[cw-discuss] PostScript fonts in Crossover Linux bottle

[Francois Gouget]

I'm passing on an interesting discovery that Steve reported to me.

Steve Gutreuter wrote:
[...]
> First, thank you for your response.  
> 
> Second, I found a way to add PostScript fonts for use by Adobe
> Illustrator 9.0. Feel free to share this information with others.  
> 
> All of my bottles are in ~/.  Apparently Adobe Illustrator 9.0 creates
> its own Type 1 font folder in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts.
> After I noticed that I simply copied the font and font metric files
> (*.pfb and *.afm) into
> ~/.cxoffice/Illustrator/drive_c/Program*Files/Common*Files/Adobe/Fonts/Reqrd/Base/
> It works perfectly.  Adobe Illustrator finds and can use all of the
> added fonts.

I guess it makes sense since, as far as I know, Windows does not support 
PostScript fonts if you don't install special software. So Illustrator 
probably included its own code to deal with them so it would not depend 
on Windows for it. That explains why it works in Wine once you make it 
the Unix PostScript font files visible to it.

Cheers,

-- 
Francois Gouget
fgouget at codeweavers.com