Re: [ft] cannot open some fonts on mac and linux

[mpsuzuki]

Hi,

I'm current maitainer of MacOS specific part of
FreeType2, sorry for your inconvenience.

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:25:01 +0200
Riccardo Cohen <address@hidden> wrote:
>MAC
>---
>some basic fonts (/Library/Fonts/Arial) are not open, and I have about 
>50% of font files that fail to open with FT_New_Face(). It seems that it 
>is all mac font suitcases... which are used by all native softwares.

Recent FreeType2 does not enable the support code
for suitcase font format (to avoid binary incompatibility
troubles by unexpected QuickDraw framework).
Please try "configure --with-old-mac-fonts".

Regards,
mpsuzuki