Am 2008-03-03 um 17:44 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
For I never tried XeTeX I don't know if PS Type 1 and 3 will work. They do. But the mac Type1 fonts come in some weird format for which Jonathan hasn't written support in xdvipdfmx (yet). With xdv2pdf they work OK.
As explained, that weird format is the traditional Mac resource fork font. MacOS "Classic" stored all executable stuff in the resource fork, besides icons etc.; the data fork of a font file ist just empty. This concept has its merits - you can edit a lot of resources, like GUI elements, messages, icons etc. with a resource editor. I completely reworked and translated the GUI of a program once ;-) That's not possible with normal Windows or other binaries. The application structure of OSX, inherited from NextStep, has similar features. I like to poke around in applications ;-)
Isn't it possible to use traditional TeX-installed fonts with XeTeX? Yes, it is. But the font that Roland has bought and is trying to use in XeTeX comes in two flavors: one for mac (that's the one he has) and one for Windows.
Of course, that's why I asked - I've a lot of "Windows" fonts installed in my texmf-local tree and I wouldn't like to enable them all for the OS (too much memory).
- or to patch ConTeXt to use xdv2pdf instead of xdvipdfmx + rewrite a bunch of definitions that load Latin Modern (they should not be loaded since xdv2pdf doesn't support "traditional TeX-installed fonts")
Since there are OpenType LM fonts now, one could just install them for the OS. BTW I'm just typesetting a magazine in InDesign with LMSans as body font (and Adobe Garamond Pro for the headlines).
- or to convert the font to some other format (officially forbidden, I guess)
normally it is, with commercial fonts Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)