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1. MAC WILL NOT OPEN FONT SUITCASE FILES MAC OS X
2. MAC WILL NOT OPEN FONT SUITCASE FILES CODE

If I drag it into Suitcase Fusion, it sees the. You can also drop the misnamed font into a Fonts folder and OS X will accept it. Font Book will still recognize it's a TrueType font and not a Type 1 PostScript suitcase file. suit extension, but it depends on what font manager you're using whether or not it will recognize the font that way.

MAC WILL NOT OPEN FONT SUITCASE FILES MAC OS X

You were told that Mac OS X does not use. Not sure why you responded to a two and half year old topic, but okay. ttc to the name, the OS and any font manager then tries to find the data in the data fork. What's happening in that case is Mac legacy TT fonts have all of the data in the resource fork. Either is technically correct (it is a TrueType font), but that's the only similarity. A Mac legacy suitcase TrueType font is not built the same as a.

It's trying to parse the data according to what the extension says it is, and nothing lines up.

MAC WILL NOT OPEN FONT SUITCASE FILES CODE

Suitcase Fusion 5 tosses this on the screen when I change the Type code to the wrong one:Ĭhanging the extension to something obviously wrong, like. The file is still a Mac legacy TrueType font. It's recognizing the LWFN code, but the data structure of course doesn't match. However, if you do something silly like change the Type code to LWFN (the outline portion of a PST1 set), then neither Font Book, or any other font manager knows what to do with it. It's already a suitcase file, with a Type code of FFIL (the Creator code is mostly irrelevant). You can get away with that because you haven't really changed anything. suit extension when I was creating suitcase files for TrueType fonts. None of them, nor the system itself will load outline fonts from a Type 1 PostScript font without the matching suitcase of screen fonts present.Īlthough I believe I *have* used the. That's not a problem with Font Book, Suitcase or other font manager. You can see the fonts, but they will not load. They also must be in the same folder.Ģ) The suitcase of bitmap fonts will work alone, but output will be terrible since the system will print the fonts using the 72 dpi screen fonts in the suitcase if the outline portions are missing.ģ) Having only the outline fonts will not work.

The rest are the outline printer fonts.ġ) The files for a Type 1 PostScript font must have both the screen and printer fonts for a given set in order to work. The first file which I highlighted in green is the font suitcase of bitmap screen fonts. One file is a suitcase containing all of the low res bitmap screen fonts. You need the matching printer font(s) that go with it. That would be the screen font suitcase of a Type 1 PostScript font.