Re: [ft] Easiest way to support very old 'typ1' fonts?

[Adam Twardoch]

Derek,

The LCDF tools from http://www.lcdf.org/type/ and Fondu from 
http://fondu.sourceforge.net/ may help to convert the fonts into plain 
PC-based Type 1 fonts.

A.

Derek Clegg wrote:
> I have a collection of very old 'typ1' fonts for the Mac.  These 
> appear to be little more than a Type1 font wrapped in an 'sfnt' 
> wrapper.  Unfortunately, Freetype doesn't appear to support this 
> format.  I have a few questions:
>     — Am I correct that Freetype doesn't support 'typ1' fonts, or have 
> I simply missed a configuration parameter somewhere?
>     — If they aren't supported, would it make sense to add support for 
> them, or are they simply too obsolete to bother with?
>     — If the latter, is there an easy way to unpackage them to get the 
> Type1 font data, so that I can treat them as standard Type1 fonts?  
> Any tools available to help?
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can offer.
>
> Derek
>
>
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