[Fontforge-users] Mac CID Fonts.

[Paul-Kenji C. <pkc@F1-Photo.com>]

Hello,

I have recently been trying to convert some of our old Japanese mac fonts
(sadly not available in ttf/otf) and so far have no managed to convert them to anything usable.

The fonts of course come in traditional ffil style, with ressource forks.
The easy part was getting them as dfonts.
Using fondu produces .ttf files(which dont look like ttfs to me) that wont open in anything
but mac os itself(cid type 0?)
These CID Type 0 font files(which I have also obtained by creating a pdf including the font
and then using a tool to extract the pdf fonts as fontforge's pdf opening feature did not
work properly) do not seem to behave well at all with fontforge, sometimes segfaulting,
other times importing only a few glyphs in the wrong place.(The only exception
being only producing the ascii subset of the font when generating a pdf containing it
and then extracting the resulting font from the pdf)

I have put up one of the smaller ones at: http://91.121.88.169/Various/FontForge/
(dfont file, and the ttf generated by fondu)

Thanks in advance for any answer,

PK Cahier