Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 20:28:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Graphical Environnement for PC-GNU compiler
To: turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>   What would be interesting is designing some code that can read the
>   Windows 3.1 font files (True Type) and generate the fonts that way.
>
>    | Author.............. Ron Grunwald                                | 
>    | Internet............ rgrunwal AT bluering DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au              | 
>
>AFAIK TrueType is just an encoded Adobe Type 1 font, so once you've
>figured out the encoding Ghostscript will do the job.

Nope.  TrueType is a totally new format.  I think there are some docs on
ftp.microsoft.com.

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