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įontCollector, PalmFontConv(erter), FontSmootherįontCollector is a free open source program by Dr. It can in some cases help clean up font cache inconsistencies.

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Mark Douma's free utility (2004) for Mac OS X which used to be called Font Cache Cleaner.

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Mac PC font conversion was nicely explained explained by Dieter Schumacher. įree program for the Mac for some font conversion to/from PC.

showfond: dump some information about the macintosh font resources (FOND, NFNT, sfnt) found in the file.frombin: Will unwrap a macbinary file.

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tobin: Will wrap up a series of files into a macbinary wrapper.dfont2res: convert a font from the new macintosh dfont format to the old resource fork format.ufond: takes UNIX font files and wraps them up into a mac resource and creates a family for them which in turn get wrapped up in a macbinary or binhex file.Fondu will look through the resource fork for the following resources: POST (Postscript fonts), SFNT (TT, OT fonts), NFNT/FONT (bitmap fonts), and FOND (family information). The input files may be either macbinary files (.bin), binhex files (.hqx), bare mac resource forks or data fork resource files (.dfont, used by Mac OS/X). fondu: Fondu will read a series of mac files, check their resource forks and extract all font related items into seperate files.George Williams has a number of free UNIX utilities related to Mac font files: Headed by George Williams, the creator of pfaedit (now FontForge). Ī series of (free open source code) programs to interconvert between mac fonts (and FONDs) and unix font formats.

#TRANSTYPE FONT HINTING PRO#

Combination of Fog, FogLamp and TransType Pro allows to build Fog-based font-editing environment which can generate OpenType fonts in both flavors as well as any other font format. FogLamp is available separately (for both platforms) and in bundles with Fontographer and TransType Pro.

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This FontLab software converts Fontographer database files (versions 3 and 4 are supported) to FontLab files. For hacker types, note that most of these things are freely available for UNIX platforms. Some say Refont (free, DOS) and Wrefont (25USD, Windows) are better, but I disagree-FMP includes TFM related commands, for example. Adjust glyph sidebearings and advance widths, extract sub-fonts, merge glyph sets from two fonts, add new composite characters, convert between Macintosh and IBM PC format, convert between different metric file formats (AFM, PFM, TFM, SCR, MET), etc Includes PFAtoAFM, PFMtoAFM, PFBtoMAC (PC type 1 to Mac type 1), MACtoPFA (Mac type 1 to UNIX type 1), AFMtoSCR, SCRtoAFM, REENCODE, RENAMECH, MERGEPFA, SUBFONT, COMPOSIT, SIDEBEAR, TRANSFRM, SAFESEAC, AFMtoPFM, AFMtoTFM, TFMtoAFM, PFAtoPFB, PFBtoPFB, TFMtoMET, METtoTFM, BINtoHEX, HEXtoBIN, SERIAL, and DOWNLOAD. It said: Use these two dozen command line programs to alter and adjust fonts in Adobe Type 1 format without disturbing the 'hinting' information. Package that used to be at the Y&Y site, but seems to have disappeared. įree Windows and Mac program to convert (Mac). dfont font files and convert them into TrueType TTF fonts, which Windows and other operating systems can usually understand. ĭfontSplitter for Windows and Mac are open source programs which allow you to take Mac-formatted. Mark Douma's donationware utility (2004) for Mac OS X: dfontifier is an application that can convert Mac OS X-style Datafork TrueType fonts (.dfonts) into ordinary Mac OS 9-style TrueType fonts and vice versa. Registered version can batch convert to many file types at once. Character outlines, metrics and hinting are not touched. Some features: Convert PostScript Type 1 fonts to OpenType fonts for Windows PC and Macintosh - Convert PostScript Type 1 fonts between PC and Mac. Ĭommercial 45 USD shareware Windows utility by Acute Systems: CrossFont is a Windows 95/98/NT utility for moving PostScript Type1 and TrueType fonts between Macintosh and PC platforms. FontMonger, when applied to type 1 fonts, does not preserve hinting or kerning, so be careful. Īres FontMonger is an older PC-based font conversion (PC to/from Mac) program. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated onįont software company that offers a nice intro to the font formats, and sells conversion software such as Crossfont, Wrefont and TransMac.

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