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HELP: OS 9 font to OS X font conversion?
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If you're using one partition, move your OS 9 fonts into:
[Hard Drive]/System Folder/Fonts/
then restart apps as necessary. No "conversion" is needed if you just want to use those OS 9 fonts in OS X apps.
[Hard Drive]/System Folder/Fonts/
then restart apps as necessary. No "conversion" is needed if you just want to use those OS 9 fonts in OS X apps.
Actually
The best place to put new fonts for use by Mac OS X is either of the following:
/Library/Fonts (for everyone)
/<home folder>/Library/Fonts (for the current user only)
Mac OS X recognizes Mac OS 9 "dual forked" fonts and font suitcases, Windows TrueType .ttf fonts, Mac OS X flat file .dfont files, OpenType fonts and Type 1 Postscript fonts.
To get an app to recognize newly added fonts simply quit and re-launch the application.
In Mac OS X 10.3 you can use Font Book (in the Applications folder) to install fonts, preview them and activate individual fonts or deactivate duplicates/older versions.
Mac OS X Font PDF from Apple.
The best place to put new fonts for use by Mac OS X is either of the following:
/Library/Fonts (for everyone)
/<home folder>/Library/Fonts (for the current user only)
Mac OS X recognizes Mac OS 9 "dual forked" fonts and font suitcases, Windows TrueType .ttf fonts, Mac OS X flat file .dfont files, OpenType fonts and Type 1 Postscript fonts.
To get an app to recognize newly added fonts simply quit and re-launch the application.
In Mac OS X 10.3 you can use Font Book (in the Applications folder) to install fonts, preview them and activate individual fonts or deactivate duplicates/older versions.
Mac OS X Font PDF from Apple.