Re: Mac Fonts

[Arun A Tharuvai <aatharuv@mit.edu>]

In Debian, you might want to try using pfaedit to convert macintosh
truetype fonts to Windows. It's primarily a font editor but can also
import from and export to a fair number of outline font formats. I
personally have had mixed results when importing Macintosh fonts.

Arun

dbalder@pacbrands.com.au writes:

> >Hello,
> 
> >How can I installed some Mac fonts on my x86 Linux Box ?
> 
> >Thanks
> 
> >Yogesh
> 
> Mac fonts are not any different than those ttf fonts in Windows but
> anyway...
> 
> 1. Use ttfconverter (a handy Macintosh utility that should still be
> folating around the cyberspace) to convert Macintosh true type fonts
> to ttf and install them as usual.
> 
> I do not know of *nix equivalent to this utility but I am assuming
> someone made it available. You need to convert ttf fonts on Mac to
> ttf fonts usable for Windows and work from there.  As far as old mac
> bitmap fonts go, I'm afraid I can't help you there and I don't know
> if it can be done at all...
> 
> Of course, you will need to enable true type fonts as usual
> (information is available, google and ye shall find...)...
> 
> 
> Davor