Truetype font / filestream problems ?

Roel Wuyts rwuyts at vub.ac.be
Fri Sep 8 14:28:28 UTC 2000


OK. I found the solution.... I used the font suitcase (a grouping of fonts),
and not the actual font file. Using the font itself works fine. Thanks for
the replies.

> Roel Wuyts wrot:
>>Recently I tried to use TTFontReader to read and/or install a true type
>>font. However, this keeps failing with some 'subscript out of bounds
>>exception'. Of course, this also means that the 'open true type font' menu
>>item gives the same problems. I tested this with several true type fonts on
>>my macintosh (running Mac OS 9.0.4), with Squeak 2.8 and latest 2.9: always
>>the same problems.
>>...
>
> Seems like a mac specific problem. I have no problems reading TTF's on
> windows machines with 2.9a.
>
> Torsten


> Mac TTF fonts are stored in the resource fork and not recogniced from
> Squeak. If you
> look at the file size it says 0 bytes. Windows TTF font on the other
> hand work fine.
>
> Karl
>



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