NAME

       fondu - convert Macintosh font files to UNIX font format

SYNOPSIS

       fondu [-force] [-inquire] [-show] [-latin1] [-afm] [-trackps] macfile...

DESCRIPTION

       The  program  fondu reads a series of Macintosh font files, checks their resource forks, and extracts all
       font related items into separate files.

       Input files may be either macbinary files (.bin), binhex files (.hqx), bare Macintosh resource forks,  or
       data  fork  resource files (.dfont, as used by MacOS X).  A bare resource fork may be generated easily be
       copying a file with a resource fork onto a diskette (or zip drive) using DOS format.  The Macintosh  will
       create  a folder called resource.frk (invisible on the Macintosh itself), in which the resource fork will
       reside as a bare file.

       The command line should end with a list of one or more Macintosh  font  files,  macfile...;  these  files
       should be macbinary (.bin), binhex(.hqx), or bare resource fork files.

OPTIONS

       -force Force overwriting of the original file.

       -inquire
              Prompt for input before overwriting files. This overrides -force.

       -show  Print out each file as it is created.

       -latin1
              Recode any macintosh bitmap fonts (NFNTs) from the macintosh roman encoding to latin1.

       -trackps
              If  the  macfiles  argument  mentions  a  file  containing a FOND, and that FOND mentions external
              PostScript resource files, then attempt to open those PostScript files as well as  processing  the
              original file.

       -afm   For  any  macfile which contains a FOND and points to at least one PostScript resource file create
              an Adobe Font Metrics (afm) file. Fondu will merge width and bounding  box  information  from  the
              PostScript files, and kerning data from the FOND.

AUTHOR

       George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

       Manual  page by Ziying Sherwin (sherwin@nlm.nih.gov) and R.P.C Rodgers (rodgers@nlm.nih.gov), Lister Hill
       National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

                                                   27 May 2004                                          FONDU(1)