Native font format

2001-07-27 Thread Myanmar Triumph Int'l Ltd.
format? (What drove me to ask this question is that AFAIK, .ttf was designed for Apple Macintosh, then, I'd like to claim .ttf as a native font format of Mac, Can I?.) 2. Can I claim .bdf (bitmap distribution format of Adobe) as a native font format of Linux? And .pcf (Portable Compiled Format)? 3

Re: Native font format

2001-07-27 Thread John Hudson
At 00:35 7/28/2001 -0700, Myanmar Triumph Int'l Ltd. wrote: 1. In each and every OS Platform (such as Microsoft Win9x, Win2K, Mac, IBM OS2, Unix, Linux etc...), is there anything like native font format? Not as such. I think it would be fair to describe data fork TTFs as the Windows 9x, ME

Re: Native font format

2001-07-27 Thread David Starner
From: Myanmar Triumph Int'l Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. In each and every OS Platform (such as Microsoft Win9x, Win2K, Mac, IBM OS2, Unix, Linux etc...), is there anything like native font format? That all depends what you mean by native font format. All of those can handle several font formats

Re: Native font format

2001-07-27 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 12:36 PM -0700 7/27/01, John Hudson wrote: You might run into trouble with resource fork TTFs vs. data fork TTFs, depending on which version of the OS you are running. Data fork TTFs are the Windows standard, and resource fork TTFs were long the Apple standard. Mac OS X natively supports