[tunhuang]

I'm trying to get fonts from my workplace PC (Windows2000) to my home Mac (OSX 10.2.6).

Uploaded windows fonts to personal web space (used automatic settings);
downloaded to mac, and put them in the users/library/fonts/ directory.

They all have either .TTF or .ttf extensions. Open them in XFontInfo,and get type "unknown- bitmap (PC)' " and message "no font to preview". Tried re-starting, same result.

What am I doing wrong??


cheers from downunder

tunhuang.

[KidRed]

No need to open them. You don't get font previews with ttf. I don't get prviews with most of my mac fonts. You need to use a font app or wait for panther if you want previews outside of whatever app you want to use the fonts in. X supports ttf tho. I've been gleefully using PC fonts since X beta

[tunhuang]

I did forget to say that none of the transferred fonts show up in the font list of any application. I've tried changing the extensions, and of course, no luck there. (XFontInfo is a free previewer). Should the transfers be ASCII or Binary? --I'm not really across these variables yet.

cheers

tunhuang

Originally posted by KidRed:
No need to open them. You don't get font previews with ttf. I don't get prviews with most of my mac fonts. You need to use a font app or wait for panther if you want previews outside of whatever app you want to use the fonts in. X supports ttf tho. I've been gleefully using PC fonts since X beta

[Visnaut]

If you're transporting just the raw .ttf's over ftp, then you should be using binary to transfer them (as a rule, everything but plain text files should be transferred as binary).

In any case, try zipping all the fonts you want on the PC and then transferring them that way, i think that'll save you a lot of FTP transfer hassle.

BTW, when on the PC, did you know you can access ftp directly through Windows Explorer? In any explorer window type:
ftp://user@ftphost.com/
And it'll ask you for your password and display all your files on said server as if it was a local drive. You can drag and drop between explorer windows and your ftp site as if they were simply different drives. Saves you the hassle of binary/ascii too since it decides for you. Can't wait for OS X to have such functionality (or rather, a more complete implementation thereof).

[booboo]

Dumb question: do you need to Quit your current app, and re-launch it to see newly installed fonts?