At 12:36 PM -0700 7/27/01, John Hudson wrote:
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>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 both versions; Max OS 
>9 only exposes data fork TTFs to ATSUI applications; other versions 
>of the OS do not support data fork TTFs at all, as far as I know. 
>Like Windows 2000, Mac OS X includes native support for PostScript 
>fonts.

This is basically correct, except that data-fork TTFs are supported 
from 8.5 onwards in ATSUI.

>John Jenkins at Apple can probably provide more precise information. 
>He may or may not want to burden you with knowledge of the esoteric 
>.dfont format.
>

He does not want to.

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