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I have received a folder of fonts which I need to install on Windows. The problem is, they do not have file extensions. For each font there are two files. One of those two gives some info when opened in WordPad. On a Mac, opening up this folder shows the fonts immediately and gives the option to install. But I need them on a PC where I have Illustrator CS3.
Here is one of the font file pairs to show as an example:
File 1:
Name: ._GothaBla
Extension: None
Size: 35 KB
WordPad output: %!PS-AdobeFont-1.0: Gotham-Black 001.00
%CreationDate: 03/31/03 5:09:15 pm
And a bunch more information/gibberish.
File 2:
Name: GothaBla
Extension: None
Size: 0 KB
WordPad output: None
My question is, what are these files, and can I install them on my Windows Vista machine to use in Illustrator CS3?
Thanks!
1Yep it's a no go on renaming the file. I will see what I can do to convert or use some other workaround. – Tim Chaves – 2011-05-24T17:53:21.150
As there are two files it wouldn't be an OpenType .otf font. – paradroid – 2011-05-24T18:53:38.850
@paradroid It's conceivable that the actual file contents just are stored in the resource fork (metadata) instead of the data fork (actual file content), but are otherwise unchanged. I believe the
– Daniel Beck – 2011-05-24T19:36:08.800.dfont
file format is link that, but could be mistaken. Just to be clear: the "second file" isn't actually a separate file on Mac OS X / HFS+; it's the file's resource fork. I think the closest thing on Windows is an NTFS alternate data stream.But I remember that PostScript Type 1 fonts always came as two parts (.pfm and .pfb) on the Adobe CDs and had the ._ at the beginning of the filename. Also the suppiled info even says
%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0
– paradroid – 2011-05-24T19:53:24.283@paradroid That's because the CDs weren't HFS+ formatted. The dot-underscore file is the workaround for that, see e.g. here.
– Daniel Beck – 2011-05-24T19:55:12.737renaming the font didn't work for me, however CrossFont from @army's answer did http://superuser.com/a/436741/3197
– roman m – 2013-01-31T23:27:50.460