In article <1e4z8uy.98oe1s1n2asasN%smellenbergh@skynet.be> , 
sme### [at] skynetbe (smellenbergh) wrote:

> This only happens with Mac converted fonts. At least, that's what we
> found out. We can use all original windows true type fonts.
> If we use the little utility that comes with the official 3.1 Macintosh
> version to convert the installed Mac fonts, we can use some converted
> Mac fonts (like verdana) but most of them are unusable.

Basically all it does is take the resource based ttf data and copies it into
the data fork.

> We can not verify at this moment if the number of usable converted fonts
> has decreased since the december release. If we remember well, there are
> no changes between the december version and the current in the handling
> of the true type fonts object.

There must have been a change, it is probably looking for the wrong cmap
tables (Windows only ones) and ignores the Mac cmap tables...

> The official Mac Team does warn that not all converted fonts are usable,
> perhaps nothing has changed yet.

I found that depending on the font adding all Mac cmap tables (and for
MegaPOV I would also add all Unicode tables) will give better results, at
least for the official version.  Just try to run the Apple AAT Font Tool
over the font <http://fonts.apple.com/Tools/tooldir/AATFontTool.sea.hqx>, or
try the tons of other programmer level tools at
http://fonts.apple.com/Tools/agreed.html.
NOTE: Fonts may grow in size considerably when adding all cmap tables!!!


      Thorsten



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