[XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

[Tim Arnold]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Michiel Kamermans <
pomax at nihongoresources.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
>
>  Yes, it's Font Book, the mac app. And you're right, the font files were 0
>> byte files.
>>
>> With your help and Michiel's, I finally figured out that I had bought
>> TrueType and needed OpenType. A quick trip to buy the opentype version of
>> URW's Lucida Handwriting and my linux server is business. unzipped the file
>> on the shared webserver into the user's local ~/.fonts directory and
>> everything works.
>>
>>
> Hmm, but TrueType fonts should not be a problem for XeTeX... 0-byte fonts,
> of course, would be =)
>
> When a foundry sells both TrueType and OpenType versions of the same font,
> it just means the first is an OpenType font with TrueType outlines -- these
> started as the standard windows format, use quadratic bezier for curves, and
> allows either outline or 'other glyphs' as building blocks. The curves are
> not as precise as type2, but need less coordinates, too -- and the second is
> an OpenType font with type2 outlines -- an update and rewrite of adobe's
> type1 format, which defines curves in terms of cubic bezier, meaning more
> data, but allows any series of outline instruction as subroutine by any
> number of glyphs, making the fonts drastically smaller.
>
> Both are understood by XeTeX (with or without fontspec).
>
> - Mike
>
>
> Thanks for that explanation Mike.
>From what I can see, the original font would have worked on linux just as it
does for mac, but I did not understand how to transfer the files. FontBook
on the mac exported the fonts to a directory that has a strange
structure--the files seem to be 0 byte files and of course that's what I
transferred to the linux box and hence my failures.
I found this page that explains it:
http://fondu.sourceforge.net/

While I may have wasted the $20 on new OpenType font, I did learn a lot
(more than I wanted to) about my mac, xelatex and linux.
thanks,
--Tim Arnold
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