Subject: Re: Fontpimp : GS->Windows?
From: brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)
Date: Fri, Aug 21, 1998 12Ç9 ¡
Message-id: <49863223-980821040900@rook.wa.com>


 MP raised the cup and toasted:

 M| Has anyone been able to convert GS truetype fonts to Windows
  | truetypes? The only way I have been able to get a GS truetype font
  | to list on fontpimp's conversion menu is to make it a binary file.
  | Fontpimp then complains that the files is corrupted or not a true
  | type font.

GS TrueTypes aren't supposed to list under the Convert menu.

To list GS TrueTypes, try the Edit function.  Convert only sees text or
binary files that may be PC TrueTypes, and won't list GS TrueTypes.
Meanwhile, the Edit function only lists GS TrueTypes, not PC TrueTypes.
I tried something out last night upon reading your question...

=A friend sent me PCtt ExocetHeavy.  I converted it to GStt ages ago.

=I took the GStt, used the Edit function, and it listed all the GStt's.
Saved it as a PCtt under a different name.  All is well.

=I took the new PCtt, used the Convert function, and it listed that
PCtt so I converted it and saved it elsewhere.  All is well.

Try again, and let us (me or ericlob@cris.com) know what's up.

And BTW, I've never actually used the PC TrueTypes that FontPimp
generates on a Windoze machine (don't know if Tom has done much of it
either) so caviat emptor on that.  Don't forget to pay your fees! :)

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