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Article #263Re: Win 3.1 upgrade and True Type
From: Tom Haapanen
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 14:12
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 14:12
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dwebster@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Webster) writes:
> Now that I have TrueType fonts on both PC and MAC platforms, can
> anyone tell me if (1) the font formats for the two platforms are
> compatible, and (2) if so, how to transfer fonts from one platform to
> the other.
1. The fonts are compatible.
2a. To transfer a Mac TrueType font to the PC, delete the resource fork of
the file, and copy the data fork over to the PC. That's it!
2b. I don't know what you'd need to put in the resource fork in order to
use a PC TrueType font on the Mac.
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!watserv1!wes.on.ca!tomh From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) Subject: Re: Win 3.1 upgrade and True Type Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 14:12:28 GMT Message-ID: <1992Apr06.141228.21736@wes.on.ca> References: <3493@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Lines: 17