At 10:22 am -0600 1/10/02, John H. Jenkins wrote: >On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 08:42 AM, Alan Wood wrote: > >>I don't think anyone replied to this. As far as I know, these are the only >>applications for Mac OS 9 that can use Windows TrueType fonts: >> > >On X, any (non-Classic) application can use Windows TrueType fonts. >Carbon applications which do not explicitly use ATSUI or MLTE are >limited in how much of the font they can use. Cocoa apps are pretty >much able to do anything.
Even better -- TT fonts (provided they do not use Unicode code points) can be used in ANY classic app from System 8.6 onwards (at least) with or without OS 10. To make a font recognisable in OS <10, it must have its file type and creator types set. To do this, select a single font file in the finder and run this script: tell application "Finder" set fontfile to selection as string as alias set file type of fontfile to "sfnt" set creator type of fontfile to "movr" end tell TT fonts (such as Arial Unicode MS) can only be used in OS 8/9 in applications such as WorldText, which means, so far as I know, WorldText period. Mac developers have not been and still are not rushing to produce editors that understand Unicode. Some of them seem to believe their apps understand Unicode and make out to their customers that they do, but this is pure fantasy. The illusion was successfully created by Apple while they dragged their feet for years and did conjuring tricks with the TEC. TT fonts, whether Unicode or not, will work fine without modification in OS 10 and it suffices to put them in ~/Library/Fonts/. I forget whether you need to log out to activate them. I am hoping that the first serious Unicode word processor to emerge will be Nisus, which has done such wonderful service with multilingual stuff in the past. Microsoft's Office X cannot yet display Unicode, though it looks as if it can 'store' Unicode behind its lines of dashes without destroying it by converting it. I haven't tried, but it's quite possible that a Word X doc containing (undisplayed) Unicode strings can be transferred to Windows and displayed properly. I'm just guessing here and am not going to bother trying because I detest MS Word in all its weak flavours. JD