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How to use True Type PC Fonts on a Mac Running OS X?

April 26, 2017fonts Mac pc running type

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How to use True Type PC Fonts on a Mac Running OS X?

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Since Mac OS X is a flavor of Unix, one could expect that this would be the end of the fonts stored in the resource fork. Indeed, for some time, it was already possible to put PC fonts (True Type as well as Type 1) in the font folder of some Adobe applications, like Illustrator and InDesign. The drawback was that the fonts were only visible for those applications, and not from all other. To use those fonts with all applications under Mac OS X, put them in the /Library/Fonts folder if you are an administrator or /Library/Fonts folder if you are a plain user. This doesn’t work with Type 1 fonts. Mac OS X and Font Numbers One user of our MacDisk had created a TT font on the PC and had used MacDisk to convert it to a Macintosh TT file. It worked fine. This user had then the idea to install directly the PC version under Mac OS X, on the same computer, by copying the PC file. The problem is that both files were not recognized as being the same font. The solution we found wa