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ONG · Dec 2, 2006, 09:13 PM

how do i do this? I have a good collection and would love to have them running on this new laptop. help.

CharlesS · Dec 2, 2006, 09:33 PM

Just drag them into /Library/Fonts or ~/Library/Fonts.

ONG · Dec 2, 2006, 09:57 PM

if i look at the fonts folder inside the system folder the fonts got a font icon and the appropriate extension (otf or ttf) but the ones i moved from my 8.6 has this icon that looks like a grey screen... looks like a matrix screen.

ONG · Dec 2, 2006, 10:15 PM

i tried using font book to add them but it's not working. dn't seem to even see them. if anyone know pls help. really appreciate this since i'm pretty much a newbie on OSX even when i know 8.6 so well.

WJMoore · Dec 3, 2006, 02:31 AM

Try renaming them with a ttf extension.

CharlesS · Dec 3, 2006, 02:51 AM

When I drag fonts from my OS 9 folder into my /Library/Fonts folder, they just work. No renaming the file, no adding extensions. Even if the font file has no extension, just try dragging it into that folder and logging out/back in again. It should work. If not, please tell us exactly what fonts you are trying to import.

ONG · Dec 3, 2006, 03:15 AM

ok i will give that a try tomorrow. thanks.

WizOSX · Dec 3, 2006, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by CharlesS

When I drag fonts from my OS 9 folder into my /Library/Fonts folder, they just work. No renaming the file, no adding extensions. Even if the font file has no extension, just try dragging it into that folder and logging out/back in again. It should work. If not, please tell us exactly what fonts you are trying to import.
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Are you doing this on an Intel Mac? If not, this may be the difference, since you have Classic installed--obviously the OS is different, with some different rules, since the Intel Macs cannot have an OS9 folder. Also, tomeviewer won't run on them, etc.

Art Vandelay · Dec 3, 2006, 10:28 AM

If you're using a PC formatted drive (hard drive, flash drive, etc) to move them from your old Mac with OS 8.6 to your new laptop, then that's the problem. Most flash drives, etc come PC formatted out of the box. Classic fonts are dual fork files and PC formatted drives can't handle dual fork files.

CharlesS · Dec 3, 2006, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by WizOSX

Are you doing this on an Intel Mac? If not, this may be the difference, since you have Classic installed--obviously the OS is different, with some different rules, since the Intel Macs cannot have an OS9 folder. Also, tomeviewer won't run on them, etc.

It shouldn't matter whether it's on an Intel or PPC Mac. No Classic code needs to run in order to use an OS 9 font. Intel Macs are still capable of reading resource-fork files.

I think this guy's probably nailed it, though:

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay

If you're using a PC formatted drive (hard drive, flash drive, etc) to move them from your old Mac with OS 8.6 to your new laptop, then that's the problem. Most flash drives, etc come PC formatted out of the box. Classic fonts are dual fork files and PC formatted drives can't handle dual fork files.

Actually, OS X and OS <=9 are both able to copy resource-fork files onto a PC-formatted disk and preserve the information. Unfortunately, they both use different methods to do so, so OS X won't see the resource forks if OS 9 was used to put the file on the disk. After reading your problem again, I'll bet this is what happened. The solution would be to compress the files with StuffIt on the OS 8.6 Mac and put the StuffIt archive on the PC-formatted disk. Then, decompress the StuffIt archive on the OS X Mac, and you should get some fonts that work.

ONG · Dec 4, 2006, 02:42 PM

no i'm not using a PC to transfer between the 2. i have the 2 computer connected on a network w/ the MBP (intel) sharing a folder to the old PM running 8.6.

WizOSX · Dec 4, 2006, 04:40 PM

It looks like the formatting of the media may be the key. I used a USB floppy drive on my old G3 desktop, copied the Textile font (in OSX) onto a Mac formatted floppy, hooked the USB drive up to my Intel iMac and bingo, it worked.

WizOSX · Dec 4, 2006, 04:44 PM

Sortof related question. In the process of doing all this I decided to format an old HD to OS9 on my 867 Quicksilver that I bought last fall. The machine came with no disks so I put Tiger on it. It has never run OS9 directly. I own a copy of OS9 (9.0). The CD will not boot the Quicksilver since I assume it is not quite new enough version of OS9 (even though the CD says 9.0.4, I'm not sure it is). Is there an easy way to format the HD in a version of OS9 that will work?

ONG · 07:27 PM

ok my USB drive was formatted MSDOS.... so i formatted using the MBP and now it shows the font icons (recognice it). great! thanks to all that help. i guess i just use font book or fontexplorer to turn it on/off according to my needs. right?