Finally got around to breaking the suitcase packages into TTFs, and it worked!
I used fontforge (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/) instead of fondu: for this kind of thing, a GUI is much easier for me to deal with. So I opened them up individually and used the 'Generate fonts' feature to export to TTFs.
Thanks again!
jiho wrote:
On 2007-February-02 , at 19:40 , marc0047 wrote:
A newbie here trying to understand fonts in Inkscape on Mac OS X (10.4.6):
Basic fonts like Arial, Georgia, and Verdana are not showing up with their entire families in the Text and Font box.
Arial, for example, doesn't show up, but 'Arial Black', 'Arial Hebrew', 'Arial Narrow', and 'Arial Rounded MT Bold' does.
In another example, Georgia does show up, but its other family members, such as italic, bold, and bold italic, are not present.
Anyone have tips on solving this issue?
As mentioned by somebody else, the font management in Inkscape is done by Pango and is not directly controlled by Inkscape. On OS X, part of the problem is that mac fonts are in .dfont or .suit format which is not handled correctly by Pango and the effect is what you see: only part of the family is showing up (eg. you only Arial Regular and not Arial Bold, Arial Italics etc.). The only solution I found to solve part of the problem is converting all those fonts to .ttf format which is well supported by Pango. In fact .dfont and .suit are just some kind of "bags" which contains all variants of a font, in ttf format (eg. Arial.dfont contains ArialRegular.ttf, ArialBold.ttf, ArialItalics.ttf etc.) plus some kerning information I think. To break .dfont and .suit into their .ttf constituents you need to use fondu from the command line. Fondu can be downloaded there: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=39411&package_id=31577&release_id=362553 or obtained via fink and darwinports. It's simple to use as long as a terminal does not frighten you. The only thing you must be careful about is that you will end up with two versions of each font (the one in the dfont bundle and the .ttf one) and you should disable or remove one of those. disabling fonts is done via FontManager.app.
Hope that helps.
JiHO
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