On 20.12.2009, at 17:14, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Claudius Link wrote:
> []
>> Can't find an appropriate resource fork in /Library/Fonts/Arial
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing applesystemfonts (--install):
>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> applesystemfonts
>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
>> Failed: can't install package applesystemfonts-1.1-1
>> ----------
>> It tuns out that this file (and several others) are empty.
>> $ ls -l /Library/Fonts/Arial
>> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  admin         0 Aug 22  2005 /Library/Fonts/Arial
> 
> Careful there: On 10.5 and earlier, this file is a "resorce fork font", which 
> means that 'ls -l' shows a size of 0 Bytes (the data fork), but 'ls -l@' 
> shows something nonzero:
> 
> ls -l@ /Library/Fonts/Arial
> -rw-rw-r--@ 1 root  admin  0 Mar 21  2005 /Library/Fonts/Arial
>       com.apple.FinderInfo    32
>       com.apple.ResourceFork  317313
You are right there.
But the concerned font files didn't contain a resource fork (-rw-rw-r-- instead 
of -rw-rw-r--@)

> /Library/Fonts/Arial never came with the system; it was installed by some 
> 3rd-party software. I think it must come from 10.4. Maybe the resource fork 
> was stripped on the way from 10.4 to 10.6?
That is what I suspect as well.
For the 0 sized font files there exists corresponding .ttf files

> Is applesystemfonts still useful on 10.6 (or even on 10.5)?. I am curious, 
> because Font handling in X11 has changed a lot since the days when 
> applesystemfonts was created.
I actually don't know. I installed it to satisfy dependencies.
Is there a way how I can check this?

Claudius


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