On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Michiel Kamermans < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Tim, > > > Yes, it's Font Book, the mac app. And you're right, the font files were 0 >> byte files. >> >> With your help and Michiel's, I finally figured out that I had bought >> TrueType and needed OpenType. A quick trip to buy the opentype version of >> URW's Lucida Handwriting and my linux server is business. unzipped the file >> on the shared webserver into the user's local ~/.fonts directory and >> everything works. >> >> > Hmm, but TrueType fonts should not be a problem for XeTeX... 0-byte fonts, > of course, would be =) > > When a foundry sells both TrueType and OpenType versions of the same font, > it just means the first is an OpenType font with TrueType outlines -- these > started as the standard windows format, use quadratic bezier for curves, and > allows either outline or 'other glyphs' as building blocks. The curves are > not as precise as type2, but need less coordinates, too -- and the second is > an OpenType font with type2 outlines -- an update and rewrite of adobe's > type1 format, which defines curves in terms of cubic bezier, meaning more > data, but allows any series of outline instruction as subroutine by any > number of glyphs, making the fonts drastically smaller. > > Both are understood by XeTeX (with or without fontspec). > > - Mike > > > Thanks for that explanation Mike. >From what I can see, the original font would have worked on linux just as it does for mac, but I did not understand how to transfer the files. FontBook on the mac exported the fonts to a directory that has a strange structure--the files seem to be 0 byte files and of course that's what I transferred to the linux box and hence my failures. I found this page that explains it: http://fondu.sourceforge.net/ While I may have wasted the $20 on new OpenType font, I did learn a lot (more than I wanted to) about my mac, xelatex and linux. thanks, --Tim Arnold
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