Re: mac font files

[Just van Rossum]

At 3:16 PM -0700 31-07-2000, John Camera wrote:
>I am working a program that will hopefully extract the
>glyph outlines of truetype fonts in order to create 3d
>titling effects, and I'm trying to do this using
>Freetype.
>Everything seems great, except that when creating a
>face object, I need to pass in a .ttf font file, and
>on the mac such files dont seem to exist.
>Is there a way to use the built-in mac font files for
>creating face objects in Freetype?
>Any response would be greatly appreciated.
>Thank you!

The current FT2 snapshot contains support for Mac fonts (TT as well as T1).

FT1.x also contains Mac support for TT fonts in suitcases, but I haven't
really used it.

Just