Convert .fon font file for Mac usage? Please help!

[Ode1st]

Hey guys,

This has been driving me crazy for many, many hours. The only thing I could find on the Internet about this doesn't work (Convert Windows .FON To .TTF - Forum - Abstract Fonts).

Basically, I need that font for a MUD client, as it's the only one that doesn't hurt my eyes when there are humongous walls of MUD text for some reason. The weird thing is this:

I got desperate and installed zMUD from my old Windows copy via Crossover Pro. zMUD didn't run well enough, nor did it list the Terminal font (which it does in Windows). However, it listed a font called "System" which isn't a TrueType font, and it was the Terminal font exactly. So, when zMUD runs in Windows, the font is called Terminal. When zMUD runs in OS X under Crossover Pro, it's called System.

So:
a) Is there any way to convert a .fon for usage in OS X? If not:
b) Is that System font hidden somewhere in OS X and I can't find it?

I would REALLY appreciate help on this, it's driving me absolutely bananas.

Thanks in advance .

 

[Chris H.]

You'll need to clarify what exactly you're having issues with. I think this is the reason why no one has taken it upon themselves to help you at this point.

 

[Ode1st]

Hm, I don't know how to make it any clearer than the the a) and b) I listed at the end, but sorry, I know it's kind of a weird thing. I'll give it another shot:

a) I want to convert a .fon file (a font type that only works in Windows) to a .ttf or .otf (a type that OS X will recognize). The link I posted in the original post has instructions to do so, but they simply don't work. I tried the instructions both in Windows and OS X, they don't work under either operating system.

b) Is there a hidden font somewhere in OS X called "System" if so, where can I find it and install it into the Fontbook? I was using a program in OS X that listed the System font, but I can't find it in any other program in OS X.

Hopefully that made things a little clearer .

 

[chas_m]

a. As far as I can tell, this cannot be done (.fon to .ttf). They are fundamentally incompatible.

b. You ****DO NOT**** want to mess with the system fonts. EVER. Don't even go there.

 

[Ode1st]

That's disappointing .

I don't really want to mess with the "System" font, I just want to find it so I can select it for use in other programs . Any idea where I can locate it? For whatever reason, zMUD had it loaded in it's regular font list without any tinkering.

If not, does anyone know where I can get a font for OS X extremely similar to the Terminal font for Windows, (the font file for Terminal is named vgaoem.fon if that helps).

I couldn't really find anything after two days of looking. The closest thing I found was a TrueType conversion of the old Fixedsys, but that also hurts my eyes, sadly.

Thanks for the responses by the way .

 

[squamosity]

I recently had a similiar need to do this and had come across this thread with a deadend. I later found a solution so posting here for others that find this later.

I used Font Forge to convert windows only FON files to macintosh compatible truetype.

"Font Forge is an open source (BSD) outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats."​

Font Forge isn't a native mac app and requires X11 to run. It's clunky and ugly, but it lets you open, save and convert fonts into multiple formats fairly easily.