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dfontifier 2.0.1 for Mac

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Price: Free
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.2/10.3/10.3.9/10.4 PPC
Date added: May 09, 2004
Total Downloads: 113
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Publisher's description

From Mark Douma :

dfontifier is an application that can convert Mac OS X-style Datafork TrueType fonts (.dfonts) into ordinary Mac OS 9-style TrueType fonts and vice versa.

This may be useful when sending jobs to service bureaus that are still in OS 9.

Also, while most font managers I've seen, including Alsoft's MasterJuggler, Insider Software's FontAgent Pro, and Extensis's Suitcase or Font Reserve, have the ability to "bridge the gap" between the OS X native and Classic environments by making fonts you've activated available to both environments, they, as well as OS X itself, seem to be limited when it comes to data fork-based fonts. For example, if you have AmericanTypewriter.dfont installed in your Classic "/System Folder/Fonts/" folder or enabled in your font manager, it'll be available to native OS X applications, but since Classic doesn't know how to make use of data fork-based .dfonts, OS X or your font manager can't make it available to Classic. dfontifier can help solve this problem by allowing you to convert your .dfonts into regular resource fork-based TT fonts. That way, when you install your fonts, or use your font manager to enable your fonts, (including what would be many default, Apple-installed .dfonts), you can be certain that you're using the same exact font set in the native OS X environment as you are in the Classic environment.

What's new in this version:

Worked around an AppleScript bug affecting the System Events application within OS X v.10.2.8 specifically, where it would fail to set the file type and creator type of converted fonts, resulting in generic-looking documents rather than usable fonts.
A couple of minor user-interface tweaks.

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