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Font Formats and File Types

The font formats and file types supported for rendering, previewing, and printing documents in Mac OS X are:

• Macintosh TrueType font suitcases and data-fork (.dfont) suitcases. A data fork font suitcase contains the resources associated with a Macintosh font, including 'FOND' and 'NFNT' resources. The only difference is that the information is stored in a data fork rather than a resource fork. However, the data fork suitcase format is not the same as the format used for a data fork TrueType font used in the Windows OS.

• Windows TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) outline/bitmap fonts

• PostScript OpenType Roman outline/bitmap fonts

• PostScript OpenType CID Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese outline/bitmap fonts

• PostScript Type 1 outline font with Macintosh bitmap font suitcases (LWFN)

• Macintosh PostScript Type 1 enabled font suitcases ('sfnt')

• Macintosh PostScript Type 1 CID enabled font suitcases ('sfnt'/CID)

• Multiple Master PostScript fonts (available starting with Mac OS X version 10.2). There are two types available—LWFN and 'sfnt'.

See the following resources for more details:

• TrueType reference manual

  http://developer.apple.com/fonts

• The Adobe Type Technology website, for information on the OpenType specification, Multiple Master fonts, and CID-keyed fonts:

  http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/opentype/index.html

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