Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font Problems on OS X

On 06/06/2012 04:00 PM, Andy Theuninck wrote:
> > I think fonts are completely handled via a link to the OS,  so perhaps
> > you might try checking fontbook and making sure that the fonts are
> > indeed available to the system as OSX can sometimes be peckish about fonts.
> There are indeed in fontbook, under both computer and user.
There was talk about using OTF formatted fonts with Mac.

I was wondering why OSX is still using Type-1 fonts with the more modern 
TTF and OTF formats, plus a few newer ones that MS and other have been 
trying to push.

Is there any advantage to using Type-1 fonts over the other two formats, 
with OSX?

It there a way to replace the "problem" Type-1 fonts with TTF or OTF, or 
use a 99.9% similar font as a replacement font?

In my semi-private collection of fonts [over 100,000 files], most likely 
I would have a 98% or 99%+ similar non-Adobe font as a replacement for 
the Adobe fonts in the collection.  I think that, if you do not count 
the specialty fonts, over 25% of the serif fonts are 99% similar to the 
other serif fonts and half of what is left is at least 80% similar to 
each other.  The same numbers could be true for the san-serif fonts.

I started collecting for a font project and later I started looking for 
as many free fonts as I can to replace the paid fonts in my collection - 
like finding free replacements for the Adobe collection from pre-2006.

So, with all the fonts out there and the use of TTF and OTF fonts, is 
there any reason for using Type-1 fonts?  Even Adobe has most, if not 
all, of their fonts in OTF format.

I just found that having 2 or 3 files to define 1 font does not make 
sense anymore.

If OSX requires it, well, I am not a Mac person since I put my first PC 
together from a kit at a cost of less than a 5th that of the Apple 
systems out at the same time.  Actually, I worked with the original Mac 
system at a college when they just started coming on to the market.  But 
I went PC when I could bey a system due to cost and never worked much on 
a Mac since then and not at all since 2000.

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