Re: OS X fonts
Re: OS X fonts
- Subject: Re: OS X fonts
- From: Xandra Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:34:57 -0400
On 04-11-2003 12:38 PM, "nino" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Couple of questions about font usage in OSX:
I highly recommend you read Apples "Using and Managing Fonts in Mac OSX"
Sorry don't have the link, might be available through Creative Pro tab., or
in Knowledge base.
In case you can't find it here are some quick answers:
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1) Has anyone noticed that OS X sees and use os 9 fonts?
This is true
Just to confuse matters there are 4 font folders used by OSX
Users Fonts Folder (...UserName/Library/Fonts) only seen by current user
Local Fonts Folder (HD/Library/Fonts)
System Fonts Folder (HD/System/Library/Fonts)
Classic Fonts Folder (HD/System Folder/Fonts)
Most Apps (all but Adobe?) select fonts according to the order above while X
is active. So if you have Kumquat.dfont in your Library Fonts folder, but
Kumquat True Type in Classic's Font folder OSX will use Kumquat.dfont.
Damned if I know how Adobe's Font folders fit into this scheme.
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2) /Library/Fonts/ contains fonts file with the .dfont extension and files
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without any extension. What type of fonts they are (Type1, Truetype,
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OpenType ...)?
The ones without .otf or .dfont extensions are TrueType -- however I'm not
sure if this is always the same type of TT as used in OS9 (and earlier). I
THINK at least some of these are TrueType data fonts (i.e. no resource
forks). So I wouldn't try copying them to any OS9 fonts folders.
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What type of fonts you can add?
Primarily:
Postscript
OTF (OpenType Fonts - (might not be fully supported by all Apps)
.dfonts
TrueType
As of Jaguar, I believe you can also use Multiple Masters to a degree
(although support for these varies by Application.)
One piece of advice here: If you run classic, or boot off OS9 often. your
best off adding your TT and PS fonts to the Classic Fonts folder Just be
careful about duplicate font names.
Alternately use a Font Manager. Really the only solution if you have a ton
of fonts.
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3) In OS 9 there was the possibility to open a font suitcase and see what
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variations (bold, italic ...) where available. Anything similar on OS X?
NOPE (A REAL PAIN) but I haven't messed with Terminal for this purpose,
MAYBE it can see the screen font files somehow.
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Bear with me if this is not an applescript question, but this is very
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important in understanding why Ghostscript doesn't produce a correct pdf
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when using accented letters with OS X fonts.
Most likely this is occurring cause:
Apple went and changed the Font mappings by switching to Unicode
encoding....GRRRRRRRR While in the long run this may have advantages, it
screws up your old docs (you CAN however replace even System fonts with
your PS Versions (follow instructions in the Apple Doc)
... OR
Ghostscript only handles TT or PS Fonts (I don't have the App, so I couldn't
say)
Good Luck - I'm not an expert hope someone with more understanding will
pipein but I certainly commiserate with your confusion.
xandra
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