From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39370 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Using Postscript Type 1 fonts in ConTeXt/XeTeX? Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:44:23 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00803030844ye221619w7eada2ed592b4fa3@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00801210249t6274c598g264421a26b6cd977@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00801211539q42bbcbc4wc77e23555f028d48@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00801220037x1044123q1c1d7c05f9121d44@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204564467 14649 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2008 17:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:14:27 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 03 18:14:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWEFX-0002hV-5K for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:14:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771FA1FC0D; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:13:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15555-01-2; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:12:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889E91FBF9; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:12:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160D71FBEB for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:12:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15545-03-2 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:11:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.170]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 673BF1FC14 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:11:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so203264wfg.5 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:11:13 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.143.42.3 with SMTP id u3mr128715wfj.148.1204562663388; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:44:23 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.143.173.8 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:44:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39370 Archived-At: On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Some of your statements seem wrong or at least confusing to me: > > Am 2008-03-01 um 13:19 schrieb Roland: > > > > 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. > > As you state later, all data fork fonts (TrueType, OpenType and > PostScript) should work. > For I never tried XeTeX I don't know if PS Type 1 and 3 will work. They do. But the mac Type1 fonts come in some weird format for which Jonathan hasn't written support in xdvipdfmx (yet). With xdv2pdf they work OK. > Isn't it possible to use traditional TeX-installed fonts with XeTeX? Yes, it is. But the font that Roland has bought and is trying to use in XeTeX comes in two flavors: one for mac (that's the one he has) and one for Windows. The "traditional TeX-installed" fonts are in the format that Windows uses (another font, actually) and would not work in other Mac applications. He would actually need either: - the windows version of that font (which he doesn't have) - or a patch for XeTeX (xdvipdfmx actually) that would allow him to use the font he has (the patch *might* come one day, but there are more important things in XeTeX waiting to be implemented) - or to patch ConTeXt to use xdv2pdf instead of xdvipdfmx + rewrite a bunch of definitions that load Latin Modern (they should not be loaded since xdv2pdf doesn't support "traditional TeX-installed fonts") - or to convert the font to some other format (officially forbidden, I guess) The second problem is also that the syntax to call that font might need to be changed, but that's a minor problem. A story learned: it is possible, but any of the described ways is extremely clumsy to use, so one should better use another font to avoid problems. 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