Re: [Freetype] Problems with Mac dfont

[Steve Hartwell]

On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:59 AM, Steve Dekorte wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2004, at 6:31 AM, Pavel Studený wrote:
> > I'm trying to use freetype 2.1.5 (the latest version I've seen) on 
> > MacOS X
> > 10.2 Jaguar. The function FT_Load_Glyph (called by FT_Load_Char) 
> > doesn't
> > work with the dfont, even when I copied the Courier.dfont to a Windows
> > machine and tried it there.
>
> Apple's dfonts work for me with freetype on OSX 10.3. Maybe dfont file 
> format uses resource forks (which wouldn't get copied properly to 
> Windows)?

A .dfont is a plain file, so it can be copied to Windows intact, but 
its contents are in Apple's resource-fork format, which is a fairly 
complex structure enclosing one or more resources, including 'sfnt' 
font faces.

I would expect FT_New_Face() to return an error fairly early in the 
open process, since the first block of a .dfont file doesn't look like 
any kind of font format.  Are you checking for error returns? ;-)

Steve Hartwell
http://stevehartwell.home.comcast.net/proj/fontinspector