In a previous message, Andreas Lindkvist typed vigorously:
>Have anyone heard about this font?
Apple used a couple of custom-made picture (or dingbat) fonts for their
documentation. One is the PieConThree font (the "PIE" part of the font
name standing for Personal Interactive Electronics, the division that
once included the Newton and Pippin devices) and the other is the
AppleIconThree (which I believe had the Apple logo and other Mac-specific
keyboard sybmols) font. Both are used in the PDF you mentioned, but can
also be found in the majority of the other Newton manuals and such.
Since the font is an embedded and subsetted (only a portion of the
original character set exists in the document) version of the typeface,
it is difficult to extract it out of the PDF for use elsewhere. There are
a couple of ways to pull the font data out of Acrobat files, but they are
both problematic and convoluted. Adobe never wanted people to be able to
pull embedded fonts out of PDFs, so they made it reasonably difficult to
do.
I am giving a couple of techniques a go at my end and will let you know
if I am successful. It would be very cool to have EPS or font-based
versions of those Newton icons.
g.
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