If it is a Mac TrueType font, I can convert it to one or more Windows TrueType fonts (.ttf) for you. rw-rw-r- 1 root admin 346937 /Library/Fonts/BankGothic/.namedfork/rsrc To specifically target the resource fork, you append /.namedfork/rsrc to the filename as in the following example: ls -la /Library/Fonts/BankGothic/.namedfork/rsrc This shows that the file is empty (has a file size of 0). For example: ls -la 1 root admin 0 /Library/Fonts/BankGothic

Note that by default, terminal command will only act on the data fork part of files. If this returns 0, the file is most likely not a TrueType font. What this does is return the number of times 'sfnt' is found in the resource fork of the file in question. To try to figure out if the Mac Font Suitcase is a TrueType font, you can use the following command: grep -c sfnt /Library/Fonts/BankGothic/.namedfork/rsrc The only type of conversion I could imagine using command line tools would be converting from a resource-fork-based Font Suitcase to a Datafork TrueType font (.dfont), and possibly from a Mac TrueType to a Windows TrueType font (basically you'd need to extract the 'sfnt' resource entries). I'm not aware of command-line font converters for the Mac. Otherwise, the font suitcase can represent a TrueType font, which compared to a 'PostScript Type 1 Font Suitcase', is truly self-contained. Normally, font suitcases that hold bitmap font data are only one half of the font to be usable you need to have the additional PostScript Outline font files (these will have an LWFN icon). Windows recognized and installed those two files with no problem.But they won’t appear at all in Adobe apps like InDesign.Font Suitcases can potentially hold 2 different kinds of fonts: bitmap fonts and TrueType fonts. Using an online conversion site, I converted a couple of the typefaces to OpenType.

They also don’t have a file extension on the Mac, so I‘m not sure which extension the should use in Windows.Īnother example: Helvetica Neue worked fine in Mac as a TrueType font. When I try to even copy those font files to my PC, the size of each file reads “0 kb.” So, I can‘t even install them in Windows, much less use them in apps. But the ”new” fonts don’t always install or work properly.Ĭase in point: I have the Univers font family in PostScript on my Mac, where it worked with no problem. There are some tools online that convert file formats so they can be used on different operating systems and I tried some. However, I also have many older fonts that are in other formats which don′t transition as easily, such as PostScript or TrueType. So, the fonts I have that are OpenType seem to be ready to use on the new system. Font files that are in the OpenType format are compatible with both operating systems. I still, of course, have a need to use the (many) fonts I used for years on my old system. I recently switched from an Apple Mac system to Windows 11.

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