Re: Native font format

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 17:36:23 EDT

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At 12:36 PM -0700 7/27/01, John Hudson wrote:
>
>You might run into trouble with resource fork TTFs vs. data fork
>TTFs, depending on which version of the OS you are running. Data
>fork TTFs are the Windows standard, and resource fork TTFs were long
>the Apple standard. Mac OS X natively supports both versions; Max OS
>9 only exposes data fork TTFs to ATSUI applications; other versions
>of the OS do not support data fork TTFs at all, as far as I know.
>Like Windows 2000, Mac OS X includes native support for PostScript
>fonts.

This is basically correct, except that data-fork TTFs are supported
from 8.5 onwards in ATSUI.

>John Jenkins at Apple can probably provide more precise information.
>He may or may not want to burden you with knowledge of the esoteric
>.dfont format.
>

He does not want to.

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