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Re: wnpp: ITP: msttcorefonts -- installer package for MS TrueType core fonts for Web



On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:14:53PM -0500, sharkey@superk.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:
> This installer will ignore the .exe files, and process the .sit.hqx files
> instead.  Unfortunately, one of the fonts is not available for Mac, and
> two of the fonts are compressed in version 5.5 of Aladdin Stuffit Expander,
> which can't yet be decompressed by macunpack.  This means that the installer
> will only install 8 out of 11 fonts, but that's better than nothing.

miniunz or unzip can unpack the .exe files, they're zip SFX.  That'd let
you install all 11 fonts, as I have done.


> The installer includes some black magic to reconstruct PC compatible fonts
> from the Macintosh files.

Is that necessary?

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