I'm afraid it's not that easy. One way to do it would be to get a .ro file with the font data extracted for a single font. Repeat for each font. Then, write a .r (Mac Rez) script that defines a separate NFNT for each .ro and places the data into a Mac .rsrc file. You might be able to do this with the CW/Palm on Windows and have the result in a resource.frk folder. It would probably be easier on a Mac, especially since any font converters that read NFNT would probably be on the Mac and not Windows.
I don't have a Mac any longer so I'm useless at this point. > -----Original Message----- > From: Stadin, Benjamin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:18 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: RE: Standard Palm fonts on Windows? > > > Eric Cloninger wrote: > > >The font's themselves are Mac NFNTs. This is a well known > format and > >some of the tools that work with fonts can convert to/from > mac NFNT. > >This is an older bitmap format. If you can find the fonts > in the ROM, > >you can extract them to a flat file with PRCExplorer. Do > some magic to > >get them into MacOS resource fork format, and them convert to true > >type. It maybe ugly, but it should work. > > > > > Thank you very much for this info. When I compile a NFNT .ro > resource object using PilRc/Metrowerks for Palm, is this the > same as a mac resource fork? > > > > > >The real question will be "is it legal"? Who owns the > rights to those > >fonts? > > > > Fortunately, yes ;-). It's not allowed to use other Palm > Windows ttf true type fonts if, they already exist. But it's > allowed to convert them from a bitmap format to a true type > format (true types are copyrightable, bitmaps are not). > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fonts-faq/part2/ > > "First, the short answer in the USA: Typefaces are not copyrightable; > bitmapped fonts are not copyrightable, but scalable fonts are > copyrightable. Authorities for these conclusions follow." > > > Benjamin > > > > > >-E > > > > > -- > For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or > to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ > > > -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
