Re: Using Postscript Type 1 fonts in ConTeXt/XeTeX?

["Jérome Laurens" <jerome.laurens@u-bourgogne.fr>]

Le 1 mars 08 à 13:19, Roland a écrit :

> Seems we never posted the conclusion about this problem: XeTeX simply
> doesn't work with the old Mac Type 1 Postscript fonts on Mac OS X
> (Leopard or before). The reason is that these old fonts store their
> data in the resource fork, which Unix utilities like XeTeX don't see.
> Only TrueType or OpenType fonts will be recognised and loaded
> correctly.
>
> PCs don't have the data fork so old Type 1 Postscript fonts for PCs
> (with .pfb extension) seem to work. Just copying these to the Mac is
> no solution, however, because Mac OS X does not support PC-style Type
> 1 fonts (only the Mac ones with the data in the resource fork), and
> therefore XeTeX will not find these fonts.
>
> Therefore the preferred solution is to use fonts of TrueType or
> OpenType varieties. For those with access to a font conversion program
> like fondu (?) fontforge (?) or fontlab (?) it may be possible to
> convert the old Type 1 font to TrueType or OpenType, reinstall it and
> have XeTeX work with it in that way.


There is a command line utility called "fondu"
to convert fonts between mac format and various other ones.
It is available as an i-installer package, and somewhere else...



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