Some of your statements seem wrong or at least confusing to me: Am 2008-03-01 um 13:19 schrieb Roland:
> 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. As you state later, all data fork fonts (TrueType, OpenType and PostScript) should work. For I never tried XeTeX I don't know if PS Type 1 and 3 will work. Isn't it possible to use traditional TeX-installed fonts with XeTeX? > PCs don't have the data fork PCs don't know the Mac *resource* fork. BTW there are different forks *possible* with NTFS (supported from WinNT to XP, no more in Vista)! > 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 fondu is by the same author as fontforge; look at http://fondu.sourceforge.net/ http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
