Le 1 mars 08 à 13:19, Roland a écrit : > 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.
There is a command line utility called "fondu" to convert fonts between mac format and various other ones. It is available as an i-installer package, and somewhere else... ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
