Re: Proposed patch (Was: Font problems with 2.5.27 on MacOS)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Matthias Neeracher wrote:
> Actually, we're not just dealing with dfonts here. Verdana, for 
> instance, is a tradtional MacOS font, as far as I can tell. Also, I 
> think that some font files may have the pfa font already embedded, so 
> going through the ttf version may entail a loss of quality.

Gotit! Verdana is really a normal TTF, but it's stored inside a mac 
resource fork.  Reading it with Fondu will extract a TTF, which can then 
be embedded as a Type42 using ly:ttf->pfa

> It's slightly messier because
> you have to fish out the right ttf file. Also, lilypond then needs to 

I don't understand, you'd have to figure out the right TTF file with FF 
too? (You have to figure out whether to use the bold, normal, italic or 
bolditalic variant


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