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I have some .dfont files I wanted to convert into true type (ttf) files. .dfont files are peculiar to the Mac, and peculiar to Mac OS X, which seems kind of strange, because they're data-fork true type font files.

I played around with a few other programs before stumbling upon fondu, which is almost deliciously perfect for this purpose. It's a command line program suite rather than a crappy drag-and-droppy program that is half AppleScript, half Objective C, and half broken. Heck, you could build an AppleScript UI on top of these files and charge $19.99, and I would have bought it from you. I'd do the same if reeses != lazy.

Whining about UIs aside, someone has kindly built a Mac OS X package installer for it, although it slaps it in /usr/local/bin, so be sure to type the full path (/usr/local/bin/fondu fonttoconvert.dfont) if /usr/local/bin isn't already in your path.

Yes, this means using Terminal, iTerm, or that craptacular new Java terminal everyone is wetting their pants over. It's only 2006, don't expect a good terminal application yet, since they've only had 250 years to write one. I'm sure they'll get to it right around the time someone figures out how to write a mail user agent that doesn't suck.

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