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Guest
Greetings!
At Beth Rosengard's suggestion, I am posting this tip in a separate
thread to make it more easily findable via search engines.
As a user who regularly needs a number of different character sets,
Unicode has the potential to be a blessing. In the past I had to collect
sets of matching fonts with different encodings (e.g., Times Ten Roman,
Times Ten CE Roman, Times Ten Cyrillic Upright, Times Ten Cyrillic A
Upright, Times Ten Greek, etc.), which was a lot of trouble. In
principle Unicode fonts can include all these character sets and much
much more (Armenian, Georgian, Korean, Arabic, etc.), but in the current
fonts provided with Mac OS X, only Lucida Grande has a fairly well
developed inventory of characters (glyphs). And that's a bulky sans
serif font, not good for serious writing for example. Even the version
of Times New Roman provided isn't very good.
My solution was to wade through the font folder in Windows XP, identify
the fonts with the best character coverage, at least in the areas I
require (which don't include Asian languages), and copy those .ttf fonts
to my Mac. I assume this is legal, since I have a proper license for the
copy of Windows I got the fonts from, and they are in no way locked down
by Microsoft. Mac OS X can use .ttf fonts with no problem, so this has
made exchanging Word documents with PC users who work with the same
languages and character sets as I do much much easier. I have no strong
opinion about the technical quality of .ttf fonts vs. Mac TT or PS Type
1; to my eye they are pretty interchangeable on paper. And there might
be other issues I haven't encountered, such as non-appearance of these
fonts in some application menus, and so forth. Your mileage may vary, as
they say.
The fonts I found it work transferring are the following:
ANTQUAB.TTF
ANTQUABI.TTF
ANTQUAI.TTF
BKANT.TTF
CENSCBK.TTF
GARA.TTF
GARABD.TTF
GARAIT.TTF
MSGEOTB1.TTF
MSGEOTB2.TTF
MSGEOTI1.TTF
MSGEOTI2.TTF
MSGEOTR1.TTF
MSGEOTR2.TTF
MSGEOTX1.TTF
MSGEOTX2.TTF
PALA.TTF
PALAB.TTF
PALABI.TTF
PALAI.TTF
SCHLBKB.TTF
SCHLBKBI.TTF
SCHLBKI.TTF
George
(Although I hide behind the anti-spam newsgroup identity of George
Nospam, I am actually George Fowler, associate professor of Slavic
linguistics at Indiana University, email gfowler AT indiana DOT edu. And
I also run Slavica Publishers, a specialty press for which the Unicode
system is someday going to fulfill its promise and ease our lives.
That's still more promise than reality at this point.)
At Beth Rosengard's suggestion, I am posting this tip in a separate
thread to make it more easily findable via search engines.
As a user who regularly needs a number of different character sets,
Unicode has the potential to be a blessing. In the past I had to collect
sets of matching fonts with different encodings (e.g., Times Ten Roman,
Times Ten CE Roman, Times Ten Cyrillic Upright, Times Ten Cyrillic A
Upright, Times Ten Greek, etc.), which was a lot of trouble. In
principle Unicode fonts can include all these character sets and much
much more (Armenian, Georgian, Korean, Arabic, etc.), but in the current
fonts provided with Mac OS X, only Lucida Grande has a fairly well
developed inventory of characters (glyphs). And that's a bulky sans
serif font, not good for serious writing for example. Even the version
of Times New Roman provided isn't very good.
My solution was to wade through the font folder in Windows XP, identify
the fonts with the best character coverage, at least in the areas I
require (which don't include Asian languages), and copy those .ttf fonts
to my Mac. I assume this is legal, since I have a proper license for the
copy of Windows I got the fonts from, and they are in no way locked down
by Microsoft. Mac OS X can use .ttf fonts with no problem, so this has
made exchanging Word documents with PC users who work with the same
languages and character sets as I do much much easier. I have no strong
opinion about the technical quality of .ttf fonts vs. Mac TT or PS Type
1; to my eye they are pretty interchangeable on paper. And there might
be other issues I haven't encountered, such as non-appearance of these
fonts in some application menus, and so forth. Your mileage may vary, as
they say.
The fonts I found it work transferring are the following:
ANTQUAB.TTF
ANTQUABI.TTF
ANTQUAI.TTF
BKANT.TTF
CENSCBK.TTF
GARA.TTF
GARABD.TTF
GARAIT.TTF
MSGEOTB1.TTF
MSGEOTB2.TTF
MSGEOTI1.TTF
MSGEOTI2.TTF
MSGEOTR1.TTF
MSGEOTR2.TTF
MSGEOTX1.TTF
MSGEOTX2.TTF
PALA.TTF
PALAB.TTF
PALABI.TTF
PALAI.TTF
SCHLBKB.TTF
SCHLBKBI.TTF
SCHLBKI.TTF
George
(Although I hide behind the anti-spam newsgroup identity of George
Nospam, I am actually George Fowler, associate professor of Slavic
linguistics at Indiana University, email gfowler AT indiana DOT edu. And
I also run Slavica Publishers, a specialty press for which the Unicode
system is someday going to fulfill its promise and ease our lives.
That's still more promise than reality at this point.)
.