Re: fonts (in luatex) (again)

["Charles P. Schaum" <verbo.solo@sbcglobal.net>]

That's right; use fondu. Fontforge can read a .dfont (data fork
resource) but it cannot specify something within that to load without
user input.

The only files that use .dfont are from Apple for Apple. The Mac knows
what is basically coded into these files and works with them
accordingly. That presents the design decision of whether to support an
alien font scheme that only exists in Steve Jobs' universe, not in the
rest of the 95% of computers out there.

Then there is the whole issue of encoding because especially the
Apple .dfont files tend to have a number of named glyphs that Fontforge
thinks are misplaced.

Fontforge also will not open a font in a ~/.fonts dir, at least on
Ubuntu Hardy. It does not appear to handle special cases of pathnames
very well.

You can, however, use Fontforge and fondu to get at the fonts in the
resource fork; fondu looks like it is better for the task 

Charles

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 21:19 +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure, but ".dfont" looks like AAT format and no extension like
> > Mac-specific way of storing Type 1. Both doable, but someone needs to
> > do that.
> 
> You can run "fondu" on .dfont files and then use the resulting files  
> (ttf or pfb, I guess) for use with whatever flavor of TeX you want.
> 
> Thomas
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