On 5 December 2012 21:59, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > >>steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>on 2012-12-05 12:50 Mark Roberts wrote >>>> How can I check the embeddability of a font on a Mac? >>> >>>at the most basic level, assuming the font is already installed, open Font >>>Book >>>and select the font; the circle-i item in the toolbar will show you "info" >>>including an Embeddable line; all the fonts i looked at say "Yes", so i can't >>>tell how much detail there is when the answer is a "partial" yes >>> >>>let me know if that's not sufficient and i'll find you a good free tool (i'm >>>a >>>dormant font ninja) >> >>Yeah, that's all I've been able to find and it's too general: It's >>very important to know what level of embeddability you're getting! >>Something that reads the "ft_fsType" bits is what I really need. > > I just confirmed the behaviour I suspected. I copied three fonts with > different embeddability settings from my Windows machine to my Mac. > The Info in Mac showed all three as having the same value on the > "Embeddable" line ("yes"). I need a more detailed assessment than > that.
OSX seems to come with the freetype libraries already installed. Is this CLI front end to that library any use? http://code.google.com/p/freetype-py/ -- Eric -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
