Re: How to retrieve the font information from TrueType font file?
Re: How to retrieve the font information from TrueType font file?
- Subject: Re: How to retrieve the font information from TrueType font file?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:29:11 -0700
On Oct 17, 2009, at 8:09 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
FYI, I haven't found any of the "Font Suitcase" files that have a
data fork. The font is in the 'FOND' resource -- and all of those
fonts work fine under Snow Leopard. Some of this legacy stuff is
probably pretty hard to eliminate without nasty repercussions.
.dfont files, I believe, are suitcases in the form of data-fork-based
resource files.
Fonts themselves were never stored in FOND resources. The FOND is/was
just an index pointing to the individual FONT or sfnt resources for
the font family. And in the case of Type 1 fonts, it pointed to the
filename of the 'LWFN' file with the PostScript data.
(BTW, I spent 1988-90 developing a PostScript and TrueType font editor
for a small foundry that went out of business.)
—Jens_______________________________________________
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