<strong>But I heard something about "converting" them.
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I think this had to do with converting the flat .dfont format to using the data/resource fork format (or vice versa). Mac OS X can read both types, as well as Windows Truetype fonts. Well, I'm no expert, but OS X supports a heck of a lot of fonts. In my experience, 'Mac' and 'Windows' sections of font sites are no longer relevant under Mac OS X.
Of course, I still have trouble getting OS X to read Windows Chinese fonts.
I think this had to do with converting the flat .dfont format to using the data/resource fork format (or vice versa). Mac OS X can read both types, as well as Windows Truetype fonts. Well, I'm no expert, but OS X supports a heck of a lot of fonts. In my experience, 'Mac' and 'Windows' sections of font sites are no longer relevant under Mac OS X.
Of course, I still have trouble getting OS X to read Windows Chinese fonts.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You are very right there. Fonts under ten is a near wet dream (if only organization would be a little better). Download a Windows font, drop it in your Library's font folder (root level or user level), have a few applications open? That is okay. Launch an application you want to use that font in, and guess what? It is there and ready to go.
In Mac OS 9, you would put in your fonts folder, quit all launched applications, then launch the application and you were ready to go.
It is the little things like this in Mac OS 10 that I love so much
No idea if there is a limit, but you could use Suitcase to keep everything under control (even thougfh when adding thousands of fonts to Suitcase in OSX, the app kept crashing whenever it came across a font it didn't like!! <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> I wish there was a better font management tool for OSX!!) Not tried adding any PC fonts to Suitcase, but got a sneaking feeling they won't work...
Also, my wife is Chinese so I'd be interested to know if anyone has had any success adding PC Chinese fonts to OSX AND if anyone has the scoop on the new Chinese and Japanese typefaces available in Jaguar...
Abernaut, I've had bad experiences with 3rd party font management apps. I had ATM 4.6.2 and it crashed the system with NO extensions. And I have a truck load. This was in 9 of course. I am wondering, is there a font limit in OS X?
Other than that OS X looks like absolute heaven for fonts. I think, for example, for Chinese fonts, you just put them in the font folder in your library. But perhaps you need to install OS X choosing to have the Chinese language pack installed? Mods/smart X people, is this true, or are these "language packs" merely fonts?
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<strong>do fonts need to carbonized to work with OS X?</strong><hr></blockquote>
*blink*
No.
Also, Kickaha, is there a limit on the number of fonts OS X can have?
<strong>But I heard something about "converting" them.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think this had to do with converting the flat .dfont format to using the data/resource fork format (or vice versa). Mac OS X can read both types, as well as Windows Truetype fonts. Well, I'm no expert, but OS X supports a heck of a lot of fonts. In my experience, 'Mac' and 'Windows' sections of font sites are no longer relevant under Mac OS X.
Of course, I still have trouble getting OS X to read Windows Chinese fonts.
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I think this had to do with converting the flat .dfont format to using the data/resource fork format (or vice versa). Mac OS X can read both types, as well as Windows Truetype fonts. Well, I'm no expert, but OS X supports a heck of a lot of fonts. In my experience, 'Mac' and 'Windows' sections of font sites are no longer relevant under Mac OS X.
Of course, I still have trouble getting OS X to read Windows Chinese fonts.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You are very right there. Fonts under ten is a near wet dream (if only organization would be a little better). Download a Windows font, drop it in your Library's font folder (root level or user level), have a few applications open? That is okay. Launch an application you want to use that font in, and guess what? It is there and ready to go.
In Mac OS 9, you would put in your fonts folder, quit all launched applications, then launch the application and you were ready to go.
It is the little things like this in Mac OS 10 that I love so much
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So is there any limit to the number of fonts? I have a "heck of a lot of fonts!" 2500+!
Also, my wife is Chinese so I'd be interested to know if anyone has had any success adding PC Chinese fonts to OSX AND if anyone has the scoop on the new Chinese and Japanese typefaces available in Jaguar...
Other than that OS X looks like absolute heaven for fonts. I think, for example, for Chinese fonts, you just put them in the font folder in your library. But perhaps you need to install OS X choosing to have the Chinese language pack installed? Mods/smart X people, is this true, or are these "language packs" merely fonts?