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A friend of mine has been in digital typesetting and editing since the mid-90s; he has a lot of experience with pre- and post- MacosX Macs. If someone can point us at the suitcases, I can ask him to have a look at identifying the formats and seeing if they can be converted? I can also have look - my expertise comes from forty years developer experience, with a lot of bit twiddling.

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Sunday, November 30, 2025 - 08:53 am: Edit

Shoot me an email and I can send you the suitcases.

By Russ Simkins (Madcowak) on Sunday, November 30, 2025 - 02:57 pm: Edit

No one would be happier than I to get those original Mac fonts converted via better tools than I possess (outline tracing?). If nothing else it would be extremely helpful to get the old bitmap files to something readable on PCs. I don't have a Mac of any kind, pre or post OSX. (God forbid the use of Apple, see Adam & Eve!) Please do have your friend check them out.

I continue to work on building glyphs for the various font styles and deciding which are worth adding to the symbol set and which could be replaced by more useful symbols (i.e. fighter weapon symbols, fractions, etc). If we forgo the diacritics there's plenty of room for new symbols that would promote standardization of SSDs. Have played a little with creating a new 16 point "font" with SSD system box types (i.e. phasers, mech-links, shading... ) which should also help with making consistent SSDs.

Have a bit of a struggle ahead getting the kerning right especially for the lowercase letters since I have such a minimal example set. Doing best guess is all I got.

Anyway, the work goes on!
-Russ

By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Wednesday, January 07, 2026 - 10:14 am: Edit

Russ and Stephen G., how are the Font PC conversions going?

By Russ Simkins (Madcowak) on Thursday, January 08, 2026 - 02:59 am: Edit

Been busy elsewhere over the holiday season and about to go out of town to see aging parents so not going to get anything done for a couple more weeks. Ran into a compatibility issue which is going to be a time consuming pain to fix. Hope to get some time when I get back.