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Font-Related Resources

Font-related resource types (FOND, NFNT, sfnt, and so forth) are in big-endian format on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers. If your application accesses font-related resource types directly, you must swap the fields of font-related resource types yourself.

The following functions from the ATS for Fonts API obtain font resources that are returned in big-endian format:

The following functions from the Font Manager API obtain font resources that are returned in big-endian format. Note that Font Manager API is based on QuickDraw technology, which was deprecated in Mac OS X v10.4.



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Last updated: 2007-02-26

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