From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39345 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Using Postscript Type 1 fonts in ConTeXt/XeTeX? Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:19:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: <6faad9f00801201311p3b5f0fb1vbd87496136110405@mail.gmail.com> <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 1204374150 28907 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2008 12:22:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:22:30 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Mar 01 13:22:55 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 1JVQju-0000pz-EW for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:22:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA9C51FB74; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:22:21 +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 15498-03-2; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:21:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083D31FB71; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:21:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A75A41FB7F for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:21:40 +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 15498-03 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:21:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 323851FB71 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 13:19:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so5054152wfg.5 for ; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:19:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.142.221.19 with SMTP id t19mr7685231wfg.62.1204373986248; Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:19:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.142.142.12 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Mar 2008 04:19:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 150d747c7ebfa532 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:39345 Archived-At: 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. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________