Re: [Devel] Re: Another approach to mac fonts...

[George Williams]

> Actually, the code is needed :)  This should allow other platforms 
> to, as you say, open up Mac .dfont files.  I'm not so sure it should 
> be special cased for Mac only; it probably should be made available 
> to all platforms, such that if you pass in a font file with a .dfont 
> extension, now Freetype can read it.  So you could conceivable copy a 
> Mac .dfont file to a PC or other Unix box and use it with Freetype.  
> Hence its utility.
No, you misunderstand.

The code protected by #ifdef FT_MACINTOSH within the #ifndef 
FT_MACINTOSH has the sole function of opening the resource fork of a 
file on Mac OS/X. The code which handles dfont files works on the data 
fork and is not controled by the #ifdef FT_MACINTOSH, it will already 
have been executed.