User Guide

to your PC
Before you can install the fonts you created on your
Macintosh in Windows, you’ll have to get them copied to
your PC. There are so many ways to accomplish this that
we hesitate to get specific. The only key to getting files
across platforms is to be sure that you don’t let the process
change the binary data in any way. In other words, just
change the disk format, not the data format.
Transferring fonts from the PC to your Macintosh
Fontographer 4.1 for Windows ships with a utility that
builds Macintosh font files from files that you produce in
Windows. For more information on using the Macromedia
PC to Macintosh Font Conversion Utility (MMPC2MAC),
refer to Part II of Using Fontographer on Your PC.
Porting NeXT PostScript fonts to NEXTSTEP
This is often the trickiest part of porting fonts. If you’re
fortunate enough to have your Macintosh, DOS, and
UNIXboxes on a network, then you already know what to
do. Otherwise, read on.
From the Macintosh
If you’re using NEXTSTEP™ 3.0 or later (including
NEXTSTEP/486), you can read Macintosh diskettes
directly. Simply transfer your font files from the Mac to the
NEXTSTEP environment on a Macintosh high-density
diskette.
All versions of NEXTSTEP (and NEXTSTEP/486) can
read DOS diskettes. To transfer your Macintosh-created
NeXT fonts, first rename all your files so that they conform
to the DOS 8.3 naming conventions. Make a record of the
original file names (minus the “.next” extension, which isn’t
used on the NeXT). Use the default transfer in Apple File
Exchange to copy your NeXT fonts to a DOS floppy. Once
you have copied them from the DOS floppy into your
NEXTSTEP drive, rename the DOS files with their full
NeXT names.
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