Editing contents of screen font suitcases in OSX

I've received a number of fonts from clients in which the suitcase containing the screen fonts contains numerous additional screen fonts which I would like to remove.
For example, suppose a client has supplied a new font called "Obscurefont" which I need. The printer font for "Obscurefont" has been supplied as a separate file, as well as a screen font suitcase called "Bunchafonts". This screen font suitcase contains the needed screen font for "Obscurefont," but it also contains numerous other screen fonts for Helvetica, Times, etc. which are not necessary, and which often create font conflicts.
To fix this problem back in the old days, I would boot up my old G3 in OS9, double-click on the screen font suitcase, and drag out the offending extra screen fonts into the trash.
Is there any way, short of dusting off an old machine capable of booting in OS9, of editing the contents of a screen font suitcase?

I checked out a discussion on the OSX 10.4 forum which solved my problem, and made me feel a wee bit nostalgic... Turns out that the old "Font/DA Mover" app from years ago (System 6?) still runs in Classic mode, and it can still edit the contents of screen font suitcases. Painfully slow, but it works.

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You kind of have to know ahead of time. But here's one example of a Type 1 PostScript font:
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