[XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 13.12.2010 um 17:55 schrieb Joachim Trinkwitz:

> On my MacBook, Lucida Handwriting is located in /Library/Fonts/ 
> Microsoft, so it's supposedly provided through some MS application  
> installation. Indeed the font file is 0 bytes, because all the font  
> data is located in the so called data fork of the file.
>
> I don't know if this sort of font can be copied to or used on a  
> Linux system,

Copied, but not used.

> but there should be certain tools which can do that (maybe Apple's  
> own Font Tools, which are a freeware set of tools), without breaking  
> the license rules.


There is none. Fondu can extract the data fork and save it in a real  
file that the font gets useful for X11 – or another system.

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