User`s manual

Conversion Process

PC formatted diskette, ZIP or MO disks

Another relatively easy way of getting font files to a PC is to copy them onto

a PC formatted diskette, ZIP or MO disk. A PC formatted disk is a disk that

was formatted for a PC and thus contains a PC disk structure. When

copying files on such a disk the Mac OS stores them using a special

protocol called "PC Exchange". After you have copied files to such disk,

TransType is able to read them directly from the media. Note that files

might be “zero size”. This is just because their resource fork is stored

elsewhere (e.g. in other directory). TransType will locate all the necessary

data automatically.

MacDrive

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utility and Mac formatted disks or CDs

MacDrive is a third party utility that was developed to enable the PC to

read disks that were originally formatted on a Macintosh (and thus have

the Mac OS file system). Visit

http://www.macdrive.com for details. TransType

automatically uses the functionality of MacDrive if it is installed thus

enabling it to read Macintosh files from any media supported by MacDrive.

This is the only way for TransType to read fonts directly from Macintosh

disks. Note that Windows may report the size of Macintosh fonts to be

zero. Nevertheless TransType will be able to read them. Note that

MacDrive supports only Macintosh HFS CDs.

Through a network from a WinNT/2000/XP

workstation

Windows NT/Windows 2000/Windows XP has the ability to store

Macintosh files on its NTFS partition. Unfortunately these services are

unavailable under Windows 95/98/ME. So if you are running Windows

NT, XP or 2000 TransType can directly read Macintosh files located on any

local or network NTFS drives. This could be the most convenient way if

you need to convert files often. Note that as in the previous case files can be

reported to be zero size but that doesn't mean that they are actually empty.