[XeTeX] installing mac font on linux

[Tim Arnold]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:

>
> Am 12.12.2010 um 18:56 schrieb Tim Arnold:
>
>
>  I open the font in fontbook and export the
>> font; tar/gzip the resulting directory and transfer to linux.  Maybe
>> fontbook's export converts it from a xelatex-readable format to one thats
>> not.
>>
>
> Do you mean with "fontbook" Apple's Font Book application?
>
> Is the font file a plain file or does it have a very small size, 0 bytes
> for example? Such a file needs processing, with for example fondu.
>
> Another failure on your Linux PC might be that the font still has not been
> cached in the (lib)fontconfig system – see fc-cache, fc-list, fc-match
> commands.
>
> What does the file command on your Linux PC tell you about the ulhi8a font
> file?
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>  Pete
>
Yes, it's Font Book, the mac app. And you're right, the font files were 0
byte files.

With your help and Michiel's, I finally figured out that I had bought
TrueType and needed OpenType. A quick trip to buy the opentype version of
URW's Lucida Handwriting and my linux server is business. unzipped the file
on the shared webserver into the user's local ~/.fonts directory and
everything works.

thanks for all the info and help,
--Tim Arnold
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