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Herbert Duerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > Why OpenType fonts shipped with MacOSX are not recognized by freetype2?
> 
> Do you mean "why are they not found by OOo"?
yes. exactly.

> It probably is the combination of
> 1. they are in the dfont format, which is not directly understood by OOo
> 2. most are CFF style OpenType fonts => OOo cannot embed them yet => it
> cannot print them
right. Format of hiragino fonts are CFF. (according to 
http://www.youart.co.jp/news/vol.5.html )

> 3. they are not in psprint's font search path
> 4. their SFNT version says "OTTO" instead of 0x00010000, so psprint doesn't
> recognize them as fonts it can handle

> 1. can be worked around by running the fondu tool, native support would be
> even better though
Hm,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fondu/
* License: BSD License
so we can port into OOo (even, if possible) directly... 

> 2. is on the radar for OOo 3
> 3. and 4. are easy to fix, but without 2. these fixes would be worthless

understand.

thanks for your kind information!
-- NAKATA, Maho ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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