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

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

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.
Isn't it possible to use traditional TeX-installed fonts with XeTeX?

> PCs don't have the data fork

PCs don't know the Mac *resource* fork.
BTW there are different forks *possible* with NTFS (supported from  
WinNT to XP, no more in Vista)!

> 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


fondu is by the same author as fontforge; look at
http://fondu.sourceforge.net/
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/


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Hraban
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