I know Lisa font formats!

I reverse-engineered the font.lib file back in 2007 for the purpose of converting the Lisa's fonts to TrueType. I wrote up my findings here:

http://www.kreativekorp.com/swdownload/lisa/AppleLisaFontFormat.pdf

I did convert almost all the fonts, except I never got around to converting the Classic and Modern font sets. You can download the TrueType versions here:

http://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/index.shtml#retro


On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 5:42:10 PM UTC-7, Tom Stepleton wrote:
Anyway, I used this to download an interesting-looking file named "font.lib" (you can see it listed in the "screenshot"). I thought I'd try to see if I could visualize fonts inside the file, but I'm giving up now :-)

I'd still love to see the fonts, though.

I've been able to determine that font.lib is an archive (like ar or tar makes) containing a few dozen individual files with names like CENTURY24RPH.F, which certainly look like good names for font files. There seem to be several types of files, distinguished by the letter before the .F, which is either W (probably information about fonts for particular kinds of printers), H, S, or T (don't know about these). I don't have any good guesses for what W, H, S, and T could stand for, either.

My efforts to get anything that looks like letterforms out of these individual file records have all failed so far. With the exception of the W files, it seems the files may be lightly compressed somehow, but I'm not sure how.

Does anyone know more about these "files" or their format, or what kind of compression might have been used for important system resources like fonts? RLE is a candidate, but I'm not sure about that. Huffman coding might work, too...

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