On Windows, each Type-1 font is contained in 2 files: font-name.pfb (the font outlines) and font-name.pfm (the font metrics, kerning, etc)
You can see some platform-depended differences of Type-1 fonts here: In fact we have already added support for Windows Type-1 fonts but I have a real trouble to find the required information to handle Mac OS Type-1 fonts. Our product currently supports OpenType (OTF) and TrueType (TTF) fonts and we are about to add support for Postscript Type 1 (PS1) fonts. When we switched from Qt4 internal font rendering to freetype2, the product performance increased by about 300% while the probability of an app-crash due to a bad font is lowered from 1:10.000 to 1:200.000. Gee, Microsoft wanting to dominate the computer system? What a weird concept! He he.I'm working on an Font Identification tool which runs natively on both Windows XP/7/Vista and Mac OS X and needs to perform high-speed quality rendering of Outline fonts.Īs we needed high performance & multi-platform developing environment, we choose a Qt4 / C++ combination and we use freetype2 for font rendering.īy the way, I'm really impressed from the stability, performance & code quality of the freetype2 library and I highly recommend it! These programs just take 10 times as long to load when I have Suitcase running. The only other glitch I have experienced is with Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel in particular) because they have their own "font optimization" protocols that conflict with Suitcase. No more loading all the fonts you never use just to open documents. Suitcase can be very tempermental, but if you use the FontDoctor software with it, it's really a godsend. Before I did this I could see the Optima font on my laptop but not use it. I had copied everything from my iMac home computer to the laptop except the Type 1 font for Optima.
I had a project I wanted to work on on my laptop and the ONE font I wanted, Optima, wasn't working. Be careful because you may end up with tons of fonts you can't use, but as long as you repair any damaged fonts you need, they should still be available to you. What might help too is to run FontDoctor (comes with the X1 Suitcase program download) to locate missing or damaged fonts.
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