Re: suit file
Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: It's a font suitcase, and IIRC the font data is actually in the resource fork. At least under Mac OS X, fontforge seems to be able to deal with these. If you have the file on a non-Mac OS machine it may well be corrupt, since non-Mac filesystems do not preserve the resource fork data. This file was sent to me by a friend, from a Mac computer, by e-mail, and then saved on my ext3 HD. Any danger that it was corrupted, or incomplete? Regards, Jan -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
Re: suit file
If it was packaged up correctly on the sending side (using BinHex, probably) then the bits might still be intact. I believe fontforge can read binhex'ed files even on non-Mac OS operating systems and from any filesystem. Good luck! -Ben On 2009-05-04, Jan Willem Stumpel jstum...@planet.nl wrote: Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: It's a font suitcase, and IIRC the font data is actually in the resource fork. At least under Mac OS X, fontforge seems to be able to deal with these. If you have the file on a non-Mac OS machine it may well be corrupt, since non-Mac filesystems do not preserve the resource fork data. This file was sent to me by a friend, from a Mac computer, by e-mail, and then saved on my ext3 HD. Any danger that it was corrupted, or incomplete? Regards, Jan -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
Re: suit file
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:01:52PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: It's a font suitcase, and IIRC the font data is actually in the resource fork. At least under Mac OS X, fontforge seems to be able to deal with these. If you have the file on a non-Mac OS machine it may well be corrupt, since non-Mac filesystems do not preserve the resource fork data. This file was sent to me by a friend, from a Mac computer, by e-mail, and then saved on my ext3 HD. Any danger that it was corrupted, or incomplete? Often old Mac email programs will send both the data fork and resource fork as attachments when sending email. You might need a good mail reader like mutt which can let you select which mime element you want to save in order to get the resource fork saved as its own file. Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
suit file
I have a font for an exotic language (Javanese) that I want to convert to UTF-8 encoding. Problem is, the font file was made on a Macintosh using Fontographer, and it has a .suit file extension that Fontforge doesn't know how to handle. Anyone knows of a conversion tool under Linux that can change a *.suit file to ttf? Regards, Jan -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
Re: suit file
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 08:02:40AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I have a font for an exotic language (Javanese) that I want to convert to UTF-8 encoding. Problem is, the font file was made on a Macintosh using Fontographer, and it has a .suit file extension that Fontforge doesn't know how to handle. Anyone knows of a conversion tool under Linux that can change a *.suit file to ttf? Googling for suit file format turns up lots of SEO-spam sites with no details on what the format really looks like. I think it's just some sort of primitive archive format that contains the ttf (or several ttf's) and you may be able to search for a ttf header within it and then just throw away the suit crap at the beginning using dd. Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
Re: suit file
It's a font suitcase, and IIRC the font data is actually in the resource fork. At least under Mac OS X, fontforge seems to be able to deal with these. If you have the file on a non-Mac OS machine it may well be corrupt, since non-Mac filesystems do not preserve the resource fork data. On 2009-05-03, Rich Felker dal...@aerifal.cx wrote: On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 08:02:40AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I have a font for an exotic language (Javanese) that I want to convert to UTF-8 encoding. Problem is, the font file was made on a Macintosh using Fontographer, and it has a .suit file extension that Fontforge doesn't know how to handle. Anyone knows of a conversion tool under Linux that can change a *.suit file to ttf? Googling for suit file format turns up lots of SEO-spam sites with no details on what the format really looks like. I think it's just some sort of primitive archive format that contains the ttf (or several ttf's) and you may be able to search for a ttf header within it and then just throw away the suit crap at the beginning using dd. Rich -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
