[OS X TeX] t1unmac on Lion

[James Mingo]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Michael Sharpe wrote:

>
> On Jan 11, 2012, at 8:51 AM, James Mingo wrote:
>
> > I am trying to produce pfb versions of some old Frutiger
> > fonts using texlive2011 and the tool t1unmac from t1utils.
> >
> > The font information in the Mac version is in a resource
> > fork, hence the reason for the FrutiBla/rsrc part. This
> > command has always worked for me in the past (i.e. before
> > Lion). As you can see from below it no longer works because
> > t1unmac thinks FrutiBla/rsrc is specifying a directory as
> > opposed to a fork.
> >
> > jam[Mac Version] ls
> > FrutiBla*    FrutiBol*    FrutiIta*    FrutiLigIta*  FrutiUltBla*
> > FrutiBlaIta* FrutiBolIta* FrutiLig*    FrutiRom*     Frutiger*
> > jam[Mac Version] t1unmac -r FrutiBla/rsrc pfrc8a.pfb
> > t1unmac: FrutiBla/rsrc: Not a directory
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong or has something changed so that
> > t1unmac doesn't work any more?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jamie Mingo
> >
>
> Fondu also fails under Lion, with much the same error message. It seems to be necessary to convert each PostScript LWFN to macbinary format first. Eg,
>
> macbinary encode AJenIta
>
> which will create AJenIta.hqx, and you can then run
>
> t1unmac AJenIta.hqx ajenita.pfb
>
> Another Lion issue--copying using the Finder can destroy resource forks.
>
> Michael
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After digging a little further I can now answer my question.
The syntax that works now is

t1unmac -r pfrc8a/..namedfork/rsrc pfrc8a.pfb

instead of

t1unmac -r pfrc8a/rsrc pfrc8a.pfb

Jamie Mingo

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