Hi Amy,

Want to share a few files?


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On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 4:52 PM McDonald, Stephen <[log in to unmask]>
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> You believe these are font files but you are trying to save them as text?
> You can't save a font file as a text file.  They don't have textual
> content--they are specifications for how a specific font is rendered at
> various font sizes.  What do you want to do with these files?
>
>                                         Steve McDonald
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Amy
> Schuler
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2021 3:31 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Corel display font files, part II
>
> Hi there,
> me again, still working on Corel display font files.  A bigger job than I
> thought.  Hoping someone can shed some light on this jumble of files and
> provide some guidance in converting/migrating them to new formats.
>
> A typical subfolder has 25 files, named according to this format:
> [filename].[two digit file extension signifying year of data collection],
> for example GCANPR.93.  All files are purportedly WordPerfect, but with
> this file extension, they are actually display font files generated using
> WordPerfect.  You see, the documentation identifies these files as WP
> files, but when I open each file in LibreOffice or Notepad it says it was
> "saved as ASCII/DOS text"- not sure if this makes any difference to my
> efforts to convert.
>
> Anyway, I ran these two little commands on my Windows 10 machine, For /R
> %G in (*.93) do REN "%G" "93%~nG.93" = this renames the file so that it
> retains the year 1993 in the file name (I haven't figured out how to do
> this as a batch for multiple years, so I have to change the year XX a few
> times). Then I run this command on all renamed files to generate text
> files, For /R %f IN (*.*) do REN "%f" *.txt .
>
> This seemed to work smoothly until I found a single file that was all
> wingdings (but seemingly no different from the others - I checked the
> original, it was all text not spreadsheet), and I found a couple files
> where some text was lost in conversion.
>
> Any thoughts?  I am sure my commands are rudimentary, don't judge me, I'm
> new to this stuff.  I guess I'm wondering if the problem is in my choice of
> CL utilities (is my use of REN the wrong thing), syntax, or if it is the
> vagaries of these files that is screwing things up?
>
> THANKS!  Feel free to contact me off list.
> A
> --
>
> Amy C. Schuler (she/her)
> Director, Information Services & Library
>
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