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

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

Am 2008-03-03 um 17:44 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>>  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.

As explained, that weird format is the traditional Mac resource fork  
font.

MacOS "Classic" stored all executable stuff in the resource fork,  
besides icons etc.; the data fork of a font file ist just empty.
This concept has its merits - you can edit a lot of resources, like  
GUI elements, messages, icons etc. with a resource editor. I  
completely reworked and translated the GUI of a program once ;-)   
That's not possible with normal Windows or other binaries.
The application structure of OSX, inherited from NextStep, has  
similar features. I like to poke around in applications ;-)

>>  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.

Of course, that's why I asked - I've a lot of "Windows" fonts  
installed in my texmf-local tree and I wouldn't like to enable them  
all for the OS (too much memory).

> - 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")

Since there are OpenType LM fonts now, one could just install them  
for the OS.

BTW I'm just typesetting a magazine in InDesign with LMSans as body  
font (and Adobe Garamond Pro for the headlines).

> - or to convert the font to some other format (officially  
> forbidden, I guess)

normally it is, with commercial fonts


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