[Sirfishalot]

Are the True Type fonts interchangable between the platforms; or rather can I take fonts from a PC and load them up in X?
Thanks

[megasad]

Originally posted by Sirfishalot:
Are the True Type fonts interchangable between the platforms; or rather can I take fonts from a PC and load them up in X?
Thanks

Drop them in ~/Library/Fonts/ and they'll work just fine.

[Millennium]

.TTF format TrueType fonts -the type Windows uses- can be copied straight across; they'll work without modification on OSX. Likewise for .otf format OpenType fonts.

.dfont format TrueType fonts are another matter, as are the old OS9 TrueType fonts. These can be converted to .ttf with little trouble (several converters are available on VersionTracker) but you'll have to do that conversion before they'll work on Windows.

[K++]

Originally posted by Millennium:
.dfont format TrueType fonts are another matter, as are the old OS9 TrueType fonts. These can be converted to .ttf with little trouble (several converters are available on VersionTracker) but you'll have to do that conversion before they'll work on Windows.

Why bother? He is converting from PC to Mac and unlike MS, Apple makes it as easy as possible by supporting MANY DIFFERENT and sometimes competing technologies.

[unlinear]

Well.

.dfonts are Mac Truetype fonts without a resource fork, with only a datafork. They're not old OS 9 fonts.

[Millennium]

Originally posted by unlinear:
Well.

.dfonts are Mac Truetype fonts without a resource fork, with only a datafork. They're not old OS 9 fonts.

I am aware of that. That's why I mentioned them separately, even though in the same context (fonts which can't be copied straight across to Windows).

[starman]

Why is it that under OS X, if I double-click on a MAC TrueType font, the OS X Font Editor likes it, but it doesn't like .ttf files?

Mike

[megasad]

Originally posted by megasad:
Drop them in ~/Library/Fonts/ and they'll work just fine.

One caveat that I just remembered:

If you're installing .ttf fonts with the aim of seeing how websites made using certain fonts will look on a Mac, realise that Safari will not display such fonts as bold, even if it is specified in the HTML / CSS.

Nearly all other OS X browsers (Chimera, iCab, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera, but not Lynx or OmniWeb) seem to understand that a .ttf font, when bold, just needs to look a little thicker. Safari ignores the bold, and instead of using the default thickness will revert to the base font (of the browser, not the page) instead.

This has probably affected no-one save me, but I've submitted it as a bug nonetheless...

As an example:

http://www.megasad.com/archive/splash/19990925_promise/

That page uses a font called Bradley Hand ITC, and if you don't have said font installed, it uses Times New Roman. If any of you have Bradley Hand ITC installed, open that page in the browsers mentioned and you'll see what I mean. For those that don't, download it and stick it in your ~/Library/Fonts/ folder to see what I mean.

[Edit: For those of you using Safari, it downloads the above font as bradhitc.txt for some reason, rather than bradhitc.ttf, as it is in my webspace and as it needs to be to work. Change the extension (from .txt to ttf,) and all will be well].]