User`s manual

Conversion Process
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P C to Ma c i nt o s h Co nv er s i o n
The following key points are important when PC fonts are converted to
Macintosh format:
1.Only Macintosh font files have a resource-based structure.
2. Fonts that belong to a font family have to be united in a Macintosh font
suitcase structure.
3. Type 1 font files on the Macintosh stay separate from the font suitcase
files and are linked to the Macintosh font resources using name
reference methods, similarly to the implementation on the PC
platform.
4. Type 1 fonts on the Macintosh need to have at least one accompanying
bitmap font file (NFNT resource) for each font style.
5. Encoding, even for the Latin fonts, is different on Macintosh and PC.
6. Most PC fonts are encoded using Unicode, but in some cases simulated
encodings are used.
In order to simplify things we describe only OpenType TT/ TrueType to
TrueType and Type 1 to Type 1 conversions in this section. The differences
of conversion between TrueType and Type 1 formats are described later in
the
TrueType<->Type 1 Conversion section. OpenType PS format is discussed in
the separate
OpenType Fonts section.
When TransType converts fonts to Macintosh format, it saves them in
MacBinary or BinHex files. You may choose what format to use in the
General/Font Files Naming Page of the Preferences dialog: