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On 19 Feb 2008, at 12:01, Ben Butterfield wrote:

>
>> Try grabbing a copy of Adobe Type Manager Light ... see if that  
>> helps.
>> http://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight/download.html
>
> I gave that a go, but it doesn't like the AFM's. In fact, it doesn't
> even recognize it as a valid file type.
>
> During googling, there was a mention of uncompressing the BIN files  
> even
> further. Any ideas on how I would go about that on a Windows box? All
> the hints I found talked about using StuffIt.

There's a version of StuffIt available for Windows.

That said, it does sound like you've got a set of Mac fonts  
there: .BIN is an extension that commonly gets attached to pre-Mac OS  
X ('Classic') Mac files, and I've seen it attached to font files.

Here's the really scary part: when Mac files get transferred x- 
platform, very often the resource fork (the bit which stores the file  
type and suchlike) gets stripped away. In some fonts (forget which,  
precisely) the resource fork contains critical information without  
which the fonts won't work.

So even if you get them onto a Mac, they may be corrupt. :-0


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