[Mac OS X TeX] Re: Installing LucidaBright family under Mac OS X?!

[Adrian Heathcote]

Thanks---this is very useful information. Just one thing though---on the 
maccentral discussion boards last night, mention was made of the recent 
upgrade (10.1.3) not supporting any fonts made or modified with 
fontographer. Moreover a senior Apple spokesman said that this would 
*not* be fixed in a later release. Where does this leave those who want 
to use Lucida Bright or Minion in TeX?

I have to say that this recent "upgrade" looks like another case of 5 
bugs removed, 10 bugs introduced. Gives a new meaning to backward 
compatibility.

Adrian Heathcote


On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 04:28 AM, Arthur Ogawa wrote:

> "David M. Wood" wrote:
>
>> I bought [Lucida Bright] several years ago for use under NeXTstep, 
>> successfully
>> modified
>> them for use on Linux, but have no idea what Mac OS X expects to be
>> installed?
>
> I am copying this email to the MacOSX-TeX mailing list, where your query
> will find better support than I alone am able to give.
>
> I know for sure that Mac OS X will acccept Type 1 fonts installed in the
> Classic system folder, which is how most of my Mac OS X fonts are now
> (because they are carry-overs from Mac OS Classic). However, things that
> worked for NextStep often continue to work for Mac OS X (you are, of
> course, already familiar with NextStep fonts).
>
> Under Mac OS Classic, a font should be installed into the System
> Folder:Fonts folder in the form of a font suitcase (file type FFIL
> containing FOND and NFNT resourses) plus the PostScript version of the
> font in a file of type LWFN (effectively the contents of the .pfa file
> in POST resources).
>
> You have the fonts in PFA and AFM files. You are looking for
>
> 1. A utility to convert PFA to LWFN. CMacTeX, version 3.6 or later, has
> a pfa2lwfn in its t1utils tool.
>
> 2. A utility to calculate FOND and NFNT resources from the PFA. This is
> the part you are missing.
>
> For the latter, I use the commercial product Fontographer for Power Mac.
> Note that Fontographer generates AFM, LWFN, and FFIL files; you will
> select out only the latter.
>
> Note also that the file name of the LWFN must be coordinated with the
> PostScript font name of the particular font. The name of the LWFN file
> created by Fontographer should be applied to the LWFN file generated by
> pfa2lwfn if the two names are not identical.
>
> Finally, note that when Fontographer opens a font for editing, it
> recalculates the hints, so please do not use a LWFN generated by
> Fontographer itself: you will lose all the beautiful hints calculated by
> Blenda Horn.
>
> Under Mac OS X, there probably is a file format for Type 1 fonts that is
> more modern than the FFIL/LWFN format of Mac OS Classic. Unfortunately,
> I really know little about this; I wish I did. I don't even know if the
> NextStep native format continues to work under Mac OS X.
>
> Also, there is a new standard for fonts, called OpenType, but here again
> my information is not good.
>
> Arthur Ogawa/TeX Consultants
>
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