EDITOR.STUFFIT;1
129 15-APR-1988 00:18:18.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]FONTSY.STUFFIT;1
78 9-AUG-1988 19:08:53.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]FONT_DISPLAY_V5_4_4A.STUFFIT;1
285 12-JUL-1989 21:07:41.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]FONT_FINDER_V3_0B0.STUFFIT;1
144 2-SEP-1988 21:54:25.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]FONT_INFO_AND_MGMT_DAS.STUFFIT;1
192 24-JUN-1989 22:02:36.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]FONT_WIZARD.STUFFIT;1
72 4-FEB-1989 13:55:43.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]IBM_BBS_GRAPHICS_FONT.STUFFIT;1
9 19-MAY-1988 19:51:50.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]MAC_II_COLOR_FONTS_DEMO.STUFFIT;1
126 7-DEC-1987 21:10:03.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]NEON_24_FONT.PACKIT;1
15 6-AUG-1987 18:18:20.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]N_FONT_UTILITY_V1_01.STUFFIT;1
66 5-NOV-1988 22:38:30.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]OR_FONTS.STUFFIT;1
54 18-DEC-1988 17:52:05.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]PALENCIA_FONT_V2_3.STUFFIT;1
285 24-JAN-1988 13:54:55.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]PENSACOLA_FONT.STUFFIT;1
30 28-JAN-1989 21:12:38.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]PRISMA_LASER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
48 14-MAY-1989 20:39:10.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]PROGRAMMERS_FONT.BINARY;1
57 23-APR-1988 16:41:43.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]STYMIE_LASER_FONT.STUFFIT;1
54 14-MAY-1989 20:41:18.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]VARITYPE_FONTMASTER_DA_V1_2.STUFFIT;1
204 25-MAR-1989 16:38:31.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
RT95::MAC$ROOT:[FONTS]YORK_FONT.STUFFIT;1
336 29-JUL-1988 20:13:38.00 (RWE,RWED,,R)
Total of 52 files, 6969 blocks.
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| 556.2 | Is there any other way? | UKCSSE::KEANE | Thu Aug 03 1989 06:51 | 9 | |
hi jeff
I suppose stuffit is the mac equiv of Arc??, Is there any simple way of
reducing these files to a binary with a vms or St utility ?
Pat_WHO_HASNT_GOT_A MAC,
(this seems to be the new fashion in signoffs)
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| 556.3 | There are two of us | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Thu Aug 03 1989 13:32 | 2 |
I'm Jeff. The author of .1 was Roy. | |||||
| 556.4 | Maybe a Good Apple (user) could help, too. | CADSYS::DALTON | Cereal Killer. | Thu Aug 03 1989 14:01 | 13 |
Re: .2
Maybe if there's no equivalent of stuffit/etc. on the ST or VMS,
some kind person who has a mac emulator or a mac could unstuff 'em
and make them available to us (us being the atari STer's w/ GDOS)...
So we could convert them to GDOS format? I don't have any mac access
either...
Re: .1 thanks for the listing, Roy.
Kent
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| 556.5 | Did anybody say Macintosh? | IOWAIT::MESSENGER | Enough of this stuff, Spuds! | Thu Aug 03 1989 18:56 | 4 |
I have a Mac 2048Ke and two flavors of Mac emulators (Magic Sac and
Spectre 128)... and -- I even have Fontz! I've never tried any of this,
but I'm willing to try, if you're interested.
- hbm
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| 556.6 | Can I help with the work! | UKCSSE::KEANE | Fri Aug 04 1989 07:09 | 16 | |
Hi,
I would be very grateful if you could have a go,
Unfortunately, I would think that there is an awful lot of work
involved in converting these fonts. I have a Font editor too,
Font-Plus, so I would like to share the conversion load.
If you could destuff or whatever you call it from the MAc format. and
rearc the mac fonts, I will pull a few over the net and see how I get
on doing the conversions!
If you agree give me a mail,
Pat Keane.
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| 556.7 | The software does most of it, right? | CADSYS::DALTON | Cereal Killer. | Fri Aug 04 1989 13:35 | 10 |
I willing to help too (I'll have to get Fontz first though)! It might not
be too much work, depending on whether the mac has bit mapped or scalable
fonts. If they're bit mapped there will already be a bunch of different
point sizes created and they'll just have to be moved to the GDOS
format (is this right?). If they have to be scaled there will be lots
of touch up work required!
Kent
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| 556.8 | IOWAIT::MESSENGER | Enough of this stuff, Spuds! | Fri Aug 04 1989 16:13 | 14 | |
Re: .6
> If you could destuff or whatever you call it from the MAc format. and
> rearc the mac fonts, I will pull a few over the net and see how I get
> on doing the conversions!
The Mac world is stranger than you think; their files have a
complicated internal structure... this can be like block-copying an
RMS indexed file to an Ultrix system and expecting to be able to read
it. I'm going to have to do quite a bit of experimentation before I get
a process that can actually _do_ this (move a font file from Mac-land
to ST-land and have Fontz! understand it).
- hbm
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| 556.9 | LEDS::ACCIARDI | Fri Aug 04 1989 21:26 | 37 | ||
I've got a few dozen or so Amiga bit-mapped fonts that I'd be willing
to place in ARC format (the ST uses that identical ARC format as the
Amiga.
The Amiga structures it's FONTS: directory in what may be an unusual
way. The directory FONTS must have in it further subdirectories
with specific font sizes stored there. In the main FONT directory,
there must be a 'fontname.font' descriptor file that corresponds to
each font type.
For example, here's a typical directory structure...
FONTS:
Pearl (DIR)
8
9
10
Ruby (DIR)
12
14
16
Diamond (DIR)
13
15
16
17
Pearl.font
Ruby.font
Diamond.font
Any takers?
Ed.
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| 556.10 | CADSYS::DALTON | Cereal Killer. | Mon Aug 07 1989 13:40 | 7 | |
Re: -1
Sure, just give a pointer when you get them u/l'ed. Thanks for your
help!
Kent
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| 556.11 | some questions ... | MANIS2::IS | Thu Nov 23 1989 18:02 | 20 | |
sorry, but this topic is a little bit weired, so I have to ask:
You are talking about a program which converts Mac-fonts to GDOS
Fonts, am I right?
Is this program PD or Shareware? If yes, Why doesn't anyone give
a pointer to copy it from?
If the program is able to copy Mac-fonts, how does it expect the
data? in atari raw data format? this souldn't be a problem: all
Macs having a FDHD (High density Floppy Drive) are able to write
and read 720 k atari disks, so all we need to know is:
does this program expect just the data in a file, or is there anything
else required?
Bernhard
a Mac owner who sometimes uses an Atari (and other stuff)
(just to have a look at different machines and GUI's)
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| 556.12 | It's commercial | FORTSC::MESSENGER | Suspended in Ethernet | Mon Nov 27 1989 16:14 | 9 |
Re: .12
> You are talking about a program which converts Mac-fonts to GDOS
> Fonts, am I right?
If you are refering to "Fontz!", yes, that is what we're talking about.
It is NOT public domain, it is a commercial program from a company
called "Neocept".
- hbm
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