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Subject:Font Question From:"Tony A. Emond" <tonye -at- OPTIMAL-ROBOTICS -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 7 Nov 1997 14:32:41 -0500
Hi... I noticed an inaccuracy in one answer to the fonts issue -- you can't
just take a TT font from a Mac and put it on a PC, as the font info in Mac
TT fonts is stored in the resource fork of the file, which gets wiped out
as soon as you transfer said font to a PC-compatible disk. You may,
however, be able to translate the font between Mac and PC formats by using
the TTConverter utility, which is available for the Mac only. I've used it
to translate many a Windows font to Mac format, and have had good success
with it.
