Re: [Devel] Mac osx problem

[Torrey Lyons]

At 11:16 AM -0700 5/2/03, Timothy Prepscius wrote:
> This could potentially be slightly off topic.  But........
>
> I am trying to load the font "Arial" on a Mac OSX computer.
>
> I first use FT_GetFile_From_Mac_Name- this successfully finds a valid
> FSSpec.
> I then use an fsspec2path I found and revised to convert to a file system
> path:
>     The resulting path is "/Library/Fonts/Arial"
>
> This is seemingly correct, since there is an Arial file in the
> "/Library/Fonts" directory.
> Only its length is zero.

Unless it is broken the file is not really zero length, it only looks 
that way. "ls -s" only shows the data fork. In this case 
/Library/Fonts/Arial has everything in the resource fork. Looking at 
this file in the Finder should reveal it is 317,313 bytes long.

--Torrey