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Mac to PC truetype converter

For many Mac truetype fonts, this little UNIX shell file (requiring bin2ascii, sed, gawk) converts a truetype file to Windows format. Tinker with it for better results.

 for i do

filename=$i

rm -rf $filename.bin $filename.$$

bin2ascii $filename > $filename.bin

sed '/\\0\\x01\\0\\0\\0/s//XXXXX/' $filename.bin |

gawk ' BEGIN {m=0}

$0 ~ /XXXXX/ && m == 0 {print "AAAAA" $0; m=1}

m == 2  {print $0}

$0 ~ /name/ || $0 ~ /cmap/  {m=2}  ' |

sed '/^AAAAA.*XXXXX/s//\\0\\x01\\0\\0\\0/'  |

sed '/XXXXX/s//\\0\\x01\\0\\0\\0/'  > $filename.$$

bin2ascii -i $filename.$$ > $filename.ttf

#rename $filename.ttf

#  (use above line if you have a font renaming utility)

rm -rf $filename.bin $filename.$$

done 

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