Re: Can't get Mac TT fonts to show up

[hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:

>The following revelation escaped Richard Sherman's lips:
>> 
>> When I put the disk in my machine, the files show up in the finderas an
>> "unknown" file type.  What gives??

>    Pointless doesn't care what the file type is.  It will automatically
>change it to $C8/$0001 when you first load it in.

It has been my experience that, while Pointless will certainly convert and use
TrueType fonts resident on a Mac disk, the Finder won't display them with the
TrueType icon unless they exist on a ProDOS disk.

Well, that has been MY experience...

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